Example sentences of "hand over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That £150 million will be reduced after the liquidators have handed over the money they expect to recover ( at least £60 mil lion ) and possibly more if other claims are pursued by the DTI . |
| 2 | Fishermen willingly co-operated with the students , passed on information about dolphin sightings , and even handed over the bodies of dolphins accidentally taken in their fishing nets . |
| 3 | They have not handed over the arguments to be articulated by lawyers and scientists even now that they have taken the city and the tannery to court in a law-suit claim for $31 million . |
| 4 | The fact that John had handed over the reins of power to Miss Doris and Mr Smith seemed a great honour but his stipulation that they should keep and maintain the name and reputation of the business so long as it was possible to do so proved a massive task for them in later years . |
| 5 | The Papingo Trophy was traced to The Royal Company and on 7th June , 1951 , a contingent of Royal Archers paraded through Kilwinning and ceremoniously handed over the trophy to the joint care of the town council and the Ancient Society of Archers . |
| 6 | During the ceremony the main contractors and the architect formally handed over the building to him . |
| 7 | They were speaking minutes after Greenwich mayor Brian O'Sullivan had handed over the safety certificate to Charlton chairman Roger Alwen . |
| 8 | But as well as indicating strong loyalist sympathies in the town , he had to inform that these were evidently not shared by Bruce 's own nephew , the new Earl of Carrick , Edward Bruce 's second son , who was lord there now and had handed over the castle , with his allegiance , to the usurper . |
| 9 | The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown . |
| 10 | On all three occasions , Stewart has handed over the gloves to Blakey — even though he is clearly a far superior keeper . |
| 11 | The Prince carelessly handed over the sealed paper , then sent one of his Dutch aides to enquire about the identity of the girl in the diaphanous gold dress . |
| 12 | The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers . |
| 13 | The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers . |
| 14 | On 5 July 1966 that Congress , which had made him president For Life , revoked this decision and also handed over the authority to appoint Cabinets to General Suharto . |
| 15 | Once clear of the cloud , she had handed over the controls to him and taught him how to use the power and propeller pitch levers , how to bank the plane sharply , how to descend and climb with power and nose attitude . |
| 16 | All the same , he was in no doubt that Matthew Glynn had handed over the contents of the cardboard box to Swayne with a view to some sort of deal . |
| 17 | He may have told you we 've now handed over the Nissan Sunny to John and replaced it with a new bright-red Micra ( the one with the cuddly toy-car image ) . |
| 18 | More news about Jack is the announcement that he has handed over the reins of the Midland Embalming School to John Davis who , apart from being a trade embalmer has a varied background in nursing , counselling , laboratory work and school teaching . |
| 19 | JACK Lee , whose name will always be associated with the Midland School of Embalming , which he founded just after the war and from which he has trained many hundreds of embalmers the world over , has decided to take more of a ‘ back seat ’ and has handed over the principal 's chair to John Davis , although he will still be ‘ in the wings ’ as an advisory tutor . |
| 20 | Roger Flemington FCIB , took the chair and , at the conclusion of the meeting , formally handed over the Presidency to Sir Jeremy Morse KCMG , FCIB . |
| 21 | Michele lifted out Luce 's bag , passed her the crutch , and , having handed over the car keys , led her through the crush of people and vehicles to the steps that ran down to the Grand Canal . |
| 22 | The Grant dynasty is assured , with Mr Sandy having recently handed over the post of managing director to his nephew . |
| 23 | ‘ We are glad the owner has handed over the pictures of his own free will rather than selling them on the Western art market . ’ |
| 24 | pictures , lists , etc. , can be shown ( possibly in a randomized order ) and samples can be handed over the inspection |
| 25 | The fighting in our immediate area seemed to have quietened down as we handed over the prisoners to join , I would think , about a couple of hundred , all gathered together in a field close to the orchard . |
| 26 | The most important conscious attempt to solve the succession problem was made by Leopold Senghor in Senegal , who successfully handed over the presidency to Abdou Diop in 1980 after the re-introduction of a multi-party system in 1977 . |
| 27 | Mr Mengistu handed over the reins , ad interim , to Lieutenant-General Tesfaye Gebre Kidan . |
| 28 | Not so long as they handed over the pound notes — though smiling Clyde took most of those , the greedy sod . |
| 29 | Jeremy , who pays to play for two sides every weekend , handed over the £5 fine after club officials checked the meaning of the words . |
| 30 | Those full-time farmers who handed over the holding to a family member at the age of 65 years were entitled to a larger state pension . |