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It had not been a natural noise, and the young wife' s anxiety gave way to panic.

The woman sank back to a sitting posture on the floor, and, covering her eyes with her hands, gave way to heart-broken sobs and wailings.

It had been that dreadful wet summer, you know, and places that were safe in other years gave way suddenly without warning.

He gave way at the door and let an old lady go in before him.

This feeling grew, and she gave way to it, and it led her to an instinctive belief that he had been a factor in that romance.

But my irritation slowly gave way to a realisation that their expectations of us were because they simply did not know any different.

A year and a half into the project, the "wobble-plate" system gave way to a simpler, lighter and more robust design.

After a moment's mournful silence, his heart overflowed, and he gave way to a flood of tears.

With the rescue pod making the round trip faster every time Wednesday evening, the sun over the Atacama desert gave way to a cold night.

As he failed to push the enchanted cage off himself, as his knees gave way and he fell to the floor.

A boy " miraculously " survived when a window guard in his Bronx apartment apparently gave way and he fell four stories yesterday .

NARRATOR: Keynes did not have long to live. Ill and overworked, his health gave way, but his reputation and influence outlived him.

As the children grew, the toys gave way to more practical presents, but the envelope never lost its allure.

The ambassador finally gave way during the last minutes of the meeting.

He went to take a bird's nest, Was built upon a bough; The branch gave way and Simon fell Into a dirty slough.

The Rainbow is an account of how the Victorian era gave way to the modern age.

Rescue crews in Bangladesh are searching for victims after a section of a bridge gave way under the weight of thousands of cyclone victims.

Her eyes got bigger, and the practiced, polite facial expression gave way to genuine excitement over this topic.

Last night, lions had brought down a bull by the water, and the screaming before the windpipes gave way had been extraordinary.

Relief in Asia over the tentative deal on the U. S. borrowing limit gave way to concern in Europe over economic growth.

However, he gave way to her representations, and they entered the furmity booth forthwith .

The clerk lifted the final bag for her, its bottom gave way.

The frock coat full of wadding, cut close to pull the figure into shape, gradually gave way to a looser but still precise jacket.

Then, her skin-tight leather trousers, surprisingly, gave way at the seams giving Brad an excuse to feel his woman up!

Tess, half frightened, gave way to his importunity; placed her hand upon the stone and swore.

One colleague says Mr Bouton's habitual coolness gave way to rare emotion as he digested the enormity of the losses .

But I kind of, I was persistent and persistent and he gave way. And so that's how it ended up.

The grassy hills we climbed on our way out of Ulan Bator soon gave way to the much harsher, more arid landscape of the Gobi Desert.

When he finished with a final birdie, any seriousness of the incident gave way to levity.

In a day of meetings with Vietnamese leaders, the Vietnam-Iraq comparisons gave way to a focus on areas of cooperation.

The gate suddenly gave way and an angry crowd burst out of the yard.

The turbine eventually gave way to a pair of diesel engines.

The bolt gave way, and the door flung inward to reveal the two gangsters.

Part of a mountain gave way and slid down onto the homes below. Fifteen homes were buried; six people died.

Her curiosity gave way to concern, concern to consternation, as she watched the man trekking from rubbish bin to mail box, and back again.

To complicate matters even more, a dam gave way, flooding streets in Sao Jose dos Campos near the city of Sao Paulo.

In attempting to fasten a nail to one of the old walls, it gave way.

If one gave way it would release the toxic mud directly into the river and poison Budapest's drinking-water supply.

That's the way history used to be -- all powerful nations declined and gave way to other empires.

And in northern Wisconsin, a pelting ice storm before dawn on Saturday gave way to a long, slow snowfall the rest of the weekend.

The man gave way to impulses to round upon his associates and accuse them.

And the commercial walled gardens of the dominant players gave way to open Internetwide availability of such services.

Just then the floor gave way under me and I crashed to the floor below with pieces of burning wood all around me.

Twenty-eight others were rescued after the bridge gave way in the state of Arunachal Pradesh.

Finally strong hands pulled him to safety as his legs gave way beneath him.

Eventually, the soda fountain gave way to the modern soda pop machine, which dispenses not only Coke but other popular soft drinks as well.

After a long argument, he gave way.

