Example sentences of "[verb] he over to the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | We tied his arms behind his back and handed him over to the next village headman we encountered . |
2 | No wonder they 're sending him over to the mad house for th ’ electric . ’ |
3 | McGowan took Jed by the arm and led him over to the cardboard box . |
4 | She took hold of his hand and led him over to the small bed . |
5 | Burney took him over to the grey slab in the middle of the room . |
6 | He carried him over to the great oak chair and stood him on it . |
7 | Surely the man had enough sense to take him over to the other corner , where aged Chevrolets lay wearily beside battered Valiants , motorbikes and scooters . |
8 | Much credit is due to the quick thinking of his jockey John Buckingham riding in his first Grand National , in steering him over to the wide outside and popping him through a gap . |
9 | Attempts were made to bring Erich Honecker , the former East German party and government leader , to trial on charges of giving the " shoot-to-kill " order to guards preventing illegal border-crossings , but the Soviet Union , where Honecker and his wife were , refused to hand him over to the German authorities [ see pp. 37828-29 ; 38110 ; for June sentencing of Harry Tisch see pp. 37967 ; 38298 ] . |