Example sentences of "send to [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead they send to Shiloh for the ark . |
| 2 | If it 's all er arrested for shooting of Anthony sent to prison for five years plus six months for possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life . |
| 3 | Now in the eyes of the law , they have committed a crime , but if you put that situation before a jury , and even though the judge may instruct the jury , a crime has been committed , you must find them guilty , the jury 's inclination will probably be to say , natural justice , you , that you you done what was required of you , that you do n't deserve to be either convicted or sent to prison for it . |
| 4 | When John Colville , Churchill 's secretary , joined the RAF , he was sent to Witbank for flying training . ’ |
| 5 | In a plan adopted by the cabinet , and sent to parliament for approval , the government calls for a reduction of 35 per cent in pesticide applications by 1995 , rising to 50 per cent by the year 2000 . |
| 6 | Sometimes a cake may be sent to school for the children to share ; sharing a cake for a large group of children would not be done by the children themselves , though it might turn into a spontaneous counting activity . |
| 7 | But a senior social worker says he believes young offenders who are sent to court for first offences are far more likely to commit new crimes . |
| 8 | Dana claimed that he expanded his diary into the narrative Two Years Before the Mast ( the significant subtitle is ‘ An authentic narrative of a sailor 's Life at Sea ’ ) in order to represent the seaman 's view ignored in other sea-stories , but as a young undergraduate , sent to sea for his health , he presented a life of hardship and monotony from an educated point of view and seems in any case to have been more concerned with exact recording of weather , cargoes and seaman 's techniques than with personal behaviour and attitudes . |
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| 10 | Lester Piggott , his brilliant successor from the 1960s to the 1980s , was driven by such a desperate , obsessive need for wealth and security that he was sent to prison for persistently defrauding the Inland Revenue of its share of his millions . |
| 11 | In America a journalist was sent to prison for refusing to disclose information which could have revealed the innocence of a person on trial , but prison would not normally be an option in a civil case . |
| 12 | Later on , when Richard Baxter was sent to prison for his faith in 1669 , Margaret went with him , bringing her ‘ best bed ’ with her . |
| 13 | However , on 4 October 1987 , Barrie Penrose , a very experienced journalist with the Sunday Times , identified these two as Michael Randle and Pat Pottle , members of the left-wing radical group , the Committee of 100 , not CND , and in February 1962 both were sent to prison for 18 months for offences under the Official Secrets Act . |
| 14 | Two Dutchmen , Hans Guyt and Willem Beekman , were eventually sent to prison for six weeks over this protest . |
| 15 | He was sent to prison for life . |
| 16 | The gipsies , instead of being sent to prison for stealing a pony , were only fined for stealing potatoes and oats . |
| 17 | There ai n't no sanity clause ! ’ ) , but the humour of the occasion is dampened by the fact that this maelstrom of accusal and refutation , doing nothing to enhance the good name of psychology in general or the British Psychological society in particular , involves the principle of confidentiality of psychological tests coupled with the issue of a man sent to prison for a crime that — perhaps — he did not commit . |
| 18 | In no circumstances can a debtor now be sent to prison for failing , no matter how deliberately , to pay a hotel bill or an account with a shop or a hire-purchase debt , yet the air has not been filled with the ululations of stricken credit traders unable to recover their money . |
| 19 | If you are sent to prison for up to six months , you have to wait seven years ; a fine is wiped clean after five years and probation or conditional discharge takes one year . |
| 20 | One very reliable source recalled another John Birch who had indeed been sent to prison for the offence mentioned above , and my informant suspects that this is where the confusion initially stemmed from . |
| 21 | He was convicted of manslaughter and sent to prison for 10 . |
| 22 | Businessman Racch-Paul Bedi wanted the BT chairman and two top executives sent to prison for breaking a court order . |
| 23 | He was still under the shadow of a more famous British broadcaster in Berlin , Norman Baillie-Stewart , an officer of the Seaforth Highlanders who had been court-martialled and sent to prison for five years in 1933 for selling military secrets to Germany . |
| 24 | Any person who without reasonable cause fails to comply may be sent to prison for not more than six months . |
| 25 | But when the judge does n't ask you to plead , and you 're not guilty , you 're treated like a person who 's sent to prison for a crime that she has n't committed . |
| 26 | I was sent to prison for five weeks . |
| 27 | These were accepted by the judges as signs of his madness , and in the end Boldwood was sent to prison for life . |
| 28 | From the early days he seems to have become involved in trade-union activities , and for his part in the Manchester strike of 1818 he was sent to prison for two years in 1819 . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , I know a few Romanies have been sent to prison for poaching — but so have a great many gorgios . |
| 30 | ‘ A gorgio sent to prison for attacking a Romany girl ? ’ |