Example sentences of "hand over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( He put his hand over the receiver . ) |
| 2 | ( He put his hand over the receiver again . ) |
| 3 | The Weekend comes preloaded with a 24-exposure ( ISO 400 ) colour-print film , so all you have to do is shoot and wind on , then hand over the whole camera to the developers at the end . |
| 4 | She put her hand over the receiver . |
| 5 | I want you to introduce the plan and then hand over the presentation to Klepner . |
| 6 | Once they heard her say , ‘ But Harry , you ca n't keep on — ’ And then she must have put a hand over the mouthpiece , because they did not hear anything else until , suddenly , another voice spoke . |
| 7 | The clerk behind the hatch asked for their empties before she 'd hand over the new bottles but they had n't got them . |
| 8 | The next instant he had his hand over the receiver and his hoarse whisper to Clarissa was ominous . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ An orderly run-down will be set in hand over the next five years , leading to a smaller , more flexible stockpile consisting principally of ready-to-eat food rather than raw commodities . ’ |
| 10 | And slept , half crouched , falling at last across the pillow , her right hand over the left wrist with its quiet pulse . |
| 11 | Incidentally , the Maltese have a delightful habit of carrying their political leaders by hand over the heads of the crowd . |
| 12 | Thus the teacher-in-role can decide from moment to moment whether to carry the burden of the pupils ' protection — ‘ My men ( a group of ‘ passive ’ children ) have this to say to you' is to be totally protective — or to remove that protection and hand over the power : ‘ My men have something to say to you … ! ’ |
| 13 | It had become quite acceptable for such a man , in his early sixties , to shift his money to safer investments , hand over the family home next to the workplace to his son , and move into a house in the suburbs from which he could maintain a benevolent but less taxing interest in family concerns . |
| 14 | A campesina spoke up , saying she too had seen him hand over the knife . |
| 15 | She touched her cheek wonderingly , cupping her hand over the kiss . |
| 16 | An open-work star map in stereographic projection ( known as the rete ) was in front of the tympan , and could be rotated by hand over the lines of altitude and azimuth . |
| 17 | He put his hand over the top of his glass . |
| 18 | But Selznick knew that he could not hand over the selection process to assistants . |
| 19 | Do not hand over the job of introducing formal appraisal to the personnel or organizational experts . |
| 20 | Engineers often introduce into factories new electronic machinery not because it is better than the old methods but to give management the upper hand over the workers |
| 21 | The ITV licensee lost its franchise to Carlton TV last year , and will hand over the reins to the London weekday franchise on December 31 . |
| 22 | To work out which way the pile runs , rub your hand over the carpet — it will feel smooth when running with the pile , and rough when going against the pile . |
| 23 | Mountbatten was to go out to India , announce an early and definite date for British departure , hand over the administrative machine in working order to a unitary government , and secure an alliance with that government in the form of membership of the Commonwealth , preferably with a military treaty . |
| 24 | Skilled players may choose to hook gently or draw the shot by aiming down the right side of the fairway and encouraging an early rotation of the right hand over the left prior to impact . |
| 25 | So the recording will not even begin until the patient has reached that point in his memory which he wishes to explore and , should it be necessary to move him forwards or backwards within that regression , I simply place my hand over the microphone so that the technique is not recorded . |
| 26 | The two men took liberal helpings but Ruth put her hand over the top of her glass when the flask came in her direction . |
| 27 | Rangers are four points clear of Aberdeen and also have a game in hand over the Dons . |
| 28 | He put his hand over the flame of the lamp and said to Stricker : ‘ Let me see her for as long as I can keep my hand in the flame . ’ |
| 29 | He watched in anxious silence as I ran a hand over the repairs he had begun on Masquerade . |
| 30 | Bonefish drew his hand over the abraded edges of the copper sheathing left on Masquerade 's hull . |