Handing Sentence Examples

He bent down and retrieved her shoes, handing them to her.

Handing out compliments seemed to be out of character for him, but hadn't he always been honest and direct?

I feel more like a ship's sailor in a storm, with shredded sails with someone handing me a needle and thread.

Handing him the washcloth, she sat out of arms' reach, afraid of what would happen if she touched him again.

He took the pen and paper and scrawled down a number before handing it to her.

The assassin obliged without question, stripping off weapons and handing them to Jule.

Thought you might be interested in something I found in Sean's notebook, Rourk said and rose, handing it to him.

Han watched, handing her a wet wash cloth when she was done.

Linda prodded, handing her the plate going around.

Fred ignored Dean and reached in his coat pocket and withdrew a letter, handing it to Cynthia.

Cynthia took care of his down time by handing him a list of needed provisions.

Handing her the keys, he smiled.

She stretched for the counter and tugged the bag off, handing it to him.

Ully said, handing her two glasses of whiskey.

The opponent of the eldest hesitated before handing her the weapon.

She handed Evelyn a small bowl of water and then moved to Kiera, handing her a translator.

How about handing it over?

He leaned across the coffee table and reached for Bird Song's guest register, handing it to Dean.

Handing Connor his, he asked, "You okay?"

Charlie asked, tapping the screen of Elise's micro before handing it back.

Winston had more to say but held off as Rita came by, handing him a cup of coffee.

Handing one to Carmen, she spoke gently.

Finally he glanced up, handing the clipboard to her.

She kept two out and joined Sofi and Bianca in the hallway, handing one to each.

Taran smiled and pulled off his mantle, handing it to the boy.

She lifted a puppy and turned, handing it to Carmen.

She showered and dressed, thinking about his offhanded way of handing out compliments.

Justin was handing the baby to his sister.

Though your choice of handing off the vamps to the Black God seems nearsighted.

The real beginning of English equity is to be found in the custom of handing over to that officer, for adjudication, the complaints which were addressed to the king, praying for remedies beyond the reach of the common law.

The bishop returned to his earldom and soon organized a rebellion with the object of handing over England to his eldest nephew, Duke Robert.

The dispensing of this rite is strictly reserved to an ordained minister, who is assisted by elders in handing the bread and the cup to the people.

Further to conciliate the Romans and especially Sulla,he sent to the Capitol a group of Victories guarding a device in gold showing Bocchus handing over Jugurtha to Sulla.

A husband claims his wife as his absolute property, but he has no scruple in handing her over for a time to another man.

This figure of speech refers, not to a basket or box in which things can be stored, but to the baskets, used in India in excavations, as a means of handing on the earth from one worker to another.

There is no handing on of privilege or pre-eminence to perpetual generations.

On the 19th of March he laid before the House his programme of reforms, which included the emancipation of the peasants from the control of the communes and the handing over to them of the crown lands and imperial estates.

Note the wooden castle on a mound, and the knight handing over the keys on his lance tip.

To obtain the support of the capitalists, Gaius Gracchus conceived the plan of creating friction between them and the senate, which he carried out by handing over to them the control (a) of the jury-courts, and (b) of the revenues of Asia.

He knew very well that the theologians of his church almost without exception held that the handing over of the paten and chalice with the words, " Receive power of offering sacrifice," &c., were the essential matter and form of ordination to the priesthood; indeed he published the decree of Eugenius IV.

In November the prevailing opinion was that the war was over, and Lord Roberts, who had been appointed commander-in-chief at home, left South Africa, handing over the command to Lord Kitchener.

The extremity of his financial straits reduced him soon afterwards to handing over his only son Philip to merchants as a pledge for loans of money.

It might not be easy to formulate precisely the doctrines for which he died, and certainly some of them, as, for example, that regarding the church, were such as many Protestants even would regard as unguarded and difficult to harmonize with the maintenance of external church order; but his is undoubtedly the honour of having been the chief intermediary in handing on from Wycliffe to Luther the torch which kindled the Reformation, and of having been one of the bravest of the martyrs who have died in the cause of honesty and freedom, of progress and of growth towards the light.

A process which is intended to produce penitence and ultimate restoration cannot at the same time contemplate handing the offender over to eternal punishment.

When he had left for the front, the emperor proceeded with Grouchy to reconnoitre the Prussian position at Gilly; and handing over the command of the right wing to the marshal, whom he ordered to capture Gilly, Napoleon returned to Charleroi, to hasten the passage of the French army across the Sambre and mass it in the gap between the allies.

As one result of the Franco-Prussian War, France in 1872 withdrew her garrisons, handing over the care of the establishments to a merchant named Verdier, to whom an annual subsidy of £800 was paid.

