Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] over to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emma allowed herself to be led over to the sofa . |
| 2 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 3 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 4 | an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting . |
| 5 | In Roslavl' during March and April it was frequently noted that the public believed that ecclesiastical gold was to be handed over to the Jews . |
| 6 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 7 | On 14 August 1903 , the school teachers asked to keep their travelling privileges after the schools were to be handed over to the Local Education Authority . |
| 8 | The ‘ appointed day ’ when all tramways had to be handed over to the Board , was 1 July 1933 . |
| 9 | In one area where the troops were being maintained by air droppings , the Corps Commander gave orders that all parachutes were to be handed over to the local Burmese who were in rags . |
| 10 | Although he has completed five years , he will continue for another couple of years until the parish is ready to be handed over to the local clergy . |
| 11 | For some of their land to be handed over to the Roman soldiers was a bitter pill to swallow , for it meant the loss of the Colne peninsula and much else , which left them only the Essex marches and lands to the north and the area round modern Chelmsford , which probably became their tribal centre . |
| 12 | In listing the various problems faced by 5 Corps , Macmillan includes " Dealing with the White Russians and Cossacks , together with their wives and families , serving in these German forces ' and " Dealing with Ustachis , Chetniks and other Yugoslav refugees , deciding which , if any , are to be handed over to the Tito troops etc " . |
| 13 | In another statement , Maj J Laugham DSO of 45 Recce Regiment described how : " On 15 May the main body of the Croats to be handed over to the YUGOSLAVS were encamped to the south of the main road leading from the AUSTRIAN frontier to BLEIBURG … |
| 14 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 15 | Under the terms of the new bases agreement Clark Field was to be handed over to the armed forces of the Philippines by Sept. 16 , 1992 , the date which the USA claimed marked the expiry of the current agreement . |
| 16 | In Brewster ( 1979 ) 69 Cr App R 375 ( CA ) , an insurance agent was guilty of theft of the premiums because the money had to be handed over to the companies he worked for under the terms of his contract . |
| 17 | You 've got I 'll give you twenty minutes and it 's got ta be ready to be handed over to the other group in twenty minutes time . |
| 18 | Next week the first £50,000 cheque is due to be handed over to the health authority by the fund raising committee chairman , Coun Heather Scott . |
| 19 | You can either work it to be doubled over to the wrong side or make a matching strip of plain knitting as a facing . |
| 20 | It is precisely among the eighteen to twenty-five years old electorate , which urgently needs to be won over to the Socialist cause before next year 's parliamentary elections , that Lang is the most popular Minister of the decade . |
| 21 | Preston 's playing is so vivacious , his enthusiasm for the music so stimulating and his obvious enjoyment in playing this marvellous instrument ( which the DG engineers have recorded with something well into the demonstration category ) so infectious that I doubt even the most dyed-in-the-wool hater of organ music could fail to be won over to the cause . |