Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] over to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy was left to kick around by the unmanned Reservations desk for a couple of minutes , and then a waiter appeared to lead her over to the table . |
| 2 | He bribed an operator at the transmat port to send us over to the space docks . |
| 3 | Each evening when we tidied away our papers I expected Edward to invite me over to the Lodge for a drink or a meal , and the invitation was not extended . |
| 4 | The AR-WACC Women 's Desk was closed this year because it was time to turn it over to an existing women 's group which would take the programme to a new phase in its development as well as broadening the network . |
| 5 | Hermann Neuberger , the chairman of the International Football Federation World Cup organising committee , said players who had been shown the yellow card once during qualifying games would not have to carry it over to the finals . |
| 6 | Hermann Neuberger , the chairman of the International Football Federation World Cup organising committee , said players who had been shown the yellow card once during qualifying games would not have to carry it over to the finals . |
| 7 | I told my father I was trying to get them over to the far side , to the mainland , and that the ones I had to bury , the ones which fell short , were victims of scientific research , but I doubt I really needed this excuse , my father never seemed bothered about the suffering of lower forms of life , despite having been a hippy , and perhaps because of his medical training . |
| 8 | They pulled me up off the floor with my hands up behind my back and they were walking me out of the chemist with my arms up and my head pushed down and one of them was kicking me in the back of my legs to get me over to the car . |
| 9 | That 's where fellows called to pick them up , or to take them over to a pub for a pint . |
| 10 | And er he , he could use the er h his vestry or another room at the , the church but somebody calling in the evening , he 's not going to take them over to a a cold room for an interview . |
| 11 | Surely the man had enough sense to take him over to the other corner , where aged Chevrolets lay wearily beside battered Valiants , motorbikes and scooters . |
| 12 | He took us out in his boat a couple of times , and he offered to take us over to the Treshnish Isles , but the forecast was n't too good , so we never made it . |
| 13 | Given the tension here was one of humiliation , that can be sufficient in itself to sustain the momentum , especially as this workhouse scene comes at a critical point in the sequence structure — for they have already in an earlier lesson experienced the well-intentioned caring of the ‘ lady ’ who housed these girls out of pity but was obliged to hand them over to the authorities . |
| 14 | To hand them over to the Russians is condemning them to slavery , torture and probably death . |
| 15 | Harold Macmillan 's diary entry describing his meeting at Klagenfurt on 13 May ( only a day after the last group had surrendered ) states that he was informed that " among the surrendered Germans are about 40,000 Cossacks and " White " Russians with their wives and children " , and he notes that " to hand them over to the Russians is condemning them to slavery , torture and probably death . |
| 16 | It was a relief to hand them over to the kennelmaid . |
| 17 | As much as I would like to hand you over to the police , I have no choice but to keep my suspicions to myself . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I ought to hand you over to the police . |
| 19 | He threatened to hand her over to the police if she had any more of it . |
| 20 | But they refused to hand him over to the US for trial and the coup crumbled when American troops stationed in Panama retaliated by ignoring their pleas for help against loyal troops . |
| 21 | The FO noted that he had provided ‘ valuable assistance ’ to the allied cause as Prime Minister after Italy 's surrender in 1943 , and that it would be ‘ inopportune ’ to hand him over to the Ethiopians . |
| 22 | " Clearly , your son is guilty of trespass , and we should be within our rights to hand him over to the Justices , " Sir Gregory said , standing very straight-backed by the table , while Harry glowered at him from the hearth . |
| 23 | The Croatian Defence Minister , Martin Spegelj , was the sixth accused but Croatia had refused to hand him over to the JNA . |
| 24 | Attempts were made to bring Erich Honecker , the former East German party and government leader , to trial on charges of giving the " shoot-to-kill " order to guards preventing illegal border-crossings , but the Soviet Union , where Honecker and his wife were , refused to hand him over to the German authorities [ see pp. 37828-29 ; 38110 ; for June sentencing of Harry Tisch see pp. 37967 ; 38298 ] . |
| 25 | He ought to hand it over to the experts . |
| 26 | After this he will be required to make it over to a family member , just as any heir who succeeded him from outside the family would be required to do . |
| 27 | In simple trusts for restitution of property , there are two options : either the trustee is in possession of the property under an obligation to make it over to the beneficiary at some point in the future ; or else the beneficiary is already in possession . |