Example sentences of "sent [pron] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One lady had sent me a poem called ‘ Wait for Me ’ by a Russian poet , Konstantin Simonov . |
| 2 | Paul Fabian , the lone British diplomat who gloried in the title of Her Britannic Majesty 's High Commissioner in Tonga and Consul for the United States Island Possessions in the South Pacific , had sent me a telex advising me that yes , Tafahi was the first place in the world to receive the day 's new time and that , moreover , he had only very recently been there . |
| 3 | When , when they 've been down , and they 've been back to school , they 've sent me a collections of drawings and nice little notes about it , and we 've come firm friends because first they look at me , on me as the pond woman , oh , they saw me on television getting my award , and erm they thought that was rather wonderful , and so we , we , we talk and now the , the first ones have quite grown up . |
| 4 | ‘ They had sent me a tape of four songs ; one was called Down And Out and Squonk was another . |
| 5 | He has sent me a copy of Tax Bulletin No 1 , which covers the Revenue 's official line for treating such expenditure . |
| 6 | A mole in The Children 's Society has sent me a copy of a letter the society received from organisers of the European Social Services Conference to be held in Kent in July . |
| 7 | ‘ David , your Headmaster has sent me a letter , ’ said David 's father . |
| 8 | And then I , I was at Doctor 's but he er he has n't sent me a letter . |
| 9 | And er again , when we get to year fifteen , I get one or two clients who say to me well actually the Norwich have just sent me a bonus record through and I 've actually got nine thousand in the pot already , I think I 'll pay the mortgage off . |
| 10 | I got my membership booklet today ( at first I though they had sent me a season ticket by mistake ) . |
| 11 | She had not even sent me a picture postcard . |
| 12 | This year their policy 's has and Direct Line have sent me a quote for two hundred . |
| 13 | ‘ There was every reason for me to suspect that the present was just such a case : the medical cause of the death was perfectly well known to the family — indeed I had sent them a copy of the pathologist 's report . |
| 14 | Lord Petre has sent thee a present of Philip Miller 's second part of his Dictionary in return for the specimens sent him . |
| 15 | ‘ But I 'd sent you a cheque to cover my share of the quarter . ’ |
| 16 | I have sent you a broadsheet which surveys our campaigns . |
| 17 | And look , Mother has sent you a present ! ’ |
| 18 | I have also sent you a catalogue of Greenpeace merchandise so that you may choose from it , and may I draw special attention to the Greenpeace enamel dove badge which we would particularly like you , as a new supporter , to purchase and wear . |
| 19 | Testing role plays I 've sent you a handout on that exercises and there 's a handout on that . |
| 20 | Well they 've sent you a letter from hospital . |
| 21 | Someone had sent him a jacket almost exactly like the ones the famous bomber pilots all wore during the war . |
| 22 | King Philip had sent him a name wrung from the captured spy Tailler , but de Craon could find no trace of such a man . |
| 23 | Hawk had sent him a parcel containing a bisected apple : red outside , white inside . |
| 24 | Why , he asks God , has he never sent him a friend who would have been able to make sense of his inner experience and translate the ‘ music ’ he has heard in his soul into intelligible sound ? |
| 25 | According to Noel Stock 's Life , Pound first met Binyon in the second week of February 1909 , and early in March he found ‘ intensely interesting ’ a lecture by Binyon on European and Oriental art , for which the lecturer had sent him a ticket . |
| 26 | Mr Tersteeg , his ex-employer at The Hague , has sent him a box of paints and a sketchbook . |
| 27 | They had sent him a WPC who looked like a schoolgirl dressed in police uniform for a school play . |
| 28 | When Coffin got back to his own flat , all he found there in the way of post was an enigmatic postcard from his sister Laetitia : she had sent him a view of Edinburgh from the air , with a message scribbled on the back : I am going to the law . |
| 29 | He had first met Sylvester during the early years of the war ; whilst in the Army he had sent him a letter ( now lost ) which Sylvester claims was one of the funniest and most brilliant he has ever received . |
| 30 | Er , I have n't sent him a letter back yet cos I thought , wondered whether anybody 'd like to volunteer to write , I sent a card last year . |