Example sentences of "[pron] handed [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I was staying with your sainted mother in Siena , small hotel in Via dei Cappuccini , and we were just leaving , I handed a postcard to the hall porter to stamp and send to England . |
| 2 | Silently , I handed the cheque back . |
| 3 | It would n't bother your brother one jot if I handed the place over to Harry when I got too old to manage it . |
| 4 | ‘ My brother Francis won the wager and I handed the ring over . |
| 5 | For example , in the 1950s and early 1960s a powerful Joint Committee of Congress committed millions of dollars to the development of civilian nuclear energy technologies under a single federal agency , which handed the technology over , free , to private corporations , which then built nuclear plants . |
| 6 | She handed the phone awkwardly to Dmitri . |
| 7 | She handed the book up to Gilly , who was still perched on the chair . |
| 8 | While she handed the goods to mother , who opened the cover and grease paper within to place on a plate , Carl had detected a chippy smell from her breath . |
| 9 | She handed the phone to Constance , who immediately recognised Nicky Scott Wilson 's languid voice . |
| 10 | You can tell him you showed the girl a knife , that you got into her room and that she handed the wallet over . |
| 11 | She handed the binoculars over . |
| 12 | She handed the glass back to him and he returned it to the restaurant . |
| 13 | She handed the receiver to him and left the room without a word , closing the door quietly behind her . |
| 14 | She handed the telegrams to Daniel . |
| 15 | After a few moments of apparent concentration , she handed the sticks to Lucien . |
| 16 | She crossed her remarkably elegant legs , silky in high-heeled patent-leather shoes , and smiled in fair imitation of a Hollywood siren as she handed the cup across the table to Miles . |
| 17 | Retaining one for herself , she handed the other to Gina . |
| 18 | She handed the list back to him . |
| 19 | She handed the two pieces over , and O'Connor began to read them rapidly , looking up at her occasionally while he did so . |
| 20 | And she handed the letter to Sally-Anne . |
| 21 | She handed the whisky to Henry , the gin and lime to her mother , then took the third herself , and her mother said , ‘ What 's that ? |
| 22 | She handed the letter to her grandmother , saying , ‘ It 's her brother . |
| 23 | She handed the file to Juliet . |
| 24 | She handed the airbag to the registrar while Jack pressed rhythmically on the patient 's sternum . |
| 25 | Sophie finished draining the abscess and injected a liquid antibiotic into the cavity , then she handed the rabbit over to Helen , who took it out to the small boy in the waiting-room . |
| 26 | We allmost fainted with fright and was only stayed from the same fate by the hand of his Lordship , who handed the keeper the dove ( fake ) the keeper shut its hand and with a gurgling noise vanished with a clang of its lid , and all went pitch . |
| 27 | The report was compiled by Kay with the help of Caroline Richmond , a journalist and the founder of the Campaign Against Health Fraud , now called HealthWatch ; it was Richmond who handed the draft report over to the court , against the college 's wishes . |
| 28 | But typewriters we had problems with because , if they went in for repair , you never got them back from the Ordinance Core , and so at one place in Tunbridge Wells we handed a typewriter in and because the army were allowed to buy greaseproof paper , we bought a lot of greaseproof paper which came in the package of a new typewriter . |
| 29 | We handed the horses back to their respective lads and went down the hill again with Tremayne and found Doone waiting for us , sitting in his car . |
| 30 | Their destination was the small town of Krk where they handed the aid to representatives of Feed the Children and the Croatian Red Cross . |