Example sentences of "were sent [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men who only went into a shop for ‘ baccy ’ , matches or a paper , were sent round to the local grocer 's and butcher 's shops to buy up everything that was n't nailed down . |
| 2 | The unfortunates were sent over to the other building from which they would ring clients who owed money , and would demand of them immediate payment . |
| 3 | This frank proposal for unparliamentary taxation was accepted by the King , and orders were sent out to the appointed commissioners in January . |
| 4 | The first set in each pair were sent out to the participating schools in October and November 1985 , and the second parallel set in February 1986 . |
| 5 | Ho and Pottz were sent out for a sudden-death surf-off . |
| 6 | On 1st April 1989 , annual domestic rate bills were sent out for the last time . |
| 7 | The best IBMers were sent out in the seventies on secondments , then seen to come back into promotions . |
| 8 | Steaua 's Ionel Fulga and Antwerp 's Rudy Taeymans were sent off in the second half , Fulga for dangerous play and Taeymans for a second bookable offence . |
| 9 | In reply to Trevelyan 's comments about this land being sufficient for the new building , Hall made the astonishing remark that this could only be determined after the plans were sent in by the competing architects . |