Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] hand the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the water jump on the second circuit — the fourteenth of the twenty-two fences — the mare dropped her hind legs in the water , and this mistake handed the initiative to Run And Skip . |
| 2 | Reports were cited to the effect that during a visit to Argentina in January 1981 the Egyptian Foreign Minister handed the Argentine President , Videla , a message from President Carter proposing the creation of a South Atlantic Alliance of the NATO type involving Egypt . |
| 3 | Jean Harlow , alias the teenager Harlean Carpenter from Kansas City , was doing all she could to pull Hollywood out of the slump but in general the more respectable critics were more prepared at this time to hand the plaudits to the male actors , who were seen very much as the cutting edge of the new realism . |
| 4 | The woman stared at him for a moment , without expression , and then with a little smile handed the doll back to Artemis . |
| 5 | The young woman handed the leash to her husband . |
| 6 | GREAT BRITAIN last night handed the Maureen Connolly Trophy back to the United States after Anne Simpkin and Clare Wood , with contrasting performances , lost in the singles at Cardiff . |