Example sentences of "was handed [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the flask was handed over to a nice woman who would fill it with soup , probably ‘ potage de Jean-Claude speciale au tomat de can ’ , in the morning . |
| 2 | A CHEQUE for £250 was handed over to a group of intrepid disabled skiers at Lord Mayor Treloar 's College , Froyle , this week . |
| 3 | His debt gathering work was handed over to a colleague once the legal aspects of it had been sorted out . |
| 4 | Undoubtedly Richard was handed over to a wet-nurse . |
| 5 | Security sources said Major George Serhal was handed over to the former Lebanese president , Suleiman Franjieh . |
| 6 | Soon after arriving at Marshall Malinovsky 's headquarters in Debrezcin on 17 January 1945 , Wallenberg was handed over to the NKVD , the predecessor of the KGB , and disappeared . |
| 7 | He continued until 1965 , when the NCLC was handed over to the TUC . |
| 8 | He continued as secretary until 1965 , when the NCLC was handed over to the TUC . |
| 9 | He was handed over to the terribly liberal ( sorry , I think that should be liberally terrible ) dictator by Mr David Steel , hard-line leader of a British political grouping engaged in the notorious Lib-Lab pact , at a time when Ceausescu was still wildly popular . |
| 10 | It was handed over to the National Trust in 1956 . |
| 11 | On 1 July 1932 , the electricity undertaking of the South Metropolitan company was handed over to the London & Home Counties Joint Electricity Authority , who already supplied the current in bulk . |
| 12 | Refused by all , he doggedly returned to Scotland and carried on guerilla warfare until , captured by further treachery , he was handed over to the English by the sheriff of Dumbarton . |
| 13 | Eastcote was handed over to the military and the German seamen , after a temporary stay at the Alexandra Palace , were condemned to live behind barbed wire and fixed bayonets ; Alton Abbey had already been closed . |
| 14 | Magwitch 's thick wallet was handed over to the police , and Wemmick was quite annoyed with me about it . |
| 15 | He was handed over to the British army and sent back to England . |
| 16 | He was quickly driven to Damascus where he was handed over to the US chargé d'affaires , John Craig . |
| 17 | The Cárdenas city government was handed over to the PRD . |
| 18 | Leith Nautical College agreed to operate a pre-sea training scheme for Cadets and Deck Boys on board the ship and the vessel was handed over to the Dolphin Training Ship Society , the ship in turn being rented to the College . |
| 19 | When the power of the higher civil service declined after 1942 and the state administration became absorbed into the party structure , the running of the economy was handed over to the most powerful monopolists . |
| 20 | The money was handed over to the Geriatric Unit at Belfast City Hospital by Mrs Alison Chick . |
| 21 | The cake was handed over to the Friarage Hospital yesterday . |
| 22 | The new minibus was handed over to the school yesterday in a ceremony attended by governors and members of the Eastbourne Parent Teachers Association . |
| 23 | A health board spokesman said the wages ' computer tape was handed over to the Clydesdale Bank on Wednesday , as normal , which would have allowed processing of the £1,360,000 wage bill in time for withdrawal yesterday . |
| 24 | The RAF 's Vulcan XH558 bomber was handed over to the Walton family by the station commander at RAF Waddington , Lincolnshire . |
| 25 | From 1969 the direction and administration of programmes was handed over to an African organisation ( SEPA ) with its headquarters in Accra , though training for Science Educators is offered under its auspices at Njala , Sierra Leone . |
| 26 | The cathedral was begun by Russian architects in 1471 but part of the building collapsed in the earthquake of 1472 so the work was handed over to an Italian architect and engineer , Aristotele Fioravanti from Bologna . |
| 27 | The latter , aptly plate number 617 , was handed on to the squadron 's current commanding officer Wing Commander Jonathon Dickinson . |
| 28 | It is now six months since the report was handed in to the Department of Industry — as long as it took to prepare the report in the first place . |
| 29 | The cordon , supported by joint mobile patrols from the RUC and other elements of the battalion , remained in place until the whole area was declared clear at 1600 hours on 30 June , and responsibility for operations in the area was handed back to the police . |