The disabilities under which a feudal owner very frequently lay gave rise to the practice of conveying land by other methods than that of feoffment with livery of seisin, that is, a handing over of the feudal possession.

It was assumed that the individual members of society, by express or implied pact, agree to obey some person or persons; sometimes it is described as an unqualified handing over; sometimes it is a transfer subject to qualifications, and with notice that in certain contingencies this will be withdrawn.

Then he abdicated in favour of Napoleon, handing over his people like a herd of cattle.

Frederick II., the new emperor created by Innocent, began by handing over his country to Rome and sacrificing the rights of the Empire to the union of the two great authorities of the Christian world.

The French authorities were hostile to the English missionaries, and even the handing over of part of the field to the Paris Evangelical Society did not do much to ease the situation.

Elizabeth was alarmed by the successes of the Spanish arms, and especially by the fall of Antwerp; and, though refusing the sovereignty, she agreed to send a force of s000 foot and I 000 horse to the aid of the Provinces under the command of the earl of Leicester, her expenses being - guaranteed by the handing over to her the towns of Flushing, Brill and Rammekens as pledges (loth of August 1585).

In works of art Triptolemus appears mounted on a chariot (winged or drawn by dragons, symbols of the fruitfulness of the earth), with Demeter and Persephone handing him the implements of agriculture.

In 1061 Abu Bakr made a division of the power he had established, handing over the more settled parts to his cousin Yusef ibn Tashfin, as viceroy, resigning to him also his favourite wife Zainab, who had the reputation of a sorceress.

In the same year Edward Baliol, after handing over his crown and the royalty of Scotland to Edward III., retired from active life, and Edward wasted the south in the raid of " The Burned Candlemas."

They showed that a philosophical theory is not an accident or whim, but an exponent of its age determined by its antecedents and environments, and handing on its results to the future.

At the instigation of the Korean ministry the emperor abdicated on the 19th of July 1907, handing over the crown to his son.

A decisive " moment " in the evolution of chiefship is the recognition of hereditary mana, bound up as this is with the handing on of ceremonies and cult-objects.

When the excommunication is removed, the symbol of reconciliation is the handing to the penitent of a burning taper.

In the Transvaal the burghers of British origin were about equal in number with those of Dutch origin, and the fairly even balance of parties might be held to be a guarantee against retrogression; in the Orange River Colony it was notorious that the grant of selfgovernment meant handing over the control of the country not simply to the Boers, but to that section of them which since the war had exhibited the greatest racial bitterness.

Charles expressed his willingness to consent to the handing over of the administration to the control of a Protestant, in the case of a Roman Catholic sovereign, but the Opposition insisted on Charles's nomination of Monmouth as his successor, and the parliament was accordingly once more (28th of March) dissolved by Charles, while a royal proclamation ordered to be read in all the churches proclaimed the ill-deeds of the parliament and the king's affection for the Protestant religion.

In August he joined with Spain and Holland in a manifesto against France, while secretly for a million livres he engaged himself to Louis, and in 1682 he proposed himself as arbitrator with the intention of treacherously handing over Luxemburg to France, an offer which was rejected owing to Spanish suspicions of collusion.

On Manuel's death, Maria, who had been immured in a convent under the name of Xene, had herself proclaimed regent (1179-1180), and handing over her son to evil counsellors, who encouraged him in every vice, supported the government of Alexius the protosebastos (nephew of Manuel), who was supposed to be her lover.

The handing over of impenitent persons, and those who had relapsed, to the secular power, and their punishment, did not usually take place on the occasion of an auto-da-fe, properly so called.

The official practice of the Frankish kings, which, as we have seen, was the means of handing down the Roman tradition of the use of the signet, was gradually imitated by high officers of state.

Immediately on erban's death the boiars, to prevent the Porte from handing over the office to the Greek adventurer who bid the highest, proceeded to elect his sister's son Constantine Brancovan.

This submission having been made, Edward acted with honesty and fairness, handing over the adjudication to a body of eighty Scottish and twenty-four English barons, knights and bishops.

Handing over the reins of government to his mother, he set out in 213 for Raetia, where he carried on war against the Alamanni; in 214 he attacked the Goths in Dacia, whence he proceeded by way of Thrace to Asia Minor, and in 215 crossed to Alexandria.

In contrast to Cavaignac he was the candidate of the advanced parties, but also of the monarchists, who reckoned on doing what they liked with him, and of the Catholics, who gave him their votes on condition of his restoring the temporal power to Rome and handing over education to the Church.

For a hundred years the great feudal lords had disposed of the crown as they pleased, handing it back an.d forward from one dynasty to another.

This reverse, together with the pressure of other business, induced him to leave Brandenburg in January 1426, after handing over its government to his eldest son, John.

