Example sentences of "over to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the doctors are still with Tony , I explain the position to the daughters and hand Mum over to them . |
| 2 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 3 | She went over to the Cookery and Refreshments Tent , but was stopped at the entrance by a pale-faced Constable Perkins . |
| 4 | Peggy got up and hurried over to him . |
| 5 | ‘ They took it over to the rose-bed under her window and the marks corresponded . |
| 6 | He got up in his stately way and went over to his pantry . |
| 7 | I sat with my head in my hands for a while , then I went over to my desk and took out a small framed photograph of Anne and myself which I always hid before she arrived . |
| 8 | I took the flowers over to one of the sinks and put them in it . |
| 9 | I went over to the bed , climbed on top of it , put my head on the pillow and fell asleep . |
| 10 | The final garden section has been screened off neatly with espalier fruit and given over to salad crops and utility elements such as a shed , a compost area and an incinerator ( essential ingredients in most compositions ) . |
| 11 | I 'll come over to you . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Why do n't we go over to Richard and Jane 's one evening ? |
| 13 | Cameron got up and went over to the back window . |
| 14 | Cameron jumped down from the granite post and walked over to his little committee . |
| 15 | He walked over to the timber stack along with a sawyer called Iain Logan whom he knew well — they were both friends of Donald Gillies at Camserney mill . |
| 16 | He sends his factor up to terrify my father — after dark — when I have gone over to Camserney with Alastair . |
| 17 | Well before noon , beside a small church whose roof sagged under clumps of grass and willow-herb , they came to the bridge over to Grandtully and looked across at the dense little settlement , lumpish houses made of undressed river boulders with brown smoke streaming through their heather thatch , hovels of branches littered through the trees , a few solid cottages with level roof-trees . |
| 18 | They all went over to the fire for plates of meat and bread . |
| 19 | Would he ever know which friends and fellows he had delivered over to the government in that one fatally careless moment ? |
| 20 | He put on his cloak and padded over to the door . |
| 21 | One of its rooms was given over to chess-playing , a pastime enjoyed by Rosengarten and Leonard . |
| 22 | Having registered , he set about ordering his life as he saw it developing , by giving himself over to the muse , by associating with those whose lives found proper space for literary reflection and endeavour , by getting close to that bohemian existence which he loved and from which all modern art seemed to spring . |
| 23 | She tossed the end of her red scarf over her shoulder , flung back her head and strode over to him . |
| 24 | Come over to your place perhaps . ’ |
| 25 | We are going over to Trame to see what effect this is having . ’ |
| 26 | There you will see the sign , a big board … that 's where … he smiled his big smile again as he tore off the piece of paper and handed it over to me . |
| 27 | The thirty-year rundown of the Great Central Railway terminus at Marylebone ( a prelude to seemingly inevitable total closure ) , was dramatically slammed into reverse gear on 30 April when BR admitted blossoming Chiltern Line services could not possibly be handled by Paddington , Euston , or even handed over to London Transport . |
| 28 | Like the 1920s stock before them , 1938-design vehicles were shipped over to the island to provide a moderately more comfortable service between Ryde and Shanklin . |
| 29 | The brewers are moving over to leases not to improve the running of their pubs or to offer better service to customers but simply to avoid new government legislation aimed at giving tenants greater protection . |
| 30 | John and Maureen took their first-ever fortnight 's holiday in their 16 years in the Harrow and returned to be told the Benskin 's board had rejected the plan to turn the pub over to management . |