Example sentences of "[adv] to hand over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before leaving Doune he had heard from his elder sister Agnes , Countess of Dunbar and March , that her peculiar husband had now entered into a treasonable arrangement with Edward of England , not only to hand over Dunbar Castle to the English but actually to strengthen it first , at the Plantagenet 's expense . |
| 2 | BRITAIN agreed yesterday to hand over £47 million in gold to Latvia to compensate the Baltic state for lost assets deposited with the Bank of England before the Second World War . |
| 3 | Military units have frequently carried out arrests and failed promptly to hand over detainees to the police — a number have been held beyond the 72-hour-limit . |
| 4 | Only once does Aristophanes play on the possibility that the demagogues , for all their ‘ philodemos ’ pretensions , were actually an undemocratic force : in the Wasps ( 715ff. ) ‘ they ( the demagogues ) insincerely promise to give you , that is the people , corn doles , and even to hand over Euboia to you ’ . |
| 5 | It is devoted instead to the worship of the charitable Rytasha , who is not content simply to hand over the cash but insists , in an unfortunate hangover from her Hare Krishna days , on posturing as ‘ a spiritual master ’ . |
| 6 | He was there to hand over a cheque to the charity . |
| 7 | Angy had professed to be delighted to hear from her , had invited her to her flat but refused point-blank to hand over the ring . |
| 8 | The second method is for central planning to make the master plan and then to hand over the outlines of a sub-plan to the departments who fill in the details of their own sub-plan . |
| 9 | On Jan. 15 the Cabinet approved a plan which called on all groups and individuals voluntarily to hand over small-calibre weapons by mid-March . |
| 10 | Some still persist in their view that Morris burnt his boat when he chose previously to hand over the captaincy , saying in effect that he thought his cricket was suffering because of it . |
| 11 | There always seemed to be someone else to hand over to . |
| 12 | The strength of subsequent recovery will depend largely upon the willingness truly to hand over one 's will and the outcome of one 's life to a non-individual-human God . |