Example sentences of "[vb past] to hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following Portugal 's revolution in 1974 , Lisbon tried to hand back Macao to China . |
| 2 | He pulled out his billfold and tried to hand it to me . |
| 3 | We prepared to hand over this , the developed area of our work , to people who brought to it experience rather different from our own . |
| 4 | Not that he had the faintest idea of the contents of the envelope he carried within the breast pocket of the jacket he declined to hand over to the stewardess . |
| 5 | He declined to hand over the cash , no matter what was threatened , and he was too good a salesman to be sacked , so the dealing manager yelled over to the accounts clerk : " Deduct £50 from his month 's wages . " |
| 6 | She dragged over a stepladder , climbed it , and began to hand him books . |
| 7 | He threatened to hand her over to the police if she had any more of it . |
| 8 | Turkey ( until 1983 ) and Brazil ( until 1985 ) were ruled by relatively law-abiding military juntas which , in the end , decided to hand over power . |
| 9 | Then my father decided to hand over the company to the young man . |
| 10 | They immediately decided to hand the child back until the matter was resolved to prevent their other two daughters becoming too attached to the new baby . |
| 11 | The retired bank manager , who claims to be a Di fan and a royalist , said he ‘ sweated ’ over whether to destroy the tape or approach the princess about it before he decided to hand it to a newspaper . |
| 12 | I decided to hand him a quarter |
| 13 | I DECIDED to hand over a half share in my bungalow to my daughter now , and leave the other half share in my will to my grandchildren . |
| 14 | Following Syrian intervention Hobeika started to hand over his positions to Geaga 's fighters on Nov. 23 , and by Dec. 3 the LF forces had completed their withdrawal from their Ashrafiyeh stronghold to the Maronite hinterland of Kesrouan , north of greater Beirut . |
| 15 | You had to hand it to Ferryman . |
| 16 | After he won last year Tolstikov , who also won the World Cup gold medal because the race was run in conjunction with the London event , had to hand over 20 per cent to the then Soviet federation . |
| 17 | Listening for the purposes of this review with one of the other editions , which was all I had to hand , may not have been very helpful , but it did rub home how much original composition any editor of this piece has to essay . |
| 18 | Another seeking a management post in Saudi Arabia knocked 10 years off his age but was caught out when he had to hand in his passport . |
| 19 | PW also had to hand back $500,000 of the client 's money , which it was holding as a contingency against liability . |
| 20 | Linsay , 28 , had to hand over £45 given to children Cheryl , four , and Samantha , seven . |
| 21 | At the second check , at the end of the wire tunnel , his name was searched for again , and he had to hand in his H area card in exchange for a temporary pass , and a phone call was made ahead . |
| 22 | She had to hand it over . |
| 23 | The police had to hand back their metal detectors etc , in the court . |
| 24 | But I could be wrong , too , that 's why I had to hand it over to you . ’ |
| 25 | You had to hand it to Quigley . |
| 26 | There was no rule of the charity that the accused had to hand over the notes and coins received or to maintain a separate fund . |
| 27 | The rockets were kept in a big steel locker on Orion 's deck and my helpers had to hand them up to me in my pillar box . |
| 28 | You had to hand it to him . |
| 29 | He was sharp , she had to hand him that — too sharp , in her estimation ! |
| 30 | Fran had to hand it to Luke : he had handled the story with a panache that must have squashed any rumours stone-dead . |