Example sentences of "hand over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But no-one gives a second glance to a frail Japanese man , who stands , cupping his hand over a cigarette , looking a little lost amid the general traffic . |
| 2 | If he held his hand over a flowering plant , he could sense in himself the healing properties of that flower . |
| 3 | President Ian Plaistowe will hand over a silver paper knife to Janice Ince , a project accountant at Credit Suisse . |
| 4 | Her parents , Lord and Lady Romsey , will hand over a cheque from the Leonora Knatchbull Research Fellowship , for child cancer research at London 's St Bartholomew 's Hospital . |
| 5 | Indeed for the refusal of food and drink there are a range of different visual signals : in different societies this may be signalled by putting a hand over a glass , by putting one 's knife and fork in a particular way or by shaking one 's head in a particular manner . |
| 6 | Parrott will hand over a cue , which has been autographed by the quarter finalists in this year 's world snooker championships , to be auctioned . |
| 7 | Middlesbrough Mayor Coun Eddie Bolland will hand over a cheque from Middlesbrough Council 's community chest to help the photography project . |
| 8 | ( He put his hand over the receiver . ) |
| 9 | ( He put his hand over the receiver again . ) |
| 10 | The Weekend comes preloaded with a 24-exposure ( ISO 400 ) colour-print film , so all you have to do is shoot and wind on , then hand over the whole camera to the developers at the end . |
| 11 | She put her hand over the receiver . |
| 12 | I want you to introduce the plan and then hand over the presentation to Klepner . |
| 13 | Once they heard her say , ‘ But Harry , you ca n't keep on — ’ And then she must have put a hand over the mouthpiece , because they did not hear anything else until , suddenly , another voice spoke . |
| 14 | The clerk behind the hatch asked for their empties before she 'd hand over the new bottles but they had n't got them . |
| 15 | The next instant he had his hand over the receiver and his hoarse whisper to Clarissa was ominous . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ An orderly run-down will be set in hand over the next five years , leading to a smaller , more flexible stockpile consisting principally of ready-to-eat food rather than raw commodities . ’ |
| 17 | And slept , half crouched , falling at last across the pillow , her right hand over the left wrist with its quiet pulse . |
| 18 | Incidentally , the Maltese have a delightful habit of carrying their political leaders by hand over the heads of the crowd . |
| 19 | Thus the teacher-in-role can decide from moment to moment whether to carry the burden of the pupils ' protection — ‘ My men ( a group of ‘ passive ’ children ) have this to say to you' is to be totally protective — or to remove that protection and hand over the power : ‘ My men have something to say to you … ! ’ |
| 20 | It had become quite acceptable for such a man , in his early sixties , to shift his money to safer investments , hand over the family home next to the workplace to his son , and move into a house in the suburbs from which he could maintain a benevolent but less taxing interest in family concerns . |
| 21 | A campesina spoke up , saying she too had seen him hand over the knife . |
| 22 | She touched her cheek wonderingly , cupping her hand over the kiss . |
| 23 | An open-work star map in stereographic projection ( known as the rete ) was in front of the tympan , and could be rotated by hand over the lines of altitude and azimuth . |
| 24 | He put his hand over the top of his glass . |
| 25 | But Selznick knew that he could not hand over the selection process to assistants . |
| 26 | Do not hand over the job of introducing formal appraisal to the personnel or organizational experts . |
| 27 | Engineers often introduce into factories new electronic machinery not because it is better than the old methods but to give management the upper hand over the workers |
| 28 | The ITV licensee lost its franchise to Carlton TV last year , and will hand over the reins to the London weekday franchise on December 31 . |
| 29 | To work out which way the pile runs , rub your hand over the carpet — it will feel smooth when running with the pile , and rough when going against the pile . |
| 30 | Mountbatten was to go out to India , announce an early and definite date for British departure , hand over the administrative machine in working order to a unitary government , and secure an alliance with that government in the form of membership of the Commonwealth , preferably with a military treaty . |