Example sentences of "sent [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gina had wanted him sent away to school . |
| 2 | Cicely Courtneidge was put into a soldier 's costume and sent off to war in pursuit of her simple-minded husband in the clumsy Me and Marlborough ( 1935 ) . |
| 3 | There was no sign of the three people I was looking for , although there were a few strange faces : three or four wives with young children sent out to grass from Athens , and one or two old couples , dehydrated rentiers , who doddered in and out of the mournful lounges of the Hotel Philadelphia . |
| 4 | ‘ Faxfinders ’ work means that a computer print out of all outstanding orders of odd lids and bases is produced and sent out to production areas . |
| 5 | The deepest psychic hurts are to a sense of decorum , and Lord of the Flies ends with a hint of normal life to come : the boys will be scrubbed and dressed , one may be sure , their barbarities and indecencies put behind them , and sent back to school . |
| 6 | They were stopped at Watford Gap and sent back to West Yorkshire . |
| 7 | Messenger sent back to base for tools , instruments , parts . |
| 8 | People had been awe-struck by the pictures sent back to earth by Voyager 2 of arid lifeless planets and moons . |
| 9 | The pictures sent back to earth tell an important environmental story . |
| 10 | The schoolboy sent back to class with a broken arm . |