Example sentences of "hand [adv prt] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , no , she prayed silently , surely Peter had n't blithely handed over one of the family heirlooms ? |
| 2 | Alderman Glover said that the corporation 's record would have been better had they not handed over some of their schemes ready-made to the NIHT . |
| 3 | One county , Kopparberg , has handed over most of its budget to family doctors and made them responsible for buying services from competing providers . |
| 4 | Her mother had handed over most of her fortune of £50,000 to Rotha and this was used to fund the organization . |
| 5 | That seemed to sum up Robinson 's attitude when , within weeks of becoming ‘ Lord High Everything ’ in the playing administration , he gladly handed over many of his responsibilities to a new team manager , Mike Hendrick . |
| 6 | Ratsiraka handed over many of his responsibilities to Razanamasy , although retaining the portfolios of Defence and Foreign Affairs . |
| 7 | Sheep automatically seem to connect people with food , so that they become bothersome and , in some cases I saw , dangerous as they tried butting until harassed walkers gave in and handed over some of their food . |
| 8 | The court was told that Gavin , full-time city council union official at the time of the offences , handed over some of the cash as hardship payments to striking bin men . |
| 9 | While the press , led by The Hindu , has gone a long way to proving that Bofors handed out millions of dollars to Indian middlemen , the identity of the ultimate recipients of the money remains a mystery . |
| 10 | I urge him to go to the railway stations each weekend and to get the newspapers that are handed out free of charge . |
| 11 | The government rejected this as being tantamount to handing over one-third of the country 's municipalities to the guerrillas , and insisted that the armed forces had to be present in every part of the national territory . |
| 12 | A ROBBER tricked building society cashiers into handing over thousands of pounds by pretending a cucumber was a gun , an Old Bailey court was told yesterday . |
| 13 | In 1985 Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy analyst , was paid $30,000 by Mossad in return for handing over thousands of pages of top-secret material . |
| 14 | In the next two months it will hand over many of its roles to the British Horse Racing Board and racing in this country will certainly never be the same again . |
| 15 | Chlothar I even made the heinous suggestion that the churches of his kingdom should hand over one-third of their revenues to the crown . |
| 16 | The Foreign Office said it was still determined Libya should hand over two of its countrymen wanted for the attack . |
| 17 | The family are now trying to jog the memories of possible witnesses by handing out thousands of leaflets around Auxerre . |
| 18 | We hand over hundreds of prisoners to police every day form appearance in court without any problem . |
| 19 | When you hand over some of your power you also ensure that , from the recipient 's point of view , their job is enlarged in new or exciting ways . |
| 20 | But for months , Hay had been forcing Bryan to hand over hundreds of pounds to pay for an expensive lifestyle . |
| 21 | And who could have guessed that , with said gnashers playing him up , he would have to hand over one of his duties — and that a Labour MP would be called in from the subs ' bench . |