Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] over [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff here are desperate for donations of both food and money to tide them over until the recession ends . |
| 2 | to tide you over till the morning |
| 3 | Although if the security declines in value the borrower may possibly be able to elect to hand it over to the lender and thus avoid any further liability in respect of the debt , such an eventuality would be unusual , and therefore should not be reflected in the accounting until such time as the asset is transferred . |
| 4 | There was no Madame Eglantine , only a garrulous old man who chattered like a magpie , took the package and said he would hand it over to the lady next time she visited the place . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that Bill was in his mid-fifties and had a chronic heart condition , which meant he could only play for a maximum of five minutes a match , it was a good move on Fred 's part as the pub owned the cricket pitch at the rear and naturally , as captain , Bill felt obliged to hand it over to the club , and so ‘ The Tip ’ was born . |
| 6 | And Pitt-Rivers was the first civil servant given the difficult job of persuading landowners that they ought to stop dealing with their property as they thought fit and hand it over to the control of a state agency . |
| 7 | So that Dunbar would be in no position to hand it over to the enemy . |