Example sentences of "[pers pn] handed over [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The greying gunman pulled the weapon out of a carrier bag and threatened to shoot a cashier unless she handed over money .
2 The greying gunman pulled the weapon out of a carrier bag and threatened to shoot a cashier unless she handed over money .
3 However , long before Merrill reached London she regained her composure , and she handed over Luke 's passport without a blink , seeing no necessity to tell him that she 'd had to search his house for it .
4 Louis promised to help the Poitevins recover their losses , while they handed over hostages as a guarantee that they would keep their side of the bargain .
5 The trial of two blackmailers who preyed on homosexuals , by threatening to publicise their activities unless they handed over money , has ended sensationally , with the two accused admitting they carried out the crimes .
6 Two men have admitted extorting homosexuals by threatening to publicise their activities unless they handed over cash .
7 Normally he handed over responsibility for the routine maintenance of their relationship to Ellen , but she was letting him down , so he was going to try the only technique he knew : drop some explosive overboard and see what floated to the surface .
8 It ticks off a litany of mistakes from its dependence on mainframes through to the conscious suppression of RISC technology and the grotesque series of blunders by which it handed over control of PCs to Intel and Microsoft .
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