Example sentences of "sent him a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was an omen when the woman on television 's Sport In Question last week , who had joined in the rebuke of his kicking against the French , sent him a good luck telegram on Saturday . |
| 2 | Nearly 500 prominent Spanish monarchists sent him a collective letter of greeting and welcome , which was published on 13 February . |
| 3 | ( Peter should have remembered because Howley sent him a six word telegram before his own big day . |
| 4 | Her heart gave a sudden lurch as she looked up into his handsome face , and despite herself she sent him a radiant smile . |
| 5 | Lucy swallowed as she sent him a nervous glance . |
| 6 | Merrill sent him a quizzical glance . |
| 7 | She sent him a reproachful look . |
| 8 | Now , as the large car purred into movement , she sent him a tentative look . |
| 9 | On 8 March 1991 the council sent him a standard form letter in terms reflecting those of sections 64 and 65 . |
| 10 | She sent him a faint answering smile , because it was true . |
| 11 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 12 | But he almost always gave the defendant a second chance , and sent him a second summons to appear the following week . |
| 13 | She sent him a haunted look , stammered that she was going , and tried to sidle past him . |
| 14 | She sent him a withering look . |
| 15 | She sent him a taut scowl . |
| 16 | She sent him a dark scowl . |
| 17 | She sent him a mystified glance . |
| 18 | Merrill sent him a disbelieving glance . |
| 19 | He looked at Lissa as though it was all her doing , and she sent him a poisonous stare in return . |
| 20 | One Colombian drug boss , upon hearing in 1987 that Gen Noriega was negotiating with the US to abandon his command for a comfortable exile , sent him a hand-sized mahogany coffin engraved with his name . |
| 21 | Maria sent him a smouldering glance as her mind screamed its resistance to the idea of there ever being anything personal between them , and every muscle in her body clenched in physical imitation of that wild denial . |
| 22 | There do exist two or three letters from Christabel to Hearst — she even sent him a few poems in one , which he kept , fortunately for us . |
| 23 | He has received a letter from one of the farmers which I sent him a few days ago . |
| 24 | Her breath caught , and she sent him a startled look and , as her heart gave a merry flutter to see that his dark-eyed glance , dark and good-humoured if she was not mistaken , was on her again , ‘ Are you inviting me to call you — Vendelin ? ’ she dared , and hardly believed that it could be so . |
| 25 | Next day , she sent him a huge parcel of books about Germany . |
| 26 | She sent him a significant smile . |
| 27 | Karen sent him a sweet smile . |
| 28 | Each time I sent him a rewritten chapter , he sent back a long list of objections and questions he wanted me to clarify . |
| 29 | If he failed to pay one instalment , he was fined a halfpenny for every shilling , which became a penny after the second omission when the loan society secretary sent him a circular letter for which a fee of threepence was exacted . |
| 30 | She sent him a rapid glance . |