give over

Example Sentences

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“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

His plan — which Starr notes “might have been a cover for a London company anxious to acquire land” — was for Mexico to give over as much as 20,000 square miles of land in Mexican California to settle about 15,000 Irish Catholic families.

From Los Angeles Times