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• Diocletian, the emperor, was so much affected with it that he gave over his sceptre and turned gardener.
• As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over [the fight] to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
• She gave the deeds over to the solicitor.
• The factory has been entirely given over to aircraft manufacture.
• He gave himself over to a monastic life.
• For, as indeed was very natural in such case, all government of the Poor by the Rich has long ago been given over to Supply-and-demand, Laissez-faire and such like, and universally declared to be ‘impossible’.
• If the bodies continued missing until Sunday, all hope would be given over, and the funerals would be preached on that morning.
• Give over with your nonsense, will you!
• While he was declaring the truth, a constable came in with his great staff, and bid him give over, and come down: but William Penn held on, declaring truth in the power of God.
• Amelia, I wish you would give over with your reading and your information, it's not for ladies to be literary; people don't like it, you silly thing!
• She was getting very heavy, and could run but slowly. Once, in the pursuit of a rabbit, which she ordinarily would have caught with ease, she gave over and lay down and rested.
• My mother told him to give over and let me alone, and said she was sure it would be a lovely suit, and that Aunt Jack would never buy poor material, but stuff that would last forever.
• According to Homer, the rest of the Trojan army drew away from Troy pretending to retreat and give over with the siege in order to confuse the Trojans.
• "Get yourself seen to, Isaac. For God's sake. Before it's too late," Sarah would chastise him. / "Och, Sarah, would you give over with your bargeing. It's just a wee cough. It'll get better itself."