Example sentences of "[verb] sent [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lawler has sent me from The Haven to collect the thirty brace of grouse he ordered , ’ Maggie said with a smile . |
| 2 | " Now you are truly betrothed , Sara , for this is a keepsake from Dom João , and he has sent it as a token of his promise to make you his wife . " |
| 3 | And she was hoping that they would have sent her for an interview down there . |
| 4 | ‘ You should 've sent me to a decent school , ’ said Camille . |
| 5 | Well , they 've sent us in an application er , very detailed , very go good letter , actually . |
| 6 | I 've done it and I 've sent it off No |
| 7 | It was only when I rang her up to chase up what had happened to the she says , oh dear I 've sent it to the wrong one . |
| 8 | She had sent him on the way to solving the mystery of her husband 's murder . |
| 9 | Fleury , of course , had no business being there at all , but Harry had sent him to the Residency with a message and while passing by he had found the defence so desperately hard pressed that he had forgotten all about Harry . |
| 10 | but if he had sent him to the eye hospital he 'd have waited two years . |
| 11 | She had sent him in an ambulance to Crosshouse Hospital . |
| 12 | To have the thing scraped or vacuumed out of her womb , the very thought of it last night had sent her to the bathroom , heaving over the modern white lavatory . |
| 13 | Her parents had sent her to the convent , and she begged them to let her become a Catholic after she 'd been there only a year . |
| 14 | Then when we met again , you would be full of all you had done — a ride on your motor bike to Alba de Tormes or Ledesma , a strange church you had discovered , or a new book someone had sent you from the States . |
| 15 | the plaintiff had ‘ purchased ’ a car from a person who had no title to it and had sent it to a garage for repair . |
| 16 | Minton claimed he had sent it to an exhibition under the name ‘ Francis Smiling ’ and that one critic commented that Francis Smiling had been influenced by Minton 's colour . |
| 17 | Drew had denied that the clothing had been cleaned there and insisted that he had sent it to the cleaners in Swansea and Rochdale previously on the tour . |
| 18 | These poor folk , whose lack of privilege is just one of the many thrusting reasons that have sent me to the bosom , not to mention the buttocks , of today 's quite heavenly Labour Party , may find that my pronunciamentos become somewhat impenetrable once past the ninth , tenth , or even twenty-third of their constituent subordinate clauses , so that the very juicy and surprisingly supple points that I make are lost amidst their attendant persiflage . |