Example sentences of "passing [pers pn] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I left my GP — he was passing me over to a surgeon — and he shook my hand and wished me luck — that in itself was a bad sign — neither the truth nor the meaning had really sunk in . |
| 2 | She must be re-living her sad memories with such concentration that she was somehow passing them on to him . |
| 3 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 4 | If these two signals differ significantly in level , you will need to balance them up at the mixer before passing them on to the camcorder . |
| 5 | The Institute is concerned , however , that the duty may lead to over-reporting by auditors or to unnecessary formality in preparation of reports , which could cause delay in passing them on to the Bank . |
| 6 | When they reach their destination , the driver stops the car beneath a rare working streetlamp and his passenger feels a tremor of recognition , but is reassured by Valentin that he has heard all the jokes before and he wo n't be passing them on to his mother . |
| 7 | The process of endorsing Notes and passing them on to pay for goods or services from business to business is still quite common . |
| 8 | She gave him no more than a perfunctory ‘ So glad you could come , ’ before passing him on to her husband . |
| 9 | He got the top off and a cup poured before lowering himself gingerly back into the driving seat and passing it over to Catherine . |
| 10 | I did n't have to pay any more and I did n't , and I was passing it over to Steve . |
| 11 | Brown will probably be involved in passing it on to other sites as well as to colleagues at the Morgan Grenfell operation . |
| 12 | It is now fairly certain that the Australia antigen represents part of the virus responsible for type B hepatitis and its discovery has made it easier to determine the modes of transmission and the presence of a ‘ carrier ’ state , in which the infected person may suffer no ill health from his disease but is still capable of passing it on to others . |
| 13 | There is also the hereditary factor and cellulite does tend to run in families , so you may have your mother to thank for passing it on to you ! |
| 14 | When a child has got the squeeze , he is allowed to hold on to it as long as he wants before passing it on to the next person . |
| 15 | Jampel Changchub , aged 30 , was described as a ‘ principal member ’ of the group and was accused of ‘ collecting information and passing it on to the enemy ’ . |
| 16 | For the most part , a node is a staging post area , collecting energy during daylight , and passing it on to other parts of the plant during darkness , when the elaboration stops , and there is not so much traffic on the stem main road . |
| 17 | A child was writing a poem in Bengali and passing it on to another boy to translate for him . |
| 18 | Finch handed the photograph to Miller , who did no more than glance at it before passing it on to Golding and muttering : ‘ Could be anywhere . ’ |
| 19 | Otherwise passing it on to a third party , but you 're not in the case of a married couple . |
| 20 | It was just that erm the other varieties around were competing too heavily against it so they thought what 's the point of passing it on to the children . |
| 21 | The recession has hit us full on , and many of our customers have been feeling the pinch , and passing it on to us . |
| 22 | The money was definitely being brought to Mordecai ; and Mordecai was definitely passing it on to Osman . |
| 23 | The duty of care , provided under Section 34 of the 1990 Environmental Protection Act , makes all businesses responsible for ensuring that their waste is disposed of properly , by passing it on to authorized waste collectors . |
| 24 | but , but passing it on to , to Darren to do the er |
| 25 | Says GAMTA : ‘ Once again the CAA is side-stepping this issue and passing it off to JAA … |
| 26 | ‘ Here , ’ said Meryl , passing it across to the woman squatting beside her . |
| 27 | Magda ze Schluderpacheru was unslinging a rocket-launcher from under the bar , and passing it across to the Maniax . |
| 28 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
| 29 | Was n't it one of the simplest magics there was and his grandfather , to say nothing of his great-grandfather ( who had lived long and fared well ) passing it down to him . |