He placed the goblet in front of each vampire, handing them the knife.  In turn, all six cut into the palm of their hands and collected their blood.

The Guardian was a man Darian didn't recognize, who spoke to Jonny for a brief moment before handing him a small note and disappearing.

The concept of handing their cash into a bank or building society in exchange for a slip of paper may seem alien to them.

The last police gun amnesty resulted in the public handing in some 25,000 guns.

Few people posed the question of whether we should be handing out such barbarity to beasts.

They should only be told that a pedophile is living nearby, so parents can be especially diligent, rather than handing out addresses.

The Central Intelligence Agency has publicly disavowed the likelihood of Mr Hussein's handing over his most prized weapons to Osama bin Laden.

Police in Southampton are handing out free lollipops to late-night revelers in an attempt to reduce violence on the streets.

Moreover, handing over 30-year contracts to private firms is pure madness.

They advised the purchase of a few sanitary napkins to tape to your knees and were handing out gloves to anyone who wanted them.

Ministers are looking at handing over a key element of the biggest pension shake-up in a generation to the private sector.

Roadshow staff will be handing out free reusable shopping bags and other recycling goodies as well as answering all your recycling queries.

Katri Saavalainen somehow became tentative at this point, handing over free balls to Cardiff Ladies.

Nobility, then, in the strict sense of the word, is the hereditary handing on from generation to generation of some acknow-.

Handing over the command to Soult, he hurried back to Paris to trample on the seeds of sedition and to overwhelm Austria by the blows which he showered upon her in the valley of the Danube.

According to this, Christ committed to his apostles certain powers of order and jurisdiction in the Church, among others that of transmitting these powers to others through "the laying on of hands"; and this power, whatever obscurity may surround the practice of the primitive Church (see Apostle, ad fin.) was very early confined to the order of bishops, who by virtue of a special consecration became the successors of the apostles in the function of handing on the powers and graces of the ministry.'

The conservatism which is a feature of proper names everywhere, in consequence of which the archaic traits of a language are frequently preserved in them, just as they are preserved in terms used in the ritual and in poetic diction, is sufficient to account for the interesting fact that the Semitic settlers of the Euphrates valley in handing down their names from one generation to another retained the custom of writing them in " Sumerian " fashion, or, as we might also put it, in "ideographic" form.

The practical result was the establishment of the hegemony of Holland in the Union, and the handing over of the control of its policy to the patrician oligarchies who formed the town councils of that province.

On the 10th of June 1904 he addressed a meeting of the Liberal League at the Queen's Hall, London, and sketched, a programme of "sane and practical Imperialism"; but he irritated the Home Rulers by again repudiating a parliament in Dublin, and he perplexed the public generally by his adverse criticism on the popular Anglo-French Agreement, which he was the only English statesman to oppose, on the ground of its handing over Morocco to France.

It is the rule and custom of the cupbearer to pour out a little of the wine and taste it before handing the cup to me.

What about Austria? said he, rising from his chair and pacing up and down the room followed by Tikhon, who ran after him, handing him different articles of clothing.

This meant that Tikhon was not handing him the waistcoat he wanted.

Here are two letters from Count Nostitz and here is one from His Highness the Archduke Ferdinand and here are these," he said, handing him several papers, "make a neat memorandum in French out of all this, showing all the news we have had of the movements of the Austrian army, and then give it to his excellency."

The game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne.

Now he rode beside Ilyin under the birch trees, occasionally plucking leaves from a branch that met his hand, sometimes touching his horse's side with his foot, or, without turning round, handing a pipe he had finished to an hussar riding behind him, with as calm and careless an air as though he were merely out for a ride.

And handing back the odd bits he turned and went out.

In North Asia, handing out business cards with both hands in a respectful manner will also be noticed.

Was killed in action No. 1915 by a rifle grenade whilst handing over to the Royal Berkshire Regt at Vermelles.

The meeting started with the handing round of a sheet of paper on which people could state items to be added to the agenda.

Which is why some people are handing out leaflets at showings of the film telling people where to go to find out more.

The cat was sitting in the spa bath handing Ted the tiles.

You should ask yourself how secure is handing your details to a waiter in a restaurant.

Before you begin handing out money, though, be sure you know exactly how much the adoption will cost, and get a signed agreement.

You can plan favors around the theme, like handing out ladybug bookmarks at a ladybug shower.

This is the perfect time to begin handing him small baby toys that he can practice holding.

Instead of handing over $20, put that money in a greeting card and insert a little token for the receiver.

If you need a computer capable of handing heavy graphics requirements, choose one with a PCI Express x16 slot for the graphics card of your choosing.

Handing clients and employees a mug or t-shirt featuring your business logo is one thing, but giving a gift card is a promotional item that can have a real impact on how the client or employee views your business.

