Example sentences of "[noun] was handed over to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fittingly , the winning team trophy was handed over to Lance Corporal Manning 's widow , Elaine . |
| 2 | The RAF 's Vulcan XH558 bomber was handed over to the Walton family by the station commander at RAF Waddington , Lincolnshire . |
| 3 | Undoubtedly Richard was handed over to a wet-nurse . |
| 4 | The new minibus was handed over to the school yesterday in a ceremony attended by governors and members of the Eastbourne Parent Teachers Association . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His debt gathering work was handed over to a colleague once the legal aspects of it had been sorted out . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One year later the Saar was handed over to West Germany . |
| 10 | Security sources said Major George Serhal was handed over to the former Lebanese president , Suleiman Franjieh . |
| 11 | The document , written at the time , quoted Maj. Botha as saying that the " Chief Minister was very emotional when a copy of the receipt was handed over to him . |
| 12 | The campaign was swift ; Sigismund was handed over to Chlodomer and murdered , together with his wife and children ; their corpses were thrown down a well . |
| 13 | The cake was handed over to the Friarage Hospital yesterday . |
| 14 | A BRISTOL City ball-boy was handed over to police during a bad-tempered second half at Ashton Gate . |
| 15 | Magwitch 's thick wallet was handed over to the police , and Wemmick was quite annoyed with me about it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The phone was handed over to Erika , who confirmed the trip and then gave the phone to her mother , who exchanged a few banalities and then handed it to Omi , who cooed and clucked and finally returned it to Herr Nordern who said , briefly , that they all looked forward very much to seeing Karl again and firmly replaced the receiver before anyone else could claim it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A £162,000 pools payout was handed over to four community projects in the Highlands yesterday by Ross , Cromarty and Skye MP , Charles Kennedy , on behalf of the Foundation for Sport and the Arts , which is funded through Littlewoods , Vernons and Zetters . |
| 21 | His Congo campaign achieved its preliminary aim in 1908 when the Free State was handed over to Belgium , and thereafter had some success in pressing the latter to adopt specific reforms , despite the reluctance of the British and French governments to antagonize Belgium , on whose friendship their European policies depended . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Cárdenas city government was handed over to the PRD . |
| 24 | Some 10 months after breaking ground ( see Spring 1993 issue of Assay ) , the newly completed Technical Centre was handed over to Johnson Matthey , by Taisei Kensetsu , the main engineering and construction contractor for the KITEC project . |
| 25 | The cup was handed over to our regional director , Mike Mann by safety director , Brian Cowie at a special presentation attended by all staff . |
| 26 | A cheque for that amount was handed over to CRMF by Julie Skillington who raised the highest individual sponsorship total of £178 . |
| 27 | But now we can quite justifiably say , that land was handed over to you in excellent condition . |
| 28 | Aitken asserted at the trial , and this view was certainly supported by independent witnesses , that no word about confidentiality was ever uttered , but the document was handed over to him on the footing that it would be returned within a very short time . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He continued until 1965 , when the NCLC was handed over to the TUC . |