Example sentences of "to give [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Not to give in to temptation , no matter what form it takes . |
| 32 | ‘ I was struck by two things — the refusal of battered victims to give in to despair , those who could not speak gave me a thumbs up , and the insistence of sorrowing parents and girlfriends that ‘ we 'll never let them win ’ , ’ he said . |
| 33 | Kashmir set to give in to kidnappers . |
| 34 | He felt that , with a wife and child to support , he should be paid what he was worth , and he made it clear that he was not prepared to give in when he thought he had a good case . |
| 35 | However , I had to give in when , a few days later , Christopher returned from school and informed me that his teacher said a dog added to the character of a child and also taught compassion . |
| 36 | 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 . ’ |
| 37 | Whatever it was , however , he was determined not to give in . |
| 38 | But Dawn Run was not a horse to give in meekly , and as the four came round into the straight she stuck resolutely to her guns . |
| 39 | Ready to give in to his feeding frenzy . |
| 40 | After we have chosen the appropriate remedy to give in LM form , the first choice , after the potency , is how much of the granule is the patient to take i.e. the dose , how often it is to be repeated and for how many days are they to be on that particular potency . |
| 41 | Then in 1878 he started to get swelling of the legs , and he had to give in . |
| 42 | ( But charitable ) support is not just a matter of writing cheques ; there is also a great potential to give in kind . |
| 43 | It was time to give in and do a bit of grovelling . |
| 44 | This new dialectical relationship between spectator and screen image led some critics and film-makers to make large claims for the avant-garde film as inherently more progressive and political , because of its self-reflexiveness and because of its refusal to give in to the tendency of mainstream film to construct an ‘ imaginary identity ’ . |
| 45 | You have only to give in a few times ( out of many when you stick to your planned ignoring ) to lose the battle . |
| 46 | Parents often stand out against troublesome behaviour for some time , only to give in eventually . |
| 47 | With ‘ Our Herbert ’ next to the ill-fated St Thomas ' , very rare occasions saw me back at Westminster , with Matron 's permission , to give in an essay or two and get the gist of the rest of the Philosophy course . |
| 48 | After two exhausting hours we had to give in to the flames . |
| 49 | Both May and Bert are determined not to give in to their physical weaknesses . |
| 50 | It refused to give in to the authority of Rome and the Church . |
| 51 | On the other hand , they also need to explain their own good reasons for a decision , and refuse to give in to teenage threats or tears , when they know that decision is right . |
| 52 | But he refused to take no for an answer and after a few unseemly tussles Sally decided it was easier to give in and let him explore inside the leg of her panties . |
| 53 | The point is that it is very easy , when you live alone , to give in to compulsion . |
| 54 | But Phoebe was n't ready to give in yet . |
| 55 | Now , because she needed something from him , she was prepared to give in . |
| 56 | But she was trying to wean herself off them and to give in now would be to acknowledge the potency of the nightmare . |
| 57 | Ted Walker astonishes with his honesty , and this autobiography bubbles with sane optimism , a refusal ever to give in to the temptations of self-pity . |
| 58 | He was under immense pressure from the US to give in and back no holds barred military action by UN forces in the former Yugoslav republic . |
| 59 | He was under immense pressure to give in and back no holds barred military action by UN forces in the former Yugoslav republic . |
| 60 | The psychic reasons for this solidarity I have tried to give in this essay , just as I have attempted to spell out some of the political consequences , but it is to Dahrendorf that we owe the making of the connections between solidarity and economic consequences . |