Visa prepaid cards are a great way to give gifts of money without handing over cash or writing a check.

In the same thread, it will also determine an estimate of how much money you will be handing over should you surrender most custodial rights of your children.

When you purchase a used book at a local bookstore or yard sale, you can pick it up, flip through the pages, check the binding and get a general idea of its condition before handing over any money.

You can always combat this potential problem by handing out worksheets at the end of the presentation.

When a friend is handing you a beer at a party or trying to convince you to skip class, it can be difficult to say no.

Instead of just handing over a fistful of money, place it in money holder-type card or in a neatly wrapped box.

Always think carefully before handing over large sums of money.

Handing out CD wedding favors with your musical selections is a thoughtful way to tell guests you appreciate their support and love on your wedding day.

Handing out wine bottles wedding favors is a perfect way to show your appreciation to your guests, even if you are not wine connoisseurs.

Handing out the wine favors can be problematic, as you do not want underage persons to receive them.

If you are truly concerned about handing out actual bottles of wine, you might be able to purchase gift certificates from local wineries that guests can redeem for their choice of wine.

Giving two or three smaller candy bars may be more cost effective than handing out larger ones that might just go to waste anyway.

Personalized wedding favors show guests that the couple put some thought into the favor they are handing out.

Handing out fan wedding programs can help guests keep insects away and cool on warm summer nights.

If you're not sure, check the company out online before handing over any of your hard earned cash.

Instead of a first come-first serve basis for handing out Xbox's, there is now a lottery system because it is anticipated over 100 people will line up.

Listen to what your fellow consumers have to tell you before signing on that dotted line and handing over your hard-earned cash.

Of course, most clubs that offer Country Western dances have tutorials and lessons before the dancing begins - usually covering a new country line dance, often handing out step sheets for people to take home with them and practice.

Why try handing out a few dozen paper invites when you're throwing a party that you want hundreds of people to attend?

You'll find other people handing off their work to you, expecting you to complete it.

In 1946, the law was changed handing this responsibility over to the U.S. Public Health Service.

Handing in beautifully written history homework on time at age eight does not mean that those same history facts will be remembered at age nine.

Separate from the sales aspect of your job, you'll also be responsible for handing tasks specific to processing mortgage applications.

The multi-speed setting allows for maximum flexibility when mixing with the highest speed capable of handing the densest bread dough and the lowest speed delicate enough to whip up a sensitive meringue.

Have blue garland and blue place settings.Create a fun game by handing out blue Mardi-Gras beads at the door.

Also make sure the company services the warranty in-house, instead of handing you off to a third party.

Use caution, however, in handing out personal information and making intimate online contacts.

As rings grow more valuable, simply slipping a ring off the ring finger and handing it over may not be enough to return it.

Coco Chanel died in 1971, handing her fashion empire over into the capable hands of design-prodigy Karl Lagerfield.

Handing him a handful of browns, oranges, yellows, and other autumn shades can set up a "creative constraint" for him that will yield some very nice artwork on the fridge.

Handing the spoon to the next one in line, repeat the process until either team completes the race.

An important distinction between Mobil and other hotel ratings, however, is that Mobil is very selective in handing out the coveted stars.

There is much more to job application forms than simply typing up some questions and handing the form to prospective employees.

Handing out business cards creates business opportunities.

Handing in this letter means you have left the company or plan to do so.

Handing out business cards means that your contacts have something to refer to afterward.

I was pretty much his gopher at first, getting him wrenches and handing him parts.

Likewise, handing your wife of thirty years and four children a package bearing the label "Frederick's of Hollywood" will either incite laughter or a swift slap.

Make these luxurious items last by handing with care -- you should find a care label on each pair, which will most likely direct you to hand wash them in cold water with a gentle cleanser.

If you can't think of why they're handing out free music, it's best to shy away.

Naturally beads are de rigueur at Mardi Gras, though you can develop your own system for handing them out at your birthday party.

If you're really organized, consider handing out small candies and treats for prizes, or print out award certificates to give to game participants.

Instead of handing out roses, however, Conley doles out diamond rings to the ladies who will be staying.

At tribal council, Erik stunned everyone by falling for the plan and handing over his immunity.

At weigh-in, she passed the 100 lbs lost mark, handing her the record as the woman to lose 100 lbs the fastest on the show.

When in doubt, always opt for a more natural treatment first before handing over a lot of money and trusting that a product is effective.

You can't be sued for telling 20 friends at a party that your apartment is moldy - but you can be sued for handing out 20 handbills on the street claiming the same thing.

He leaned down, handing her a canteen.

He's run it all summer, Martha said, handing Howie a glass.

He began helping her by handing her the clothes.