Example sentences of "[prep] send [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 3 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 4 | The duke 's London residence was Essex House , the property of his brother-in-law , Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v. ] , another of Rose 's employers , who encouraged him to the extent of sending him to France for the first time , probably early in the 1640s . |
| 5 | Indeed , it even handed over several copies of its official stamp to Agrokomerc , so that the notes could be endorsed without the bother of sending them to the bank . |
| 6 | Once you have seen which publishers might be interested in your novel , you begin the long process of sending it to one after another . |
| 7 | Dear Grandfather , I am very much indebted to you for sending me to school , and especially to my present Teachers , who have greatly contributed to my improvement , but to you is due all the knowledge I possess . |
| 8 | Whatever their differences , could Huy hold himself responsible for sending him to such an end ? |
| 9 | He had thought about sending her to the oculist and he was much nicer to Gran . |
| 10 | Erm , yeah , sh I know you 'll be thinking about sending her to prison today but if you could think of anything else that erm , I do n't know , a suspended sentence or something like that , then obviously she 'd , she 'd be really grateful for that , would n't you , Mrs , yeah erm , er , Mrs White is there anything else you want me to say ? |
| 11 | But days and weeks passed , and Mrs Reed still said nothing about sending me to school . |
| 12 | But he did say that er it 'll take three weeks before he can get back to me about sending me to the Law |
| 13 | In Kuwait , the resistance , we are not trying to kill them , we are trying to destroy their tanks , to destroy their erm bases , to take their weapons , and to bring them to our sides for to send them to Saudi . |
| 14 | He had also torn off the copyright mark from the greeting card before sending it to the Italian artisans who made the sculptures . |
| 15 | An alternative , where the PC is the source , is to use one of the proprietary conversion routines to change the file into either Word or WordPerfect format before sending it to the Macintosh . |
| 16 | Format and print is an excellent utility for adding margins , headers and page numbers to a standard text file before sending it to the printer . |
| 17 | In that case have it signed before sending it to the seller 's conveyancer , otherwise you 'll be required to give your undertaking to have it executed after completion , and to supply a copy of the execution to the seller 's conveyancer . |
| 18 | Obviously , if your document uses Monotype 's Times New Roman then there 's no earthly point in sending it to a bureau that has n't got the face . |
| 19 | So you can understand what a sacrifice it is your father is making in sending you to this school . |
| 20 | commitment to sending them to college , so we lose one day a week for a start . |
| 21 | The first agency I went to sent me to a photographer to have some pictures taken for my portfolio . |
| 22 | If anyone collects old aquarium stuff and they would like to contact me , I 'm willing to sent it to them for the cost of the postage , as it is far too small for any of my set-ups . |
| 23 | We still do not have a proper address for Nanking , but I 'll try to sent it to you soon , as I understand a comrade from Nanking is coming to see us here to make arrangements for our visit there . |
| 24 | Therefore , as soon as Isabelle was old enough , it was decided to exploit her aptitude for art by sending her to Paris — out of harm 's way . ’ |
| 25 | He tried to toughen Charles up as a child by sending him to Gordonstoun public school in Scotland , where the prince became a target for bullies . |
| 26 | I detest Alvaro Delgado-Gal , who advocates the return of the painting to France , believing that ‘ the glorious dead should be left in the graveyard where they chose to rest ’ ; Juan Pedro Aparicio , who suggests carrying ‘ Guernica ’ in procession all around Spain in a high speed train ; the old anarchist Carlos Semprón Maura , who protests at the Reina Sofía 's injection of morphine into ‘ Guernica ’ to prolong its deep coma ; Joan Barril , for whom the dilemma posed by moving ‘ Guernica ’ from the shrine of the Buen Retiro to an apartment with freezer in the ‘ Sofidou ’ could be resolved simply by sending it to Sarajevo , Bangkok or Lima , places where its political message would be more relevant . |