Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Oddly , much credit for this advance has also to be given to Pius X who , in 1909 , founded the Biblical Institute ( the Biblicum ) in Rome and handed it over to the charge of the Jesuits , the Dominicans having earlier founded the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem . |
| 32 | Er they went , had a look , took the appropriate action and er phoned the police and handed it over to the police . |
| 33 | ‘ Surely Maurice would have known what it was — and handed it over to the kidnappers accordingly . ’ |
| 34 | The poet picked it up and handed it over to the Time Lord . |
| 35 | ( Critics of the Keynesian approach often pointed an accusatory finger at this assumption , claiming that it removed wage theory from the hands of economists and handed it over to sociologists . |
| 36 | The woman took the money — understood to amount to several thousand pounds — to a pre-arranged drop-off point and handed it over to a member of the gang . |
| 37 | Harvey said , ‘ Yes , ’ very briefly , and handed it over before giving him the little 6.35-mm . |
| 38 | He picked garments up and turned them over with his fingertips , gingerly , as if they were disgusting . |
| 39 | They caught a suspicious individual one evening , and turned him over to the police ; but he turned out to be a frightened bilberry-picker who had lost his way . |
| 40 | She grabbed the edge of the page in both hands , and turned it over with a grunt of effort . |
| 41 | Sandison took the hat and turned it over in his hands . |
| 42 | Jack took it from her and turned it over in his hand . |
| 43 | They grabbed my arms and swung me over to a mat lying at the side then undid the strap around my ankles . |
| 44 | The three officers peered down the hill into the darkness of Wiltshire Lane and wished they could get in there and get it over with . |
| 45 | ‘ Wheel on Jeremy Beadle and get it over with . ’ |
| 46 | Shoot me now and get it over with ! ’ |
| 47 | ‘ I mean to find out , even if it entails keeping you here indefinitely , so you might as well start talking and get it over with . |
| 48 | Just pick up the receiver and get it over with . ’ |
| 49 | She dearly wanted a coffee and brandy to end this uncomfortable night but she wanted to say goodbye and get it over with more , and somehow the merriment of the people added to her stress . |
| 50 | ‘ Just open the stupid thing and get it over with . ’ |
| 51 | The policeman took her gently by the arm and walked her over to the counter . |
| 52 | He had written something on a scrap of paper and folded it over at the bottom . |
| 53 | Lorimer grinned and beckoned her over to the long windows . |
| 54 | The rise of the Greens had placed the SPD in a difficult position , in that any attempt to capture moderate votes might alienate existing party supporters and drive them over to the Greens . |
| 55 | Macmillan , the publisher , had a quantity of ‘ sheets ’ left over from the first printing and shipped them over to Appleton & Co. , the American publishers . |
| 56 | that if had relinquished all his responsibility regarding the mortgage and so on and signed it over to you , then you could have turned round and say alright that 's it , I 'm going to sell the house |
| 57 | He grabbed the paper back , scribbled something else and shoved it over to me again . |
| 58 | At the end of July , with Responsions successfully behind him as well as a happy celebratory birthday outing for Helen spent with Harry and Janet , Edward was still as hesitant as in his early letters to Hooton : ‘ May I bring a paper in manuscript and talk it over with you ? |
| 59 | Well , the immunologist from the clinic went in and evaluated Ron and basically told him that he had … that he was not going to live more than the most a few weeks , and he could have control over the time of his death if he wished , and that was his decision to make , and he should think about it and talk it over with me . |
| 60 | Think very carefully today and talk it over with Maggie . |