Cobblestones gave way to devil grass beneath their horse's hooves, then to soft wet mud the color of a baby's night soil.

Initial fighting gave way to nation building as the Regulars built schools and sewers, installed generators, and opened a hospital.

But these early protectionist impulses gave way to a more stalwart defence of trade.

Anti-terrorism gave way to its much more potent cousin, anti-insurgency.

As winter gave way to spring and spring to summer, Kaz began to heal.

But this only gave way to the reality that the eurozone, and the rest of the world, still face intractable problems.

Wars between armies gave way to wars between nations -- total wars in which the distinction between combatant and civilian became blurred.

Father found him into big beetle, showing a vice gave way, drive him back to the bedroom.

Mr. Green opened the door and gave way to me.

Moraine gave way to flat grasslands, pine to palm. Windbreaks appeared, then wheat, and finally clapboard houses behind manicured hedges.

Even through all her family and financial troubles, Margaret never gave way to despair.

By Mr Bush's second term, abrasive rhetoric gave way to a more tempered approach.

In time the hat gave way to the modern collection basket or tray lined with velvet or felt to muffle the clink of dropped coins.

Csar gave way before such cogent reasoning, and the cardinals were consequently invited to dinner.

However, this giddy joy soon gave way to a more sober view, for three main reasons.

As a result, the notion of property qualifications, at least in some areas, gave way to tax qualifications.

When I stepped out, a weak spot in the floor gave way.

With the abandonment of mercantilism and the grant of oversea state trading monopolies, paternalism gave way to private enterprise.

The Bretton Woods currency system gave way in 1973 to floating rates, with the dollar as the world's main reserve currency.

The carefully staged black-and-white Steichen pictures that delighted prewar readers of Vogue mostly gave way to color and spontaneity.

The sorrows of her earlier years gave way to joy in later life.

But it was only in 2008 that the latest ill-fated military-installed government gave way to civilian rule.

The giant shipbuilding sheds reflect the progress of the age, as wooden structures gave way to iron and steel ones.

At this moment , the sudden flush of strength which the joy of meeting his young master called forth in the dying man gave way .

Over the years, these gave way to stringers who sent their stories by sea or air mail, and then by telex and cable.

I had hoped to visit this bakery but the initial enthusiasm on the baker's part soon gave way to reticence and my visit was cancelled.

After the gentlest of swirls, the buttery brioche bouquet gave way to a blast of dark fruit and sawdust.

Unfortunately, this evolution was not complete and finally gave way to Gaoming and Chiming record type.

Through tenacious reform, authoritarian rule gradually gave way to the boulevard of democracy.

Suddenly the snow gave way beneath his fore legs and he sank down.

During the upper half of the 19th century, the manual weaving machine gradually gave way to steam engine.

But euphoria from victory in the first Gulf War gave way to resentment over a relatively brief recession.

Oceania, 'tis for thee' gave way to lighter music. Winston walked over to the window, keeping his back to the telescreen.

The steam train immediately gave way to the electric train after the war.

Even this tradition gave way to another, in which a large wheat cake was baked, then eaten, not tossed .

At first he said nothing, then his silence gave way to.

A large arm-chair HAD been set in front of the shrine and seating herself she gave way to loud lamentations.

As Colonel Qaddafi grew older, the trim, handsome officer with short black hair gave way to someone more flamboyant.

The prisoner gave way under the police's interrogation.

As we threaded through the highlands, sharply terraced fields of sorghum and corn gave way to misted forests.

Soon the rectangular farms gave way to rugged ranch land, canyons, ravines, red earth-and lots of mesquite trees.

Thus the old IBM, which sold integrated mainframes, gave way to a new one.

The hand methods of manufacture used by small shops gave way in time to the mass production of chocolate.

But early wins gave way to losses as the firm started betting against oil prices rising.

So yeah, we sponsored the Winner Roast, we bought radio advertising, and we gave way a car, we had launched a party and we had no tickets.

The sharp rocks broke under their hands, and gave way under their feet.

On Tuesday, an informal gathering of parents at Juyuan Middle School in Dujiangyan to commemorate their children gave way to unbridled fury.

With the advent of high-speed data transmission in the 1980s, teletype gave way toe-mail and fax.

