give over

Example Sentences

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“You’ve already fallen out of favor with him,” Oswald continued, “but give over the child and we can make things right. He will be forgiving of your carelessness if he has the gold. He’d rather have the gold than a child.”

From Literature

“He wants me to give over everything I have. He says he knows a man who just got out of prison who can help win his freedom. But can we trust him? I’ve never seen this man! Yet I am to give him everything?”

From Literature

It said that Mr. Maroney would send a friend of his, disguised as a book peddler, to call on the sister’s house this evening, and that Mrs. Maroney was to give over everything to him.

From Literature

There’s so much trauma and, “But what if I did just give over to something.”

From Los Angeles Times

So there’s all of these reasons he can’t give over to anything.

From Los Angeles Times