Example sentences of "sent i [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah , but some of the letters have come , in fact they sent me that catalogue you know |
| 2 | ‘ Why you sent me that copy of your father 's letter . ’ |
| 3 | So saying , when my wife Catherine died of cancer , Anthea sent me persistent invitations to spend a few days at her cottage , or even just come for a meal . |
| 4 | Dad hated old Gran anyway , we had n't seen her for years and she always sent me Californian Poppy Bath Salts for Christmas . |
| 5 | ‘ He sent me 26 roses when it was my birthday and I sent him 48 naked sailors . ’ |
| 6 | One particular incident which sticks in my mind which brought home to me how ill he was occurred when my mother sent me one morning to ask my father what he wanted for breakfast , to which he replied in a very vague and confused manner " hen mush " ( the term we gave to the vegetable matter we cooked up for the chickens ) . |
| 7 | But my ex heard about this and sent me two letters , full of how much he cares for me and that the break-up was his fault . |
| 8 | Sent me two sheets for the official ledger , two sheets peoples handicaps , three medals and two medal certificates and that was the whole |
| 9 | You sent me 200 francs , 100 of which naturally went to Survage , without whose help I would have been completely broke … but now … |
| 10 | I learned that , like Jane Austen , she was an ASROG ( Abbey School Reading Old Girl ) , though it was not until years later that she sent me these scraps from a diary kept during her schooldays . |
| 11 | This week 's prize goes by unanimous decision of the judges to East Sussex director Nicholas Holbrook who sent me this letter on alarmingly realistic DoH headed notepaper , with alarmingly realistic signatures of SSI supremo Herbert Laming and Alan Langlands of the NHS Management Executive . |
| 12 | They sent me this picture . ’ |
| 13 | He had a daughter my age called Zoe and he sent me illustrated books of Australian flowers and bird-life . |
| 14 | But anyway : while he was tramping through that dull and backward province with his malign companion , Gustave sent me another flower , plucked from beside the tomb of Châteaubriand . |
| 15 | Mum had a habit , whenever she sent me any distance on an errand , of insisting that I had clean bloomers on , ‘ in case yer get knocked down by a 'orse ’ , which was why I was scared of them . |
| 16 | As it stood , it consisted of a multi-volume jumble of vers libre , written over many years , some in the form of letters , especially to her mother — ‘ if I sent her a letter she sent me some money — so I kept on writing ’ — listing the men she 'd known . |
| 17 | Do you like me Christmas frock , the , our David sent me some money from America |
| 18 | And at the moment we 're on the ninth of this month , I received a copy today they s they sent me some material , erm they 've actually been given photographs by people like er Ansell Adams , Fay Goodwin , er David er Bailey . |