Example sentences of "and hand [pers pn] over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On each overseas train , a team of fitters and lifters from the Works accompanied them to their destination and handed them over to the RAMC coupled up , and ready for use . |
| 2 | Talbot looked at them and handed them over to Hawkins . |
| 3 | He denounced the entire coven of Slaanesh worshippers , including his mother , and handed them over to the Phoenix King . |
| 4 | The manager chased Cowen , who is arthritic , and handed him over to police . |
| 5 | We tied his arms behind his back and handed him over to the next village headman we encountered . |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't want you collapsing on us — not good for the department 's reputation , ’ she joked lightly , and wheeled him round and handed him over to his wife . |
| 7 | On one such incident I was in command of Venturous patrolling in the Straits of Dover at the end of a very busy Bank Holiday , during which we had followed a suspect yacht from just outside Calais , and handed her over to our special unit in Dover . |
| 8 | But the tales that were told were not only gruesome but frightening — in fact sickening is probably a better word — of what happened to you if the desert Arab got hold of you and handed you over to his womenfolk . |
| 9 | She took it through to the kitchen where she and her friend were breakfasting and handed it over without speaking , then watched Stella 's face as she read . |
| 10 | There you will see the sign , a big board … that 's where … he smiled his big smile again as he tore off the piece of paper and handed it over to me . |
| 11 | On an impulse he returned to the bar , took off his own hat , the one he had bought on Maidstone 's advice , and handed it over to Franco for safe keeping . |
| 12 | He pulled a sheet from one of the beds , spread it on the floor , opened up wardrobes and drawers , scooped up armfuls of clothes — there was no time to make any kind of selection and even if there had been he would have been unable to pick and choose , they were all women 's clothing — dumped them on the sheet , tied up the four corners , lugged the bundle up the companionway and handed it over to Riley . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Er they went , had a look , took the appropriate action and er phoned the police and handed it over to the police . |
| 15 | ‘ Surely Maurice would have known what it was — and handed it over to the kidnappers accordingly . ’ |
| 16 | The poet picked it up and handed it over to the Time Lord . |
| 17 | ( 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Harvey said , ‘ Yes , ’ very briefly , and handed it over before giving him the little 6.35-mm . |
| 20 | The building societies are also under pressure to spend more money buying up empty properties and handing them over for rental . |
| 21 | Some of the near contemporary songs which have survived from the period describe Rodrigo himself as capturing Garcia and handing him over to the brothers . |
| 22 | The Germans , defeated , suffering every form of deprivation , were not and could hardly be expected to be enthusiastic about dismantling the only source of their livelihood and handing it over to the hated Russians . |
| 23 | We count the florid banknotes and hand them over across the desk . |
| 24 | It was claimed that trustees of the NUM ( the President , the Vice-President and the Secretary ) were in breach of their duties and the High Court ordered them to recover these assets and hand them over to the sequestrators . |
| 25 | All I had to do was to train chicks on either methylanthranilate or water and hand them over to Roger , who would disappear into the neurophysiology lab with them and emerge many hours later with reams of paper which he would begin to analyse . |
| 26 | The best programs allow the teacher to gain basic skills in using them and to hand them over to pupils after a short introduction . |