Example sentences of "had been send [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically , it had been Ivy , he 'd learned , who had been sent to collect the letter from Ruggiero which the gang had left in the rubbish skip . |
| 2 | In the breathless explanations that followed , apparently the WAAFs had been sent to relieve the airmen of manning the bombing quadrants but no action had been taken about withdrawing the RAF . |
| 3 | This was in the foothills of the Mournes , whence he had been sent to take a photograph of bees and beekeeping . |
| 4 | A letter had been sent to remind the authority . |
| 5 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 6 | The child had been sent to fetch the doctor for a sick neighbour , and was on her way home again . |
| 7 | British readers are likely to be particularly interested in the Pearl Harbor chapter , which backs up the story of Dusan Popov , a wartime double agent , that he had been sent to warn the Americans that the Japanese were planning to attack the naval base . |
| 8 | Some British officers had been sent to help the Madeirans with their resistance , but they had arrived only a few days before the Portuguese troops landed and had not had time to organize . |
| 9 | But the Russian air force press centre in Moscow said Maj Shipko 's plane and another SU-27 had been sent to prevent an attack on a paratroop base near the rebel capital of Gudauta , about 20 miles north of the frontline . |
| 10 | On Sept. 30 , 120 more monitors had been sent to cover the situation on the Hungarian border and in Bosnia-Hercegovina , bringing their total to 200 . |