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The phrase "and ordered to hand" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey a command or directive, but it lacks clarity and completeness.
Example: "The officer was instructed to take the evidence and ordered to hand it over to the detective."
Alternatives: "and instructed to deliver" or "and directed to pass".
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"When they cross the border, they are housed somewhere in Serbia and ordered to hand over their passports.
Hounam also revealed how the programme's producer, Chris Mitchell, had later been stopped at Tel Aviv airport and ordered to hand over the tapes of the interview.
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French fixed-line and mobile telephone operators had been ordered to hand over the phone records of all suspected leakers in the administration.
During one of Saddam's hallmark purges in 1979, several ministers were handed weapons and ordered to kill colleagues whom Saddam had just declared to be "traitors".
These deaths happened when militias were handed weapons and ordered to terrorize unarmed villages, displacing much of the population.
Architects have long fantasized about being approached with such deference by real-estate developers; usually, they are treated like hired hands and ordered to cut the frills.
Rather, it has ignored the court's questions and its orders to hand him over.
Honours and medals from Queens and Kings may be an alien concept in Silicon Valley, but they are a delightfully steam-punk tradition, still continued in a Britain which long ago said goodbye to its Empire, yet still has Knights and 'Commander' orders to hand out.
Two Canadian telecommunications giants have been fighting the government in court, pushing back against what they call "overbroad and unreasonable" orders to hand over information on scores of their customers.
Mr. Monroe, who the police said is over 6-foot-1 with a medium to stocky frame, then overpowered the slender, 5-foot-6 Mr. Uneno, choked him and ordered him to hand over money and jewelry, Mr. Uneno and the police said.
More than once, the story has circulated that Mr. Guzmán's armed men have stormed into restaurants and ordered customers to hand over their cellphones and continue eating as if nothing were awry.
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