Example sentences of "sent [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's why they sent me to school — cos I 'm handicapped . |
| 2 | I did n't know what career I wanted which baffled the system so they sent me to Edinburgh for a year . |
| 3 | ‘ Our new steamer at Linthouse … the launching your husband sent me to … the Daphne ! ’ |
| 4 | She sent me to that convent , thinkin' she would make something o' me . ' |
| 5 | ‘ The crime they sent me to prison for ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ They sent me to prison for trying to free my country . |
| 7 | I lost some weight and felt ill enough to go to the doctor who sent me to hospital in Northallerton . |
| 8 | The Sister sent me to her room , but she was n't there . |
| 9 | Isobel read it and sent me to Professor MacFee — an English Professor — with it , and they both helped me to send it to a publisher in London . |
| 10 | In the summer of 1973 when Pursuit was on its way to the printers , the BBC sent me to Washington to cover the Senate Watergate hearings . |
| 11 | To do this he sent me to another sort of specialist who inserted through my neck a needle containing blue dye , guided it with the help of a television screen into the top of my spinal cord and then watched its progress as it trickled down . |
| 12 | ‘ You sent me to Stalinvast — ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Then it 's a good job I spent time with the Soviet Embassy in Stockholm before they sent me to Washington . |
| 14 | I had that and my mum sent me to ballet classes |
| 15 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 16 | And she sent me to a mother and toddler group , I mean , she did n't tell me about any self-help groups , it 's mother and toddler , she just said take you and the baby and go to mother and toddler and that 'll be it . |
| 17 | ‘ My dad was killed in the pit , and my ma died soon after , so Gran sent me to London . |
| 18 | I was there for another month , then they sent me to Bullwood Hall . |
| 19 | They sent me to Holloway and then to Styal . |
| 20 | Last time , he sent me to a weather ship in the Antarctic ! |
| 21 | And of course not long after that erm I was took ill and er I er had to have the doctor and they sent me to hospital . |
| 22 | So they sent me to Morbry 's Lane Wharf , Colliery Wharf . |
| 23 | So the sent me to the er eye infirmary and of course the eye infirmary sent me to the blind school . |
| 24 | So the sent me to the er eye infirmary and of course the eye infirmary sent me to the blind school . |
| 25 | After that , the doctor sent me to casualty , where a surgeon made a two-inch-long incision on the top of my head , but could n't find the beast . |
| 26 | I had been poorly for a while and could n't eat and the doctor thought it may be appendicitis so he sent me to Darlington Hospital . |
| 27 | I , I have got it on the prescription I had to get it Doctor sent me to the hospital , |
| 28 | Undismayed , she sent me to a first-class crammer for two terms , and Brian to another preparatory school . |
| 29 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 30 | I do n't suppose you 're even capable of having dreams like the ones I used to have before they sent me to you . |