When the Bronze Age gave way to the Iron Age around the Mediterranean the shipping of tin ended between 1200 and 1100 BC.

Mao tunics quickly gave way to Western suits, but Wall Street-style briefcases never really caught on.

Weary stares gave way to happy smiles as we wished each person a Merry Christmas and handed out the gifts .

Steam trains gave way to electric trains soon after the war.

The logic is brutal: they hardly budged, and the Democrats gave way.

The owners gave way to workers' demands for a pay increase.

As we struggled to look further into space, observation gave way to calculation.

This sturdy configuration eventually gave way to the client-server model.

How, when, and where hunting and gathering gave way to farming and pastoralism is uncertain.

Ice turned to water and snow gave way to grass, and the result was slow but profound changes in the way that humans lived.

The old wall gave way and injured three children.

By and by, however, " fervent" gave way to " prosaic " . Precisely because of this change it became possible for love to last.

In the end, the veiled threats gave way to an arrest, and Mr. Hu was put in a jail in Tianjin.

Oh, how awful terror is, and how shamefully I gave way to it!

His evilness gave way to his conscience.

After World War II, the dread of another Great Depression gave way to an economic boom.

However, these grandiose dreams soon gave way to more practical concerns.

The first phase gradually gave way to a second.

Finally, the boss gave way to the union. He promised to increase the workers' pay.

In time America's fearful "Japan bashing" gave way to sniggering, then indifference.

The ladder gave way and Larry fell to the ground.

But this fear of capital flight slowly gave way to pride in India's national champions.

audience gave way to uncontrollable bursts of laughter.

In the alleys of Sidi Bouzid and other towns, peaceful protests in the day gave way to street fighting at night.

But after a month at home, Sanborn's disgust gave way to giddy excitement.

But over the following days, my excitement gave way to despair.

Terrorists gave way to the police.

Soon his passion sank down to grief , and grief gave way to melancholy.

Finally, the iron grille gave way.

With the advent of agriculture, tribes gave way to city-states.

The grey clouds gradually gave way to a blue.

That South African World Cup rugby glow gave way to everyday reality.

The bridge gave way under the weight of the lorry.

But dismay quickly gave way to feelings of lightness and freedom.

Mrs. Smith gave way to her husband in buying the car.

But the initial amusement about offshoring soon gave way to fear.

They gave way to gloomy thoughts over their injustices.

The highly decorated late 19th century menus, which were influenced by Victorian art, gave way to modern art in the 20th century.

Self-assurance gave way to nostalgia as soon as Bush left the podium.

Jealousy gave way to admiration of thir prowess.

The boss gave way to the union and promised to increase the workers' pay in the end.

Steam trains gave way to electronic trains.

Later in my patient persuasion, he finally gave way to qing qing play.

by the late 1980s , generations one and two gave way to the prevailing " gen 3 " products.

she gave way to a burst of weeping.

Then, last autumn, denial gave way to shock and fear.

The floor gave way under the heavy weight.

Once the country calmed down, chaos gave way to boredom.

It is natural that steam trains gave way to electric trains.

His anger quickly gave way to curiosity.

The crowd gave way to the ambulance.

The storm gave way to bright sunshine.

storm gave way to bright sunshine.

We also thought we gave way a car, I'm not kidding.

At first some gave way to big characters who treated their businesses as fiefs.

The dam suddenly gave way this morning.

This week in our series, we look at how British power gave way to American influence after World War Two.

Her reason gave way to passions.

Between 1999 and 2002, shareholders saw the value of their holdings shrink as early optimism gave way to reality.

Gave way to an oncoming car.

The rain storm gave way to bright sunshine.

In June 2007, Blair finally gave way to Brown.

The boy gave way to the old lady.

When mentioned about training, coaches would easily acept all kinds of complainments from the players , but then never gave way to anything.

If the dikes of the Netherlands gave way, the sea would inundatethe lowlands

It was his last effort; his legs gave way abruptly under him,

pride in craftsmanship gave way to the pressure to increase rates of productivity

The austere speeches gave way in 1993 to music and spectacle

the private homes eventually gave way to city hall

Sailboats gave way to steamships

Water buck, hippo and water fowl gave way to animals such as pig and antelope which could survive drier conditions