Example sentences of "been sent [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the latter films were made by Walter Booth for Charles Urban , an American who had been sent to Britain in order to look after Edison 's interests , then set up on his own as a distributor and exporter of French and American films . |
| 2 | Tommy Weir , 66 , of Walker Street , in Fauldhouse , West Lothian , died last Thursday of a heart attack after waiting more than 50 minutes for an ambulance which had been sent to Falkirk by mistake . |
| 3 | There he read out a cablegram that had been sent to MCC in London . |
| 4 | The 50 unarmed UN military observers who had been sent to Mogadishu in July remained in the country , although on Aug. 6 they were reported still to be unable to leave their compound due problems of transport . |
| 5 | Walter Plowden , before Theodore 's rise to power , had been sent to Abyssinia as Consul to negotiate a commercial treaty with the most powerful of the several Rases . |
| 6 | He had been sent to Belpan by Colonel Smith as bait for gun-runners . |
| 7 | No such worries crossed the mind of the Prussian Major who had been sent to Brussels with news of the French advance and details of the Prussian response . |
| 8 | Once , a message had been sent to Ford in Hollywood , entreating aid for the Navahos after a hard winter , and the director had found a Western script to make in Monument Valley simply to bring some money to the tribe . |
| 9 | A message , therefore , of patient good sense had been sent by Thorfinn to Earl Siward , and a request that Bishop Malduin 's wife and household should be sent to join the Bishop at Kinrimund , where the King would be pleased to defray their expenses pending an agreement on the sponsorship of the Lothian churches . |