Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] handed [pron] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took her by back streets to Golden Lane , where he handed her over to Noakes , the mortuary attendant . |
| 2 | Three generations of Aylings ran a respectable newspaper and I handed it over to someone who sent it plummeting down-market , used it to promote an extreme political view and was a thoroughly bad employer . ’ |
| 3 | And the police come and we handed everything over to them . |
| 4 | He guessed she did n't care all that much whether he handed it over or not . |
| 5 | He was nicknamed ‘ The Resurrection Man ’ because he would row up and down the river by night , fishing up floating bodies — and picking their pockets before he handed them over to the police and claimed his reward . |
| 6 | Then he went to another drawer and extracted a piece of paper , squinting at it carefully before he handed it over . |
| 7 | I must have looked embarrassed when she handed it over because they both turned their backs while I slipped my old dress off and slipped the new one on . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm normally at home most evenings , ’ she told him , trying to ignore his disbelieving look as she handed it over . |
| 9 | When he handed them over to the Syrians , the major received a special word of thanks from representatives of the country which would , ten years later , help the Americans to bomb Libya . |
| 10 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |