To-hand Sentence Examples

She started to hand him what looked like an intricate carving in the side of an orange.

Not hesitating to hand over the compass, she appeared torn at taking the final step of betrayal.

Oh, he'll have a fit or two and try to hand down an edict.

He'd all but rejected her deal to sleep with him and wasn't about to hand her equipment over to her.

Dean managed to hand her his business card but she seemed to dismiss it, with eyes only for the charming Fred O'Connor.

The powers and rights of existing colonies to remain intact, except as regards such powers as it may be necessary to hand over to the Federal government.

Up till 1908 it had been generally assumed that the constitution required the treasurer of the Commonwealth to hand over to the states month by month whatever surplus funds remained in his hands.

Deputies Philip and was able to hand over the country to his son Philip Joanna.

A strong opposition was quickly aroused, and when Theophano and Adelaide, widow of the emperor Otto the Great, appeared in Germany, Henry was compelled to hand over the young king to his mother.

The name Masorah (Massorah) is usually derived from masar, to hand on, and explained as "tradition."

Those under the latter body are of recent growth, the policy of the last twenty years of the 19th century having been to hand over the budget allowances for primary instruction to the Holy Synod, which opened parish schools under the local priests.

He then gave a sealed paper to Ayaz, begging him to hand it to the sultan in a leisure moment after 20 days had elapsed, and set off on his travels with no better equipment than his staff and a dervish's cloak.

The commander of the ever-victorious army of Italy had recently been attacked by one of the moderates in the councils for proposing to hand over Venice to Austria.

On the death of Gian Galeazzo Visconti in 1402, his large possessions broke up, His neighbours and his generals seized what was nearest to hand.

Even when the slave had killed his master, the relatives of the house could not themselves inflict punishment; they were obliged to hand him over to the magistrate to be dealt with by legal process.

Already in the time of Nero the magistrates had been ordered to receive the slave's complaint of ill-treatment; and the lex Petronia, belonging to the same or an earlier period, forbade masters to hand over their slaves to combats with wild beasts.

When the sultan discovered that Martinuzzi, who was all-powerful in Transylvania, had actually arranged to hand over the country to Ferdinand, he threw the Austrian ambassador into prison, and in September 1551 sent an army, 80,000 strong, under Mahommed Sokolli over the Danube.

The exploration of parts of the New World next brought to hand descriptions and specimens of many novel forms of animal life, and in the latter part of the 16th century and the Medical beginning of the 17th that careful study by " special- anatomists" of the structure a.nd life-history of particular groups of animals was commenced, which, directed micro- at first to common and familiar kinds, was gradually scopists.

The Greek gods being the powers of nature personified, pantheism lay nearer to hand than monotheism.

Moreover, all securities underwent such sharp depreciation that, on the one hand, the government hesitated to hand over the bonds representing the purchase-price of the railways, lest such an addition to the volume of stocks should cause further depreciation, and, on the other, the former owners of the nationalized lines found the character of their bargain greatly changed.

If, then, an Egyptian inscription of the XIXth dynasty had come to hand in which the names of Joseph and Moses, and the deeds of the Israelites as a subject people who finally escaped from bondage by crossing the Red Sea, were recorded in hieroglyphic characters, such a monument would have been hailed with enthusiastic delight by every champion of the Pentateuch, and a wave of supreme satisfaction would have passed over all Christendom.

In 1805, by the peace of Pressburg, Napoleon forced Austria to hand over Tirol to his ally, Bavaria, which held it till 1814.

Pius, wishing to counteract the effect of this policy, sent Farini to Charles Albert, king of Sardinia, to hand over the command of the papal contingent to him.

An instrument for superintending this coordination in the social and economic aspects was ready to hand in the Economic Council of the German Reich, set up by the new Republican constitution of 1919.

But if the intelligence which the duke rightly relied on had come to hand on the r 5th, it cannot be doubted that he would have effected a more expeditious concentration on his inner flank.

At the end of five years the Board was to hand over its duties to the government.

He took part in the battle of Lepanto, but after the loss of Cyprus he was forced to make peace with the Turks and to hand them back his conquests.

Two thousand men would suffice, he said, and the Cossacks supplied excellent military material ready to hand.

In the following year the old king found it needful to hand over the command of his armies to the Tartan (commander-in-chief), and six years later Nineveh and other cities revolted against him under his rebel son Assur-danin-pal.

Shadwell suggests that the real meaning is "fig-discoverer," not "fig-informer," referring to the blackmailer who discovers the "figs" (that is, the money) of the rich man and forces him to hand it over by the threat of bringing a criminal accusation against him.

Daimbert, the first patriarch of Jerusalem, was convinced that the Roman Church alone could be sovereign of the new state, and attempted to compel Godfrey of Bouillon to hand over to him by a solemn agreement the town and citadel of Jerusalem, and also Jaffa.

Finding that their messengers did not return, the Hyperboreans adopted the plan of wrapping the offerings in wheat-straw and requested their neighbours to hand them on to the next nation, and so on, till they finally reached Delos.

Here they received without shrinking a volley, which was certain to destroy a number of them, and then rushing forward in close order, fought their enemies hand to hand.

In illustration of the very different estimates that have been made, however, may be mentioned that of De Bary in 1872 of 150,000 species, and that of Cooke in 1895 of 40,000, and Massee in 1899 of over 50,000 species, the fact being that no sufficient data are as yet to hand for any accurate census.

Once more the ministry conceded all the demands of the insurgents, and even went so far as to hand over the public treasury and the responsibility of keeping order to a newly constituted Committee of Public Safety.

In that case he would have been put to shame, even in the eyes of many of his own followers, by the first poem that came to hand.

The pasha was ordered either to hand over the executioners to vengeance or to resign his place; as he refused to do the forfner he was compelled to do the latter, and presently a rescript came from Constantinople, approving the conduct of the army and appointing one KhalIl Pasha as Musas successor.

A certain amount of blood is of course indispensable for hounds, but it should never be forgotten that a fox cub of seven or eight months old, though tolerably cunning, is not so very strong; the huntsman should not therefore, be over-eager in bringing to hand every cub he can find.

Their power steadily grew until Radi (934-941) was constrained to hand over most of the royal functions to Mahommed b.

A slight insurrection was easily suppressed, and a plot formed by some nobles to hand him over to the English king, Henry VII., came to nothing.

In the 10th century it became the policy of the German emperors to hand over to the bishops full jurisdictional and administrative powers within their cities.

Some became Roman Catholics, and those who retained their "Abrahamite" views were not able to hand them on to the next generation.

In September 1900 a fresh outburst of hostile feeling against Chile was created in Argentina by a note addressed by the Chilean government to Bolivia, intimating that Chile was no longer inclined to hand over the port of Arica or any other port on the Pacific, but considered the time ripe for a final settlement of the questions connected with the Chilean occupation of Bolivian territory, which had now been outstanding for sixteen years.

On the r 5th of August he was directed to hand over £40 given him for the purpose, to a successor, the treaty of Bretigny having been made meanwhile and confirmed at Calais with Wykeham as one of the witnesses on the 24th of October.

The evidence to hand shows that on heights and in open country, especially in the north, there may be few or even no Schizomycetes detected in the air, and even in towns their distribution varies greatly; sometimes they appear to exist in minute clouds, as it were, with interspaces devoid of any, but in laboratories and closed spaces where their cultivation has been promoted Lhe air may be considerably laden with them Of course the distribution of bodies so light and small is easily influenced by movements, rain, wind, changes of temperature, &c. As parasites, certain Schizomycetes inhabit and prey upon the organs of man and animals in varying degrees, and the conditions for their growth and distribution are then very complex.

Nevertheless, in 1492, after the conspiracy of Jean de Rohan, who had endeavoured to hand over the duchy to the king of England, Charles VIII.

Rumours of plots came to hand.

London gained its paramount importance from its favourable geographical position in respect of the rest of England on the one hand and the Continent on the other, and the populous district of the " home counties " owes its existence to that importance; whereas other populous districts have generally grown up at the point where some source of natural wealth, as coal or iron, lay to hand.

These family connexions with the Hebridean Scots and with the O'Neills made the lord deputy, Sir John Perrot, afraid of a powerful combination against the English government, and induced him to establish garrisons in Tyrconnel and to demand hostages from Hugh MacManus O'Donnell, which the latter refused to hand over.

Included are various charges on foreign bonds to bearer, to compensate for the advantage they have in escaping the transfer duty on deeds, through their passing on sale or mortgage from hand to hand.

Calm was thus restored, but Aurelian and his colleagues were not inclined to hand over their portfolios to Sturdza and his partisans.

When he had joined a Baptist society at Bedford, and was for the first time admitted to partake of the eucharist, it was with difficulty that he could refrain from imprecating destruction on his brethren while the cup was passing from hand to hand.

In this short time, in addition to the chronic troubles with the Basutoswhich led the Cape to hand them over to the imperial authorities - there occurred a series of native disturbances which were followed by the Boer War of 1881, and the Bechuanaland disturbances of 1884.

Julius, who was anxious to be on good terms with Charles on account of the council of Trent which was then sitting, ordered Farnese to hand Parma over to the papal authorities once more, and on his refusal hurled censures and admonitions at his head, and deprived him of his Roman fiefs, while Charles did the same with regard to those in Lombardy.

After a day of desperate hand to hand fightingfor the vessels grappled and the whole matter was settled by boardingthe French fleet was annihilated.

It was a difficult problem for Elizabeth to solve; to let Mary go to France was presenting a good deal more than a pawn to her enemies; to restore her by force to her Scottish throne might have been heroic, but it certainly was not politics; to hand her over to her Scottish foes was too mean even for Elizabeth; and to keep her in England was to nurse a spark in a powder-magazine.

He fled to Rhodes, where he committed suicide, while the Rhodians were debating whether to hand him over to Sulla.

Such were the constituencies to whom it was proposed to hand Ireland over.

Besides transferring private bill legislation to Dublin on the Scottish plan, to which no one in Ireland objected, it was proposed to hand over the internal expenditure of Ireland to a financial council consisting half of nominated and half of elected members, and to give an Irish assembly the initiative in public Irish bills.

Bonaparte had now to rid himself of Sieys and thoserepublicans who had no desire to hand over the republic to one man, particularly of Moreau and Massna, his military rivals.

In fact, the collection thus blended was passed from hand to hand without meeting with any opposition.

From that date to the peace of Nijmwegen, 1678, which assigned it to France, it frequently passed from hand to hand by capture or treaty.

This demand broke the patience of the prime minister, and on the 30th of July Seor de Ojeda, Spanish ambassador at the Vatican, was instructed to hand in his papers.

As the only means of preserving authority at Khartum (and thus securing the peaceful withdrawal of the garrison) Gordon repeatedly telegraphed to Cairo asking that Zobeir Pasha might be sent to him, his intention being to hand over to Zobeir the government of the country.

On the 2nd of January 1906 a treaty was made whereby the sultan of Brunei agreed to hand over the general administration of his state to a British resident.

Every year, the CIOB throws a bash to hand out its Building Manager of the Year award.

Ann proposes an amnesty to allow the women to hand in any more booze then to hold a full cell search 24 hours later.

The pool, surrounded by flowering bougainvillea, offers a relaxing spot to soak up the sun and has a bar close to hand.

You will need to hand the slide carousel to the technical team in the break preceding your talk.

Is ideal filled with real delphinium petal confetti (item 143 - as shown) or for your bridesmaids to hand out favors.

For extra color use half green and half yellow courgettes and for convenience, use whichever pasta comes to hand!

The landing-master's crew were occupied in assisting the millwrights in laying the railways to hand.

For some, detailed art work is near impossible to hand paint, the only way would be using decals.

Now, have you the slightest doubt that Jarrett told you it had been agreed to hand over the child for £ 5?

The impotent Sulayman is forced to hand out provincial governorships to the Berber chiefs.

All the children were entertained by a magician, and Father Christmas made a surprise guest appearance to hand out presents.

These are the times one has to hunt around for a mild medicament - and yet one could so easily have it to hand!

Make sure that you always have the potty to hand.

All persons making presentments are requested to hand written copies to the Clerk.

His martial arts prowess is enhanced by the suit, making him a deadly opponent in hand to hand combat.

By lunchtime we had masses of paper to hand and were all ravenous.

One 28-acre crop of hay had to be chopped and left to rot because there was too much to hand rogue.

Kay forces Tracey to hand over some of the money to her, and enlists Linda as her bookie's runner.

You will almost always find someone near to hand who has a smattering of French or English.

Most people tell you to hand wash the fleece in the bath with mild soap or soda crystals.

Feminist theologians will also want to question Lot's apparent willingness to hand his daughters over to a mad crowd to face certain death.

It is useful to have some dry tinder in the form of a tinder ball to hand.

It also says the military government in Yangon refuses to hand over known drugs warlords and tolerates money laundering.

The huge extent of the latzfondi, or large estates, often results in their being left in the hands of speculators, who exploit both workmen and farmers with such usury that the latter are often compelled, at the end of a scanty year, to hand over their crops to the usurers before harvest.

But after the Armistice the unsatisfactory consequences of the peace negotiations, the heavy burden of suffering and loss caused by the war, and, above all, the intolerable internal policy of the Nitti Cabinet, which seemed prepared to hand the country over to the Bolshevist Socialists, brought about the return of Giolitti to the sphere of practical politics once more.

In addition, there are two or three obervations to hand which shew that piscine, amphibian and mammalian Trypanosomes may also become attached.

In spite of all their bravery, they succumbed to the Greek phalanx, when once the generalship of a Miltiades or a Pausanias had brought matters to a hand to hand conflict; and it was with justice that the GrecksAeschylus, for instance viewed their battles against the Persian as a contest between spear and bow.

When I learned that there was a gift for each child, I was delighted, and the kind people who had prepared the tree permitted me to hand the presents to the children.

It was not difficult, however, to make her understand that there was a present for each child, and to her great delight she was permitted to hand the gifts to the children.

The large table covered with books and plans, the tall glass-fronted bookcases with keys in the locks, the high desk for writing while standing up, on which lay an open exercise book, and the lathe with tools laid ready to hand and shavings scattered around--all indicated continuous, varied, and orderly activity.

And believe me on my honour that to me personally it would be a pleasure to hand over the supreme command of the army into the hands of a better informed and more skillful general--of whom Austria has so many--and to lay down all this heavy responsibility.

Every day, letters of inquiry and notices from the court arrived, and on the first of May, Denisov was ordered to hand the squadron over to the next in seniority and appear before the staff of his division to explain his violence at the commissariat office.

If only I were to hand the letter direct to him and tell him all... could they really arrest me for my civilian clothes?

He read, and read everything that came to hand.

He went to Tver to see Joseph Alexeevich's widow, who had long since promised to hand over to him some papers of her deceased husband's.

If the thought that things looked bad chanced to enter anyone's head, he tried to be as cheerful as befits a good soldier and not to think of the general trend of affairs, but only of the task nearest to hand.

Dessalles wrote this letter to the Governor for Princess Mary, she signed it, and it was given to Alpatych with instructions to hand it to the Governor and to come back as quickly as possible if there was danger.

I took down the name and rank of their commanding officer, to hand in a complaint about it.

