Example sentences of "hand out [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And none o' them knows the secret o' the tunnel , ’ thought Aunt Clarabel happily as she led her followers back to the Jolly Jailer and handed out free drinks to all . |
| 2 | But in the end I simply cashed my travellers " cheques and dodged the fuming puddles of Times Square handing out twenty-dollar bills to selected bums , whores , bagladies and time-cripples . |
| 3 | Customers clamour at the counter as thick as if they were handing out free tickets to Dublin . |
| 4 | OFF-LICENCES all over Ulster will be handing out free measures to customers next month — to help stop them getting sozzled on the sofa ! |
| 5 | However , this does n't mean we should pretend to love everyone and everything , handing out pink roses to passers-by in a sentimental haze . |
| 6 | The government 's Relief and Rehabilitation Commission is handing out weekly rations to about 500 people camping around the local office . |
| 7 | Two of them favoured refugees ; their conditions of work had to be at least as good as those offered to British workers , and their employers had to provide real training as opposed to handing out menial jobs to what was essentially cheap labour . |
| 8 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |