Example sentences of "sent [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'll be cleaned and sent for scrap . |
| 2 | She had sent for lawyers . |
| 3 | A sputum specimen may be sent for culture if an infection is suspected . |
| 4 | The lowest-level wastes could either be sent for sea disposal or dumped on land at a special site at Drigg , near Sellafield . |
| 5 | Two lovers from the village , looking for a quiet spot , found them and sent for help . |
| 6 | The anti-freeze and brake fluid is collected to make more of the same , any petrol is used by factory vehicles , and the battery is taken to bits with every part -acid , lead and plastic casing — sent for recycling . |
| 7 | Plastic cups sent for recycling |
| 8 | As the director of child services , Jim Harding , said : ‘ For abuse to take place in an institution where a child has been sent for protection must be one of the cruellest experiences you can dish out to any human being . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Serrano claimed the soldiers were sent for protection . |
| 10 | He was sent for officer training , and a year later he was a company commander . |
| 11 | He had sent for Philip who had raced up from Wales to coach and instruct this miraculous son in a great Shakespearian role to be performed in an Oxford college before an audience of West End luminaries ( Gielgud , Terence Rattigan ) : ‘ We worked on it line by line , hour after hour , into the early morning … |
| 12 | The Queen sent for Churchill and Salisbury . |
| 13 | The widely believed story that as King Edward VII lay dying , his wife Queen Alexandra magnanimously sent for Mrs Keppel to take leave of him , is inaccurate . |
| 14 | Sylvester weakly sent for Nutty . |
| 15 | Alan Swindon , 25 , of Elliott Drive , Felling , Newcastle , was sent for crown court trial by Newcastle magistrates yesterday charged with murdering Paul Furness , 21 , of Ashington , outside a city centre nightclub last November . |
| 16 | The rest of the class suffered its demise in the winter of 1934 when they were replaced by the streamlined double-deckers as part of Manager Walter Luff 's modernisation of the tramway. 59 was spared and sent for storage to Fleetwood depot , following a valedictory tribute in the Evening Gazette : ‘ They were clumsy , awkward and dangerous , but they were Blackpool 's own trams , and there was nothing like them anywhere else . |
| 17 | West German fuel rods were formerly sent for storage in the USA , until the practice was halted by environmental objections in 1988 . |
| 18 | Thomas has been unable to shake off his recurring injury and , when the problem flared again after a midweek reserve game , he was sent for surgery . |
| 19 | That was when they had sent for Captain Freddie , and after what he described as a long , sometimes ‘ vair ackermonious diskussion ’ , and after a good deal of long distance telephoning , fax instructions had finally come through that allowed the Chileans to accept his decision as to what was required . |
| 20 | Hope had sent for Burkett : when the man and his daughter arrived , he took them to a quiet corner of the yard . |
| 21 | This was understandable in the fear of being sent for service abroad , and there were riots in 1778 when enforced recruitment was tried . |
| 22 | In the war of 1939–45 nearly 100 were sent for service in the Middle East . |
| 23 | At peak times it is expected that two transfers a week between the archive and the Working-Set and vice versa will occur , and that material will be sent for composition twice a week during peak use . |
| 24 | In a routine way by September 1830 the committee of the Anti-Slavery Society sent for insertion a short notice requesting petitions ‘ to the Editors of the provincial Newspapers and of Religious Periodicals ’ . |
| 25 | So he at once resigned , and the King sent for MacDonald . |
| 26 | She frequently attacked her attendants and discharged herself from institutions where she had been sent for treatment . |
| 27 | There was also a link through to Archie McIndoe , one of the finest plastic surgeons of his day , who was based at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead , where badly burned pilots were sent for treatment . |
| 28 | But , although they were amused at first , I do n't think they liked it and , after a while , he was sent for treatment . |
| 29 | InteWord , the second of the packages sent for inspection , follows the same overall command structure as InteCalc , essential for modular integration , but suffers from many of the same limitations . |
| 30 | It is likely that these poems were not sent for publication until Edwards and Richardson decided on a second volume . |