Example sentences of "over to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Murray spent £50,000 on setting up his restaurant at Telegraph Hill , near Exeter , Devon , two years ago but said the business started to go downhill when he handed it over to a manager to run . |
| 2 | Or should development be given over to a broad church of interest groups and realised by a catholic mix of architects working in a number of complementary styles ? |
| 3 | From time to time one of the team got to his feet , went over to a neat pile of mortar bombs , picked one up and slid it gently down the muzzle of the mortar . |
| 4 | But peasants also complained when what they called ‘ doctors ’ came out to inspect their cattle and sanitary arrangements , or when two peasants who had murdered their wives had to be handed over to a visiting ‘ social court ’ ( obshchestvennyi sud ) set up by a shefstvo team . |
| 5 | Maybe so , though it is still nice to see that principles still count for something , particularly when it comes to refusing to buy something you already own or turning that hand-out of shares over to a deserving charity at the expense of an easy-come , easy-go profit . |
| 6 | After the election , the bosses allowed Mr Kaifu to continue as prime minister on the strict understanding that he would hand over to a heavyweight like the former foreign minister , Mr Shintaro Abe , when the going got rough . |
| 7 | I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance . |
| 8 | Everything that has gone before is apprenticeship ( especially the thirteen thousand words or uncharacteristically slapdash prose inadvertently handed over to a person whose only chance of later fame lies in the possibility of aspiring to the status of a footnote in the scholarly biography of my life and work which someone , even now , is probably contemplating ) . |
| 9 | Always a favourite in London , the Russian star who opted for the West in 1974 is now in his mid-forties — absolutely the right time to change over to a repertoire well within his present compass . |
| 10 | ‘ One man 's trash is another man 's treasure , ’ Totter said in a maddeningly calm voice , wandering over to a lower shelf as she did so . |
| 11 | She went over to a man sitting on a front doorstep . |
| 12 | ‘ Does he know this is a museum now ? ’ he asked , and then walked over to a glass-fronted bookcase . |
| 13 | The full reality of the war came home to Tony when a soldier beckoned him over to a lorry and opened the back doors . |
| 14 | Since the monks were thrown out of Prague in 1954 , the cloisters of the monastery have been given over to a display of Czech illuminated manuscripts , printing techniques and modern literature . |
| 15 | Across the stretch of water are the three other islands , the Střelecký , where archers trained in their craft ; the Dětský or Jews ' Island , now given over to a children 's playground ; and the Slovanský which used to have a fine dance hall . |
| 16 | Then he heard Boy say ‘ Yes , ’ and then he heard the TV change ; Boy had got up and turned it over to a boxing match , which was something Boy never usually watched . |
| 17 | Newman walked over to a small wall cupboard . |
| 18 | Kuhlmann walked over to a large-scale wall-map of the Federal Republic . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 've been so hoping you would soon be ready to join Brownies , but how can I pass over to a Brownie Guider a girl who wo n't lend a hand without being given something first and who does n't know the first thing about being obedient ? ’ |
| 21 | The commission considered that ‘ no producer should be entitled to rid himself of all responsibility for the waste simply by handing it over to a contractor for disposal ’ , and it recommended that the duty should be enshrined in legislation . |
| 22 | Service suggested to the manager that the cash fee be paid over to a charity , and this was done . |
| 23 | The procedure can , of course , easily be handed over to a computer . |
| 24 | As I left my GP — he was passing me over to a surgeon — and he shook my hand and wished me luck — that in itself was a bad sign — neither the truth nor the meaning had really sunk in . |
| 25 | Karelius nodded and took his drink over to a small table by the window . |
| 26 | If scio was not thought adequate at classical law , the reason can be only that it did not make sufficiently clear that the testator intended a trustee to be legally obliged to make property over to a beneficiary . |
| 27 | Instead it was regular practice for a settlor to request a trustee to make property over to a third party . |
| 28 | After this he will be required to make it over to a family member , just as any heir who succeeded him from outside the family would be required to do . |
| 29 | ‘ Attention was called to the Company 's payment of £50 per annum to the Vicar of Stantonbury for managing these schools , seeing that they are about to be handed over to a School Board and it was agreed that the payment be continued as in respect of Sunday School management , but during the pleasure of the Board and to the present incumbent only ’ . |
| 30 | They reached over to a low table set between them , to take food from large dishes , with their fingers or a spoon , or smeared pieces of meat on the point of a knife . |