Example sentences of "i give [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Should I too give Jacob my maidservant , Zilpah , or should I give in to Rachel ? |
2 | ca n't you with all those trees up the top , I give up on it . |
3 | I give up on them . |
4 | I give up on them all . |
5 | I du n no , I 'm just , I give up on her anyway ! |
6 | I give up after an hour of civilisational water-treading , hit Store and slope off to bed . |
7 | I said yes , but I do n't think it was actually Jason Donovan , oh it was , yes , it was Jason Donovan and I 've got the paper all along , I give up in the end . |
8 | One ex-minister recalls : ‘ He would just say , ‘ if I give in to you , I will have to give in to everybody ’ , and you knew that was that . ’ |
9 | I 'm frightened of these teenagers so I give in to their demands for money . |
10 | I have tried leaving them without food but after about a week I give in to their begging . |
11 | I give in to this , since the weather 's behaving like it usually does at the seaside : drizzling all day and clearing up at night . |
12 | I give in to it . |
13 | Bishop Burnet I gave up with even more regret than the ‘ place . ’ |
14 | ‘ When the proposals failed , I gave up on the profession and have not set foot in the Institute since , but it is characteristic of Bill 's commitment that he has carried on regardless . ’ |
15 | So I gave up on the idea of girls until I was about fifteen , when I suppose my hormones calmed down a bit . |
16 | I gave up on myself . ’ |
17 | After a disastrous relationship in my early twenties in which the woman made me feel like a rapist , I gave up on the idea of sex and women . |
18 | ‘ I gave up on you in the end and bought some myself . ’ |
19 | I gave up at half a dozen , desultorily checked a few share prices and failed to read more than two paragraphs of an article on the gilt-edged market . |
20 | Now that my South African ban has been lifted , I want to reclaim the No 1 spot I gave up in 1989 and it will be interesting to see how Tuffers reacts to the challenge . |
21 | ‘ I gave off to him about not brushing his hair . |
22 | After about a year I gave in to the pull and discovered that fatherhood has made me a much more serious person . |
23 | I gave in to that later on in the '80s , by trying to be more conventional and blending in a bit more , and actually I should n't have done that . ’ |
24 | I gave in to it . |
25 | I was feeling low and I gave in to a mad impulse . ’ |
26 | It would be immoral for me to give up on my son ; I have been through so much in the last three years , ’ she said . |
27 | ‘ And you expect me to give in to it , to some biological urge ? ’ |