Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] sent to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An hour later I was being monitored at the Birmingham Maternity Hospital — weak contractions confirmed in labour , I was sent to the ward in a wheelchair . |
| 2 | I was sent to The Children 's Service , usually held at St. Mary Magdalene 's Church in Gigant Street at 9.30 am . |
| 3 | As a Navy wife , I was sent to the home of Admiral Shelley , ‘ The Pickeridge ’ nearby . |
| 4 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 5 | ‘ It seemed quite pointless to hope once I was sent to the farm . |
| 6 | I was sent to the new office in India to take charge , while Herbert came back to England to marry his Clara . |
| 7 | Yes , when I got home at night I I was er I had to I was sent to the hospital I was bleeding . |
| 8 | When we first came to St , Albans , I was sent to the High School for Girls , which despite its name took boys up to the age of ten . |
| 9 | Well I was sent to the erm United , well it was n't a United Reform Church then but it was called the Chapel and I was sent to there , to Sunday School there , mornings and afternoon and we went two by two across to the Chapel , you see , so while my father , we used to walk down the street together . |
| 10 | As early as 1955 a CAB sub-committee was set up by the national committee to consider hire purchase problems as seen by bureaux all over the country and by other voluntary organisations with experience of families in difficulty ; and in addition to recommendations about trade practices , about possible action by local authorities , and other things , which were sent to the appropriate associations or government departments , the deliberations of the committee produced results which were to have an influence on the trend and standing of much CAB work in the future . |
| 11 | The class also used the mailbox facility to ask for brochures which were sent to the school . |
| 12 | Wh where did you go to anyway when you when you were sent to the front ? |
| 13 | But as a small child she was so inspired by anything to do with the theatre that at six she was sent to the Barbara Speake stage school in Acton , west London . |
| 14 | For her part in the daring escapade , Flora Macdonald was taken prisoner and , for a year , lay incarcerated on a troopship in Leith Roads in the Firth of Forth , before being taken to London , where she was sent to the Tower . |
| 15 | The daughter of a sailor who was lost at sea , she was sent to the Dean Orphanage where she received a solid education and showed promise . |
| 16 | As early as 1551 she was sent to the Princess Elizabeth ‘ to drawe owt her picture ’ . |
| 17 | In 1971 I was in command of Venturous when she was sent to the North West Coast of Scotland , a winter patrol specifically designed to keep a check on the foreign fishing fleets engaged in " Klondyking " . |
| 18 | When he took over in October 1964 , he enjoyed two other advantages : his majority of four ensured that the fractious Parliamentary Labour Party would have to behave ; and , apart from Patrick Gordon Walker , whom he appointed Foreign Secretary , and James Griffiths , who was sent to the newly created Welsh Office , only he possessed Cabinet experience . |
| 19 | She only remembered that right from the beginning he took her with him , and it was she who was sent to the doors to ask politely if they had anything to sell . |
| 20 | They fell foul , on the other hand , of Simon de Mont fort , who was sent to the south-west of France by King Henry III in 1248 to curb the unruliness there and ended up assaulting the Viscount of Soule in his castle in Mauléon . |
| 21 | Djore Držić 's nephew , Marin Držić ( 1508–67 ) , was a poor scholar who was sent to the University of Siena on a stipend from the Ragusan Senate . |
| 22 | So both boys went to the state school in spite of Father Michael at St Oswald 's , but it was a hollow victory because twice a week , once after school , once on Saturdays , they were sent to the Convent to learn catechism off the nuns so they would grow up good Catholics after all . |
| 23 | Then they were sent to the camp at Drancy , and from there they were put on trains and sent to Auschwitz to be gassed . |
| 24 | And any any reso what I call resolutions that were passed they were sent to the proper departments of government . |
| 25 | Now those were the issues that were leading us sir had left us to make an objection to this structure plan that we thought erm the detailed papers on it were sent to the county in our in our objections , they led us to by a series of calculations to come to the view that around about a hundred hectares would be more appropriate for Harrogate , this is in addition to its Greater York supplement , erm than what is now settled upon which is sixty hectares . |
| 26 | After 8 April the aluminium returned to tapwater when a mains burst : sludge was found at the bottom of a glass of water but when it was sent to the authority for analysis it was discarded as ‘ too sludgy ’ . |
| 27 | The brass work was cast in the brass foundry , and from there it was sent to the brass finishing shop for machining and cleaning up , afterwards traversing the plating department where it received either venetian bronze , oxidised silver or plain brass lacquer finish , next passing to position No 3 for fixing in the carriage . |
| 28 | They have n't received your invoice or statement because it was n't sent or it was sent to the wrong address . |
| 29 | ‘ It was sent to the press , at least to one paper , the Paternoster Review . |
| 30 | That was a bit of an exception , as it was sent to the first Independents Exhibition in New York and , as is the case with all the Independents exhibitions , there was no hanging committee . |