Example sentences of "[modal v] hand " in BNC.
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| 31 | The one the Federation produced is very good , but a lot of reading in it , so , we wanted one we could hand out to people and the the intention is that we , we go on the market next week Thursday and Friday to hand out that leaflet , also to advertise the meeting on the tenth , erm , so that really is as far , and obviously the meetings that , that Lilly just said that Kathy 's coming , that would be an opportunity to erm you know , discuss it further with her . |
| 32 | You could hand the overcoat over to your son when you 'd finished with it ; and he could hand it over to his son . ’ |
| 33 | And if I can , then it would be a lever you could hand to him . ’ |
| 34 | If at any time after a person has been charged with or informed he may be prosecuted for an offence a police officer wishes to bring to the notice of that person any written statement made by another person or the content of an interview with another person , he shall hand to that person a true copy of any such written statement or bring to his attention the content of the interview record , but shall say or do nothing to invite any reply or comment save to caution him in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above . |
| 35 | I do not approach this question thinking only about how we shall hand ancient privileges over to foreigners . |
| 36 | Well I shall hand it back , if I 'm a single person , I 'm entitled to one of them single people 's bus then are n't I ? |
| 37 | These are the establishment of an ethical committee which would weed out corrupt party officials , the disbanding of the notorious workers guard , a declaration that the new party would hand back to the nation a substantial chunk of the old party loot , and a resolution calling on all parties , including their own , to withdraw from workplaces . |
| 38 | Then the first set of bindings that the reference resolver would hand to the plausibility checker would involve the dog biting itself . |
| 39 | PRESIDENT REAGAN is weighing up a report which would hand control of the US 's weather and remote-sensing satellites to private enterprise . |
| 40 | He would hand it to the Colonel : given the motivation they could , by God , do things right . |
| 41 | One wonders if our worthy Bishop Russel were to see the sporting activities taking place today especially in the Holy weeks and time spent in the worship of television what punishments he would hand out . |
| 42 | As she plodded through her notes she decided that at the end of the month she would hand in her notice , and on the day she left she would brandish Elise 's diary before his eyes . |
| 43 | There was no Madame Eglantine , only a garrulous old man who chattered like a magpie , took the package and said he would hand it over to the lady next time she visited the place . |
| 44 | The supermarket may hand out pretty green-and-white leaflets boasting its environmental concerns . |
| 45 | So , let's hand over to you , Liz , and we 'll focus on press |
| 46 | Now that you are here he will hand and deliver . ’ |
| 47 | The 28th and last Governor of Hong Kong must captain the territory until midnight , June 30 , 1997 , when he will hand back Britain 's last important colony to China . |
| 48 | I will hand myself in as soon as they free Boler or I am required to give evidence at Boler 's appeal . |
| 49 | When that happens , Sarajevo 's defenders will hand in their light arms , heavily armed Serb besiegers will withdraw with their weapons — and tens of thousands of those in the city will bolt . |
| 50 | All of this leaves us asking what we will hand on to our children , to our neighbours and to our friends . |
| 51 | Pity the faith he will hand on to his child . |
| 52 | I will hand on that gene complete to half my offspring , because all my offspring will get half my genes . |
| 53 | Polite brides will hand out more cards to thank guests for sharing their special day . |
| 54 | Even if you do make the highest offer for any particular item , the auctioneer can hand it over to another , friendlier-looking buyer instead . |
| 55 | This has meant that we can hand down information and accumulated experience from generation to generation , in spoken and eventually in written form . |
| 56 | If so , you can give it to me to keep clean and I can hand it to you when you want it . |
| 57 | His idea is that you can vote if if the voter in your constit if a person you vote for in your own constituency loses , you can then switch your vote to anyone else in the country and erm you can have a list of maybe ten or twenty people and erm you will so you 'll hand in your ballot paper with all these names on , signed ballot paper because it has to be public you can hand in your signed ballot paper with all these names on and if your own candidate loses , then er your vote goes to your second person and if that person loses it goes to the third and so on . |
| 58 | the er the bigger one the half A three , it erm they are meant really to be targeted for people coming through that they can hand information to . |
| 59 | Oh I 'm sorry my Lord perhaps I could read the passage out and then er I can hand it up to your Lordship but it after setting out the dictor from Mr Justice in the Midland Bank . |
| 60 | He is sure to take some beating with more enterprising tactics and can hand out a lesson in the New University Maiden . |