Example sentences of "i give [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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1 | Should I too give Jacob my maidservant , Zilpah , or should I give in to Rachel ? |
2 | 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 . ’ |
3 | I 'm frightened of these teenagers so I give in to their demands for money . |
4 | I have tried leaving them without food but after about a week I give in to their begging . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I give in to it . |
7 | ‘ I gave off to him about not brushing his hair . |
8 | After about a year I gave in to the pull and discovered that fatherhood has made me a much more serious person . |
9 | 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 . ’ |
10 | I gave in to it . |
11 | I was feeling low and I gave in to a mad impulse . ’ |