Example sentences of "sent [pers pn] [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 . |
| 19 | Instead , Frith sent them strange singers , beautiful and sick like oak-apples , like robins ' pin-cushions on the wild rose . |
| 20 | So we had a plant built to dilute our own acid , supplied customers with tanks and sent them dilute acid . |
| 21 | It was perfectly acceptable for Minton to take Vaughan down to ‘ Marshalls ’ , as he did in December 1946 , and the following year Edie sent them both nuts , port and a Christmas log , as a result of which , Minton thanked her , ‘ English romanticism will flourish again' . |
| 22 | Prior to his arrival Sotheby 's ( still specialising heavily in books at this date ) had an unwritten agreement with Christie 's that they sent them any pictures brought to their offices and in return Christie 's sent them any books they received for sale . |
| 23 | The Letter calls him king of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes , which if genuine implies that he already claimed Olaf 's throne , and Florence of Worcester says that in 1027 he heard that some Norwegians were discontented , sent them large quantities of gold and silver , and secured an undertaking of future support . |
| 24 | Incidentally , with Simon 's letter of 22 December , he sent you two copies of the Agreement for the tape . |
| 25 | I see from my files that Simon Murison-Bowie sent you two copies of the Agreement for this tape which required signing on behalf of the University of Toronto and return to us , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements in his letter of 19 February . |
| 26 | With that letter , I sent you two copies of the Agreement for signature on behalf of Bell Communications Research , on whose behalf I understand you placed the order , and requested details of the specification you wished the tape to be prepared to . |
| 27 | I refer you to my letter of 8 March regarding the above tape , with which I sent you two copies of the Agreement that had been drawn up ( following your request of 7 March ) . |
| 28 | With my letter , I sent you two copies of an Agreement that had been drawn up for signature on behalf of AT&T , and asked for confirmation of your tape specification requirements . |
| 29 | They sent you all notes on |
| 30 | ‘ It may take longer than that to find out who sent you that letter , ’ he said rather shortly . |