Example sentences of "handed over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The most important conscious attempt to solve the succession problem was made by Leopold Senghor in Senegal , who successfully handed over the presidency to Abdou Diop in 1980 after the re-introduction of a multi-party system in 1977 . |
| 3 | Mr Mengistu handed over the reins , ad interim , to Lieutenant-General Tesfaye Gebre Kidan . |
| 4 | Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod . |
| 5 | Jeremy , who pays to play for two sides every weekend , handed over the £5 fine after club officials checked the meaning of the words . |
| 6 | Those full-time farmers who handed over the holding to a family member at the age of 65 years were entitled to a larger state pension . |
| 7 | In Italy , a general strike in May 1922 , enabled Mussolini 's Fascists to drive the Communist Administration of Bologna out of office , and later that year , Mussolini unseated the government and handed over the administration to the King and the Army , which left the Italian King with little alternative but to ask Mussolini to form a new government , which was sworn-in on 31st . |
| 8 | Significantly , the form of written agreement by which the father handed over the farm would make explicit not only his right to a room in the house , a place at the hearth , food , and the yield of a potato-patch and ‘ grass of a cow ’ , but also clear financial compensation if the arrangement broke down . |
| 9 | And he handed over the letter ( which had creased beautifully in his pocket ) with just the right note of impatient politeness . |
| 10 | The N.C. O. handed over the papers he had brought and after clicking his heels and saluting went back into the station without looking at me . |
| 11 | Mrs Dinwiddie ( Deputy Head , face square , lips pursed ) handed over the envelope — Fry , Caroline Olga . |
| 12 | Meryl handed over the last of the spoils , a nail file and some kind of newspaper cutting , then settled in her seat to give her full attention to the lecture . |
| 13 | The King now handed over the controversy to Andrewes . |
| 14 | Millions of TV viewers saw her gasp with surprise when Richard Madeley handed over the documents as a gift from ITV 's Richard and Judy Show . |
| 15 | But as Ryan Cosgrove handed over the oblong box , a red light flashed and it started ticking . |
| 16 | He handed over the sarnies — ham and mustard in brown bread — to the usher , saying : ‘ His need is greater than mine . ’ |
| 17 | In the Captain 's office the Substitute snapped his briefcase shut and his registrar handed over the warrants that had been made out for Rudolfo , Scano 's boy and the gamekeeper . |
| 18 | Harrison handed over the binoculars and twitched the wheel to port . |
| 19 | She handed over the pawn ticket . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | In 1970 New York City handed over the management of its clinics and hospitals ( accounting for about 20% of all general care discharges at that time ) to a new Health and Hospitals Corporation , with the purpose of freeing the management of the system from city bureaucracy , and enhancing its ability to raise revenue from Medicaid , Medicare , and private health insurance . |
| 22 | In June of last year , Koons handed over the fourth ‘ String of Puppies ’ to Art Rogers before a court deadline for doing so , and no fines were levied . |
| 23 | The building was provided from the bequest of Mr Kenneth Thelwall ( whose bequest has already funded two lifeboats ) and Mr Christopher Hobson , executor of the estate , handed over the building to the Institution following an address by the Mayor of Poole and Admiral of the Port , Councillor Mrs Anne Sibley . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Finally , Ricci got up and walked over to her daughter , who immediately handed over the troublesome hammer . |
| 27 | He handed over the keys to Angoulême and Montignac and their walls too were razed to the ground . |
| 28 | They took her to her stall in the market , demanding she handed over the arms and propaganda they accused her of storing there . |
| 29 | Instead Nixon claimed to be " Vietnamizing " the war by a phased withdrawal , which gradually handed over the conduct of the war to the South Vietnamese themselves . |
| 30 | She whispered Amyas 's name and handed over the letter . |