Example sentences of "send [pers pn] to [art] [adj] school " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been talk of sending me to a special school , but my family were not ready to accept such an open acknowledgment of my disability , and the excuse was again made about academic standards . |
| 2 | There was n't much he could do about Preston except shout abuse across the garden fence at his nan while she was putting the washing out , but he managed to persuade her it would be a mistake sending him to a Catholic school . |
| 3 | His parents were not affluent but they pumped what money they had into his education , sending him to a private school , Edinburgh 's Merchiston . |
| 4 | The parents of 26 children refused to send them to the designated school and instead made arrangements for tuition to be given to them by , inter alios , a volunteer retired teacher , in rooms above a public house . |
| 5 | In the fullness of time , we will afford , perhaps , to send you to a finishing school , or a conservatory to study music . |
| 6 | It had been their intention to send her to a finishing school in France or Germany , but she had begged so hard to be allowed to stay where she was , with Breeze and Gay . |
| 7 | But despite her appalling injuries , her parents have fought to send her to an ordinary school . |
| 8 | ‘ One would have shuddered to send him to a public school , ’ said the lady , who had in fact sat long and agonized in calculation of the cost of doing so . |
| 9 | A Cornish miner later recalled of his late-eighteenth-century childhood : When I was eight years old my parents sent me to a raiding school kept by a poor owld man called Stephen Martin . |
| 10 | So the sent me to the er eye infirmary and of course the eye infirmary sent me to the blind school . |
| 11 | ‘ You should 've sent me to a decent school , ’ said Camille . |