Example sentences of "gave in to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crisis is so severe Downing Street gave in to Labour demands to recall Parliament . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | so if they gave in to that one temptation |
| 4 | Her mother gave in to this demand because otherwise Kim had bad tantrums during which she had once broken a glass dividing door and on another occasion a dining chair . |
| 5 | Bush gave in to this movement , invoked at that time by presidential contender Patrick Buchanan , when he sacked the chairman of the N.E.A. John Frohnmayer this spring ( The Art Newspaper No. 17 , April 1992 , pp.1,2 ) . |
| 6 | For a couple of minutes she gave in to another uncharacteristic fit of temper . |