Example sentences of "[pers pn] handed over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I handed over a Ford transit van and its human contents to the Sussex constabulary . |
| 2 | I handed over a coin : that meant I 'd only got two left , but it was the fattest and quickest-gobbled 10p I 've ever spent . |
| 3 | I handed over a plethora of retirement gifts from her colleagues and wished her a long and happy retirement . |
| 4 | Superintendent Mercer arrived shortly afterwards and I handed over the key of the Biology Lab to him . " |
| 5 | Reluctantly I handed over the axe and made way for him , then stood , stretching my back . |
| 6 | She handed over a pink-tissued shape dripping with silver bows and gaudy ribbons . |
| 7 | Within moments I had decided to strip her to her expensive banker 's underclothing , lash her to a Quattrocento day-bed with fur-lined leather manacles , and whip her with unimaginable delicacy until she handed over a full power of attorney and yielded herself totally in a frenzy of self-abnegation . |
| 8 | She handed over a small metal cylinder . |
| 9 | She handed over a neatly wrapped ‘ mixed bunch ’ to one customer , with a chatty , ‘ Here you are , love , ’ and moved swiftly on to the next . |
| 10 | Lindsey smiled sympathetically as she handed over a prescription . |
| 11 | She handed over the pawn ticket . |
| 12 | They took her to her stall in the market , demanding she handed over the arms and propaganda they accused her of storing there . |
| 13 | She handed over the small package , and then ran her gaze once more over the chaos in the office . |
| 14 | She handed over the numbers , and said goodbye . |
| 15 | She handed over the corkscrew . |
| 16 | At Naba we were overtaken by the hospital train and discovered that their food supply had run out , so we handed over a whole case of sausages and one of tinned peaches . |
| 17 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 18 | We handed over the stamped forms , which he gave to the koko for safe keeping . |
| 19 | ‘ We handed over the keys and MoT . |
| 20 | Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod . |
| 21 | Until 1948 the British ruled Palestine , but on 15th May that year the British mandate came to an end , and they handed over the country to the Jews . |
| 22 | He handed over a credit card to pay his bill . |
| 23 | He handed over a ring and an amulet that I recognised . |
| 24 | First he handed over a bundle of Russian paper money that was little bigger than a wad of visiting cards , and some coins jangled . |
| 25 | THE Mayor of Middlesbrough , Coun Eddie Bolland , supported pedal power when he handed over a tandem to a group helping blind and partially-sighted people take part in cycling and sport . |
| 26 | And he handed over the letter ( which had creased beautifully in his pocket ) with just the right note of impatient politeness . |
| 27 | He handed over the sarnies — ham and mustard in brown bread — to the usher , saying : ‘ His need is greater than mine . ’ |
| 28 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 29 | The Department owes a great deal to Noel Thomas and it is a measure of his success as Chairman that when at the end of the 1989 academic year he handed over the hot seat to Angus Easson , the latter 's first task was one of consolidation . |
| 30 | He handed over the keys to Angoulême and Montignac and their walls too were razed to the ground . |