Example sentences of "send i [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's what I 've wanted to do for a long time , so long that I ca n't remember a time when the name Tony Radcliffe did n't send me into a violent rage ! ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The implied judgement on me , Vicky 's notional partner , should have been enough to send me into a screaming spiral of paranoid depression . |
| 4 | They deliberately sent me on a wild goose chase . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He sent me to a Jesuit boarding school . |
| 7 | Undismayed , she sent me to a first-class crammer for two terms , and Brian to another preparatory school . |
| 8 | What sent me into a fear-filled frenzy was the news — hidden somewhere between a report on the seasonal suicide rate and an article on bogus Santas — that I had bought a ride-on fire engine for my baby son that had a dangerous fault and should be returned to the manufacturers immediately . |
| 9 | ‘ You should 've sent me to a decent school , ’ said Camille . |