Failure to hand over keys This is an offense punishable by 2 years in prison.

Kay forces Tracey to hand over some of the money to her, and enlists Linda as her bookie 's runner.

Other shippers had to hand write consignment notes prior to collection.

A waiter tried to smother the flames with what he found to hand - a coat.

You will be expected to hand in work each week, doing the starred questions.

Feminist theologians will also want to question Lot 's apparent willingness to hand his daughters over to a mad crowd to face certain death.

Where great art is waiting to be born it can usually make use of whatever ulterior agenda comes to hand.

People aren't just going to hand over big bucks because you've asked them for it, especially if you're not a skilled salesperson.

You could give them a basket full of disposable cameras to hand out to visitors each time they come over.

When hosting a baby shower plan ahead to provide a comfortable chair for the mother-to-be to sit in, assign a person to hand her the gifts, and another to write a list tracking who gives what gift.

Make copies of the report and be prepared to hand it out to realtors you meet.

Calculate how much you can afford in mortgage payments and be prepared to hand over a hefty down payment on the house you like.

In many of the larger stores, you may find that the animals do not receive as much human interaction, and as such, will be more difficult to hand tame when you take them home.

However, that doesn't mean you have to hand your decision over to happenstance.

Gold coins are great to purchase as an investment or to hand down to your kids or even to just collect.

Visits-A simple visit to the children's ward with a bouquet of balloons to hand out to the children can bring a smile to a child's face.

If you do need to hand it to a person, watch the card carefully to avoid additional swipes of the card.

Others provide an entire wall mural -- wall sticker murals are relatively inexpensive if you consider the cost of hiring an artist to hand paint a scene.

You'll be using this sink to hand wash clothes, fill and empty buckets, and do other household chores.

Trace around a purchased frame to hand cut your own frame with a utility knife.

Are you visiting companies in your area to hand out your resume?

Don't forget to type up a professional-looking project synopsis and report to hand out as well.

There are many different types of modeling, from advertisement models, to hand and foot models.

Instead, we decided to hand our small video camera to a couple of our friends (who were not in the wedding) and ask them to shoot some video so we could have something to commemorate our special day.

Ask a bartender to hand out the favors as guests enter the reception area and check names off a list of those over 21 who can receive the bottles.

Although it is fun to hand wedding party gifts out to everyone in a big group, you might also hand them out to people individually, as you see them.

Handmade pieces-For a handmade touch, check out Ten Thousand Villages, where you can find everything from soap dishes to hand woven hampers, perfect for a tropical theme.

Police and paramedics were called to the home of Britney Spears when she refused to hand over her youngest son, Jayden James, to Kevin Federline's bodyguards.

Having to hand wash delicate clothing will get old fast, so when buying, take a quick peek at the tag and see if the toddler clothes are easy to throw into a washer and dryer.

Because jeans are often very durable, you may be able to hand down a favorite jacket to younger siblings.

Students can take quizzes online through Blackboard or use the tool to hand in electronic assignments.

You can use the remote to get the dog's attention, and then go back to hand signals.

Products might range from seeds to hand tools and pesticides to hedge trimmers.

These are also likely to be light weight so they do not add too much weight to hand luggage.

These useful items have a number of uses and are a useful item to have to hand.

This type of organizer is also a great way to be able to see at a glance what type of earrings you have and ensure that the perfect pair of earrings is always to hand.

The best way to keep pests from your vegetables is to hand pick them off.

The best way to clean pantyhose is to hand launder them.

Many times, these groups distribute pamphlets to the administrators of these locations to hand out upon request.

Some doctors like to hand them directly to their in-office opticians so that they may help you from there.

FreshLook Contacts will also email you a free trial certificate to hand in at your appointment.

When a customer enters your bakery, your first task is to hand them a menu.

Rannek the Fighter is human and specializes in melee weapons, sword and hand to hand combat.

