Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] sent [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'd sent you a cheque to cover my share of the quarter . ’ |
| 2 | I had sent her a copy of my memoir , but her noncommittal letter of thanks had given no indication of whether she had read it . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | I 've sent them a big consignment of wine , I 'm in that as well as the grocery , and I 'd love to know how it 's selling . " |
| 5 | I 've sent you a perfectly useless present — to wit : a fountain pen — as a small token to mark the Big Day . |
| 6 | I 've sent you a young man who loves horses as you do , and who can continue your work with them . |
| 7 | Testing role plays I 've sent you a handout on that exercises and there 's a handout on that . |
| 8 | Someone had sent him a jacket almost exactly like the ones the famous bomber pilots all wore during the war . |
| 9 | I have sent you a broadsheet which surveys our campaigns . |
| 10 | Heading up Wood Group engineering 's activities in Dubai and Abu Dhabi is Bill Reid who has sent us the following report : . |
| 11 | I recently helped one of the Costain girls on some research and she has sent me the final document , which I suspect will one day be of invaluable professional use , so it was nice she remembered . |
| 12 | I made a booking for erm , two doubles and two singles for the seventh and eighth you 've sent me the confirmation out at the non-delegate price . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was n't quite sure why the possibility that it was Luke Hunter who had sent her the flowers was so disturbing … |
| 15 | ‘ But with your good friend and benefactor , Monsieur Amaury de Craon , who had sent you a secret message saying he was staying at the palace ! |
| 16 | ‘ She 's sent me an extraordinary letter . |
| 17 | and this chap said erm he said , I 'm sorry to trouble you we 've sent you an invitation to come to this building thing and I sa |
| 18 | ‘ We have sent him a loyal birthday telegram in exile , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I add them up yesterday and said what 's it , what do I do , I 've not come to , now they 've sent me a temporary one . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ If I 've got my pants on in the second scene , I think they 've sent me the wrong script , ’ he says . |
| 22 | He 'd tried , the first year , rooming with the others , and had found they still came up to him all the time with their queries — ‘ They 've sent me the wrong costume for Gypsy Baron . |
| 23 | Well they 've sent you a letter from hospital . |
| 24 | This was an important mission , yet they had sent him a minor police official who seemed to have little standing or influence . |
| 25 | They had sent him a WPC who looked like a schoolgirl dressed in police uniform for a school play . |
| 26 | ‘ They had sent me a tape of four songs ; one was called Down And Out and Squonk was another . |
| 27 | I got my membership booklet today ( at first I though they had sent me a season ticket by mistake ) . |
| 28 | He has sent me a copy of Tax Bulletin No 1 , which covers the Revenue 's official line for treating such expenditure . |
| 29 | Appropriately , he has sent us a letter about a piece he saw in last Thursday 's Diary . |
| 30 | He had very deliberately told her to get lost , and when she did n't take the hint , he 'd sent her an obscene note . |