"But to simply hand it down to someone as a project like this is a crime."

Obviously somebody who thought they could not simply hand it to him.

The friend was simply handed a form with questions like "Boy or girl?"

We must not simply hand the country over to another general who comes from the 20 percent Sunni minority.

I'd simply hand them the phone so that they could copy down the directions for themselves.

He didn't say anything; simply handed me one of the photographs from the envelope.

It was for me, and my mother simply handed the cordless phone out the door.

Thousands more were simply handed a badge and blue shirt on their first day.

He had assumed that Consanto would simply hand him over to the police.

Simply handing the man over to the Tatmadaw wouldn't work.