I have to hand it to the Marvel franchise.

I do have to hand it to the people at GameAccess.ca.

Use weapons and hand to hand combat to stop the Terminator machines and others.

Print up some business cards with English on one side and Arabic on the other; prepare to hand them out at every opportunity.

You may need to hand sew a few additional pieces on to give her the look you want.

Finally, Gund is a licensed distributor of Sesame Street products - from beanbags to hand puppets, their collection reaches far beyond plush animals, though they do have those, too.

At the very least, you'll want to save them for special occasions so that you only have to take the time to hand wash or dry clean the garment a few times per year.

The Dirt Devil Spot Scrubber does not have an electric pump for spraying; instead, a manual pump requires the individual using the product to hand pump this sprayer with their thumb.

Try to hand wash the plastic jar if possible.

It is recommended that the blender be cleaned after each use and to hand wash the shaft and attachments.

However, many people prefer to hand select the individual pieces to match the board.

Keep a notepad and pen to hand and write down any fragrances that stand out during the course of a day.

Using a Christmas plastic gift bag to hand out presents is easy, economical, and can be re-used with relative ease.

If you choose to hand out goodies to the winners, be sure to have enough goodies for everyone, in case all the guesses are correct.

Decorate a gingerbread house together in your pajamas or make homemade Christmas gifts to hand out to neighbors.

Most vampire costumes for pooches are machine washable, though there are a few that are made from felt or crushed velvet, which require you to hand wash them or have them dry cleaned.

This website is another popular one and has some you can print to hand to your loved one.

Mars, Aries' planetary ruler, governs war, sex, sexual energy, hand to hand combat and even athletes.

Make sure you have a way to hand off the relay to the next person.

In addition to hand tools, the company stocks air and power tools, engines, generators, garage/shop tools, automotive/motorcycle tools, welding supplies, and more.

If temporary tattoos are your thing but you don't feel like much of an artist, stencils can give you the look you want without having to hand over the project to someone else.

Pocket watches can bring many years of enjoyment and be a wonderful item to hand down from father to son through the generations.

Consider several companies before making your decision to ensure you have the best product to hand to potential employers.

At this rate, you won't make it to the beach until next summer.A much better plan is to hand out specific chore lists to each child.

For very small children, simply allowing them to hand you items and watch you as you work may suffice.

To get the most out of them, be sure to hand wash them and let them air dry.

If you don't have time to hand wash your bras and the tags say that they're machine washable, you can use a mesh lingerie bag on the gentle cycle to extend the life of the bra (though maybe not as much as handwashing would).

While you don't always have to slave over a tub or sink to hand wash every piece of lingerie you own, you do want to be a little gentler with things like bras.

You can use mild soap and warm water, but you'll need to hand wash.

Lingerie bags are a wonderful alternative for people who do not have time to hand wash every piece of lingerie they own.

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.

By the age of 11, Swift had taken it upon herself to record a demo tape of herself singing along to her favorite songs, and convinced her parents to take her to Nashville's famous Music Row to hand out the tape to record labels.

Plan to hand out candy hearts or mini heart-shaped balloons at a Valentine's Day party.

Additionally, the boss may choose to hand out bonuses or employee gifts at this time.

Once party time rolls around, appoint a "gift patroller" or Santa Claus to hand gifts out to the appropriate people.

Consider renting a Santa suit and have someone dress up to hand out presents, or perhaps set up a photo booth where guests can have their photo taken with summer Claus.

A fun party favor idea that ties in with this type of invitation is to hand out real sleeping eye masks before the kids go to sleep.

You can also make some printed announcements to hand out to close friends and co-workers.

They had originally hired Chanel as a model, but the company then decided to hand over the designing reigns to her.

Of course, she knew Alex well enough now to know he didn't like people to hand out information about him.

I've got to hand it to you Len; I had it figured completely different.

Did I trust this man I'd never met, enough to hand over all our identities?