Example sentences of "[noun] handed [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watson , who turned to crime after moving to London , slumped in the dock of Inner London Crown Court as Judge Brian Pryor handed out the sentence on Monday . |
| 2 | One of the many highlights is the view down Loch Shiel from Glenfinnan , a vista that has been reproduced many times on gaudy retouched 60s ' postcards , and on calendars handed out at Christmas by firms who manufacture ball-bearings . |
| 3 | Consequently , the guidance handed down by the Court of Appeal is frequently way out of line with the levels of sentence that are typically imposed for similar offences by the lower courts . |
| 4 | The call was put through , confirmation obtained , and the car handed over . |
| 5 | Travis handed over some biscuits topped with slices of tinned meat . |
| 6 | Alex and Chris were playing poker as I walked in , and after explaining my predicament one of the Frenchmen handed over an old copy of the local paper which he had brought with him when he had joined . |
| 7 | Some people in publishing like to think of theirs as a glamorous medium , so they sometimes copy the Hollywood glitter , They certainly did so last week , when the Periodical Publishers Association handed out its awards for 1983 . |
| 8 | Corbett handed over the coin , let the man go and leaned against the wall . |
| 9 | Out in the car park , Lucy handed over the car keys to Virginia and wedged herself into the passenger-seat , glancing rather apprehensively at Virginia as they accelerated slightly too fast out of the car park . |
| 10 | In June of last year , Koons handed over the fourth ‘ String of Puppies ’ to Art Rogers before a court deadline for doing so , and no fines were levied . |
| 11 | There were unpaid , unqualified ‘ nurses ‘ , usually senior ladies of the dale who possessed all the medical folklore and herbal remedies handed down from generation to generation . |
| 12 | But thoughts of the administrative foul-up were far away last month when Mr Wright handed over Darlington 's peace offering and also gave sets of Kwik Cricket to schoolchildren at two Bridgetown primary schools . |
| 13 | Swire had on his return handed over to Lord Fraser of Carmyllie , the Lord Advocate ( Scotland 's senior law officer ) , two sealed letters from al-Zawi . |
| 14 | The N.C. O. handed over the papers he had brought and after clicking his heels and saluting went back into the station without looking at me . |
| 15 | Rachaela handed back the heath and the dragon . |
| 16 | She went off to attend to her cultures , and Reynolds handed in the form and the catalogue to the copy clerk . |
| 17 | Some of Mr Mellor 's favourite orchestras will probably be among companies handed over , albeit kicking and screaming . |
| 18 | In fact , I 'd reject every plan handed in today — on the grounds that we do n't want railways operated by skin-of-the-teeth men . ’ |
| 19 | Egyptian intelligence handed over Mahmud Abu Halima , 34 , to the Federal Bureau of Investigation agents , said a security source , and they had already left Egypt for the United States . |
| 20 | In 1969 the National Liberation Council handed over power to Dr Busia , the moderate politician amenable to Western counsels . |
| 21 | Silently , Carrefour handed over the enhancer . |
| 22 | The Welsh Rugby Union disciplinary committee handed out such a stiff sentence — Anthony will be out of the game until December 1990 — because this was his fourth offence . |
| 23 | ALTON Townswomen 's Guild handed over charity cheques at the annual general meeting . |
| 24 | The Conservatives handed out the Greens ' fairly innocuous version of the 1989 Queen 's Speech gratis , too , in the belief that it was time the public had their eyes opened to what the party was really about . |
| 25 | Thus the programmes of study represent not tablets of the law handed down by Kenneth Baker , but compromises . |
| 26 | Even the duck used for Tai Bai Duck ( a dish handed down from generation to generation and named after the Tang dynasty poet Li Tai Bai ) despite being supplied by Cherry Valley , is , promises Jermey , authentic , because the company supplied much of China 's duck breeding stock . |
| 27 | The guard handed over a bag containing seven thousand pounds . |
| 28 | The guard handed over a bag containing seven thousand pounds . |
| 29 | It also implies work which has been previously accomplished , an inheritance handed down from one generation to another . ’ |
| 30 | But the verdict it looks for is always the judgement of truth , the verdict handed down by reality . |