Example sentences of "[verb] sent [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Petre has sent thee a present of Philip Miller 's second part of his Dictionary in return for the specimens sent him . |
| 2 | Visnews has sent me a 16-page fax on what they have ; please phone tomorrow to discuss . |
| 3 | He has sent me a copy of Tax Bulletin No 1 , which covers the Revenue 's official line for treating such expenditure . |
| 4 | ‘ David , your Headmaster has sent me a letter , ’ said David 's father . |
| 5 | A mole in The Children 's Society has sent me a copy of a letter the society received from organisers of the European Social Services Conference to be held in Kent in July . |
| 6 | ‘ Karl has sent me a good luck card . |
| 7 | Mr Tersteeg , his ex-employer at The Hague , has sent him a box of paints and a sketchbook . |
| 8 | And look , Mother has sent you a present ! ’ |
| 9 | Elaine Cooper has sent us a double dose of news this month |
| 10 | Now that the ski season is well underway , Elaine Cooper has sent us a bumper news bulletin from the Scottish slopes |
| 11 | Appropriately , he has sent us a letter about a piece he saw in last Thursday 's Diary . |
| 12 | Ron has sent us a copy then |
| 13 | ‘ But I 'd sent you a cheque to cover my share of the quarter . ’ |
| 14 | If I 'd thought of it I 'd have sent her a message : You wo n't be welcome . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Could n't they just have sent us a photograph ? ’ |
| 16 | I 've sent them a big consignment of wine , I 'm in that as well as the grocery , and I 'd love to know how it 's selling . " |
| 17 | I add them up yesterday and said what 's it , what do I do , I 've not come to , now they 've sent me a temporary one . |
| 18 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
| 19 | I 've sent you a perfectly useless present — to wit : a fountain pen — as a small token to mark the Big Day . |
| 20 | I 've sent you a young man who loves horses as you do , and who can continue your work with them . |
| 21 | Testing role plays I 've sent you a handout on that exercises and there 's a handout on that . |
| 22 | Well they 've sent you a letter from hospital . |
| 23 | ‘ They had sent me a tape of four songs ; one was called Down And Out and Squonk was another . |
| 24 | Paul Fabian , the lone British diplomat who gloried in the title of Her Britannic Majesty 's High Commissioner in Tonga and Consul for the United States Island Possessions in the South Pacific , had sent me a telex advising me that yes , Tafahi was the first place in the world to receive the day 's new time and that , moreover , he had only very recently been there . |
| 25 | One lady had sent me a poem called ‘ Wait for Me ’ by a Russian poet , Konstantin Simonov . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , the Consul-General at Florence , Mr Wakefield-Harrey , whom I had first met in Tripoli , stayed with in Florence and met once more in Rome for the Chamberlain-Mussolini talks , had sent me a long Miltonic poem ( for these slightly underemployed officials in remote places often took to authorship as an alternative to the bottle ) about which he begged me to seek Eliot 's opinion . |
| 27 | I got my membership booklet today ( at first I though they had sent me a season ticket by mistake ) . |
| 28 | According to Noel Stock 's Life , Pound first met Binyon in the second week of February 1909 , and early in March he found ‘ intensely interesting ’ a lecture by Binyon on European and Oriental art , for which the lecturer had sent him a ticket . |
| 29 | Someone had sent him a jacket almost exactly like the ones the famous bomber pilots all wore during the war . |
| 30 | Hawk had sent him a parcel containing a bisected apple : red outside , white inside . |