Example sentences of "[vb past] send [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They ’ tried to send him to music lessons but he preferred to sit and copy an uncle who played boogie-woogie .
2 They always forgot to send it with the papers .
3 ‘ And all the money your dad spent sending you to public school , ’ said Constance .
4 You got to send it to the address
5 ‘ Sometimes , he would lose his temper and start breaking the furniture ; and his family decided to send him to the maison de santé at Gheel .
6 My father for some reason went to Cheltenham , where he was happy ; but he decided to send us to Eton .
7 This left my father 's parents badly off , but they managed to send him to Oxford , where he studied medicine .
8 a boys ' school and the headmaster there advised me not to put him there , he said send him to Newport Grammar school it 's the best school in Essex , best grammar school in Essex and he said that my two boys go there
9 She was so badly tortured that the authorities had to send her to hospital .
10 ‘ I kept sending the demands back and when I went in I was told not to worry , they had to send them to the last known address .
11 Then the machine started printing lines all over the paper and we had to send someone into the shops to remove all the faulty rolls . ’
12 I went back again and was told that I had to send it off myself for repairs to the address on the guarantee card and pay £4 postage and insurance .
13 She had sent him on the way to solving the mystery of her husband 's murder .
14 He really should have had the sense to bring his emergency bag and the roll of towelling with him , but Rose 's terrified urgency had sent him on his way with all speed .
15 Cumbermound had sent him for brandy and glasses .
16 It is therefore difficult for him to appreciate the general view of the Service , that , on his return … he must re-establish his professional standing , even though a few years earlier the Service had sent him to University because he had proved himself to be a good , practical policeman .
17 His parents had sent him to Oslo immediately after Hitler 's annexation of Austria , when he was only nine .
18 He was roller-coasting towards a high-rise career and now they had sent him to this stinking backwater to test further his resolve and capability .
19 Fleury , of course , had no business being there at all , but Harry had sent him to the Residency with a message and while passing by he had found the defence so desperately hard pressed that he had forgotten all about Harry .
20 Instead , his GP had sent him to Crosshouse Hospital near Kilmarnock , where he died from a colloid cyst in the brain .
21 Yeah that 's right , very good , so nine , by pouring out this holy spirit and Jesus , Jehovah was er knighting him or appointing him to be the king of this coming kingdom , thing thus have anointed with the spirit , Jesus became the Messiah , which words in the Hebrew and Greek languages mean appoint , a anointed , therefore he became in fact Jesus Christ or Jesus the United , so , so it was Apostle Peter spoke of Jesus who was from Nazareth , Nazareth , how about anointed them , but all the spirit and power , also by his baptism and water , Jesus was presenting himself to God , to carry out the work that God had sent him to earth to do , what was that important work ?
22 but if he had sent him to the eye hospital he 'd have waited two years .
23 She had sent him in an ambulance to Crosshouse Hospital .
24 Recently he was called up by the Customs and Excise about 20 videos ( mostly tapes from TV ) a friend had sent him from America .
25 Sensing impending doom , their mother had sent them to be hidden in the Gaean vale .
26 They did not even receive presents their mother and other people had sent them for Christmas .
27 They manage to get food sent through to the controlled zones and I saw a van come back laden with fruit which the compañeros had sent them in return .
28 Would Gay like the bedroom slippers she had sent her for Christmas ?
29 The scene that had sent her on her journey .
30 His caresses had urged her to a wild , uninhibited passion she 'd never known she possessed — but it was the love she felt for him that had sent her into such a breathtaking completion .
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