Example sentences of "sent [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Feb. 6 the Cabinet approved and sent on to parliament a package of measures to tighten German export controls . |
| 2 | The cash has been sent on to HQ where it is sorely needed ( see our Spring issue ) . |
| 3 | They were quickly sent on to reception camps . |
| 4 | When Arafat satisfied himself of the identity of the three Palestinians responsible , they were sent down to Tyre ‘ in disgrace ’ . |
| 5 | One of the girls at school assured me that unbaptised infants were sent not to hell , but to limbo . |
| 6 | There is seldom enough winter keep for the whole of the breeding stock , and ewe lambs are often sent away to winter in less rugged conditions . |
| 7 | It 's about fat children who get sent away to camp |
| 8 | She had been sent away to school soon after this , so she had not noticed the beginning of the gradual retrenchment which had resulted in extreme economy . |
| 9 | Certainly Constanze and Wolfgang seem to have gained more satisfaction from their marital relationship than from parenthood : on two occasions they abandoned a newly born baby to the mercies of a wet-nurse while they undertook a prolonged journey ; and , while Mozart occasionally refers affectionately to his eldest son in his letters , the little boy was sent away to school as soon as possible , presumably to give his father some peace to work . |
| 10 | She had talked to him twice already about wanting to be sent away to school and he had looked at her sadly , saying , ‘ But you 're too young , Katherine . |
| 11 | He was sent away to school in Nykoøbing Mors , living with grandparents for seven years . |
| 12 | Their four-year-old son , Charlie , was sent away to school , while Lizzie , aged two , and the baby remained at Broad Street under the care of their grandmother Mrs Coxen . |
| 13 | And , if those circumstances were not er , pertained , then the girls could be sent away to school . |
| 14 | At the age of seven , he was sent away to boarding-school and this event more or less coincided with his father 's remarriage . |
| 15 | She was sent away to boarding-school . |
| 16 | Sent away to boarding school when she was six ( she rarely sees her family now ) , she got three A- levels at college and shortly after got married : a mistake , she now realises , but she was pregnant at the time . |
| 17 | He was sent away to boarding school at Ampleforth and from there went to Trinity College , Cambridge , to read architecture . |
| 18 | If war had not broken out , they would have married , but when the Kleibers were sent away to prison-camp , her last hope of love and security collapsed ; that was when she left the Island and went up West . |
| 19 | He agreed to do so , and Apollinaris , the son of a previous bishop , the great Sidonius Apollinaris , was sent off to king Theuderic as the candidate for the office , and was appointed . |
| 20 | When they are 15 or 16 they are sent off to work as building labourers , clothing makers or worse . |
| 21 | Only the twins are able to convince the terrorist stone to renounce his plan , yet once the crisis has been averted they are sent off to school in Germany . |
| 22 | My sister was sent off to boarding school near Bournemouth to improve her health and was near starved , but Mother always managed to find something for the home fare — I remember a great day when she found the butcher 's bare and bought a goose that was available and that we certainly should n't have had it in normal circumstances and I was quick to see it was an ill wind that did nobody any good ! |
| 23 | When he failed to get in to Merchant Taylors , Iain was sent off to boarding school in Bishop 's Stortford . |
| 24 | Sent up to bed in disgrace , she had left the house within the half-hour , taking refuge first with Aunt Millie . |
| 25 | Damian Cronin , the 29-year-old London Scottish lock , was suffering from flu and on arrival at the team 's hotel was sent straight to bed . |
| 26 | The two youngest , two boys , were sent out to South America , to a third brother . |
| 27 | He was then sent out to work , first at a toy factory in the East End of London and then at an estate agents . |
| 28 | sent out to sea to smoke . |
| 29 | These ‘ centre-devised ’ modules are sent out to specialist advisers for comment and then checked by a small committee , the Catalogue sub-committee , to see whether it makes sense to have the proposal developed for inclusion in the Catalogue . |
| 30 | Ballot papers on strike action are ready to be sent out to Football League players if talks on the Premier League do not meet the satisfaction of the Professional Footballers ' Association which wants a say in the new set-up . |