Example sentences of "hand [adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I recall it , I was a parcel , handed on to the next bloke at the end of the day . |
| 2 | After the first player has had his turn , he hands on to the second player . |
| 3 | The court ruling was handed down on the 21st anniversary of the first day of the police siege of Red Army commandos at a hotel on Mount Asama , north of Tokyo . |
| 4 | Admittedly , gifts during life will be taxed less heavily than bequests , provided that the donor survives the gift by four years , but even so it will be almost impossible for a thriving business or a farm of economic size to be handed down to the next generation . |
| 5 | His assertion that the problem remains and is handed down from the first generation of Homo sapiens to the present one in the institutions of religion and art seems to be , prima facie , very plausible . |
| 6 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 7 | They will be handed over at the next town in two days . |
| 8 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 9 | A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory . |
| 10 | Make sure you get a copy of the initial ( and any supplementary ) reading list(s) handed out at the first meeting with your class teachers . |
| 11 | There are many interesting facets of this complex diagnostic process and three are worthy of re-emphasis : firstly most of his information comes not from positive signals , stimuli or cues but from their absence , secondly he is relying on a hybrid model — a mixture of rules , mental pictures and symbolism , thirdly it all happens without very much conscious guidance — one mental or physical event leads to another and each event in the chain plays its part before handing over to the next one . |
| 12 | They have contributed only 39% of what the central government requires them to hand over in the first three months of the year . |