Example sentences of "sent i [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My Dad sent me up here . |
| 2 | Cos I wa , I was directly involved when I did a hell of a lot of work for Marconis , they sent me up to Glenrossi 's cos they got a micro er , electronics factory up there doing micro-chips , and one of the big coal mines up there had just been closed down and they said well , there 's no doubt about it , you know wha what we got ta do is re-train the miners ! |
| 3 | I croaked out , which hospital , but she had n't a clue and sent me up to ask somebody called Coleman . " |
| 4 | And I got the job of going up Then they sent me up knocking th knocking the wagons off . |
| 5 | It was that phone call that sent me up the cul-de-sac . |
| 6 | Yeah she sent me up to bed . |
| 7 | Once my lady 's sister was staying at Hurst Castle not far off , and there was to be a grand ball , and her ladyship sent me over in the coach to dress her sister 's hair , Lady Winton that was . |
| 8 | The District Military Council sent me over to the Area Military Commissariat as an adviser , but these young men do n't want an old man 's advice . |
| 9 | Er you sent me on I 'm gon na go , and I came up before the receptionist . |
| 10 | Sometimes , if they did n't know the one I was after , they sent me off in search of one or two they had of their own . |
| 11 | It certainly relit an old flame of interest within me , and sent me off in two different directions at once . |
| 12 | I tried to explain to Drew , but he just sent me off . ’ |
| 13 | When I came round they gave me a large tot of whisky , another injection of morphia and sent me off to Imtarfa , as drunk as a lord . |
| 14 | Six weeks ago they sent me off to Paisley College in Scotland to make a radio report on a new course at its Alcohol Studies Centre : the intoxication workshop . |
| 15 | His mouth opened and closed while portraits of notables revolved on some sort of belt contraption behind him and my mind strayed to Phil Collins 's story about the time he went up and asked Steve Davis for an autograph : ‘ He did n't even glance at me , just sent me off to get a pen , and then signed his name , still without looking at me . |
| 16 | I do n't suppose I was more than 10 when the harvesters sent me off to the nearest pub to get some cider in a couple of bottles . |
| 17 | But no I think er they thought I could speak English better than some of them themselves so they sent me off to English universities or wherever to put across our problems . |
| 18 | An ‘ undred years ago they would ‘ ave ‘ anged me on the spot or sent me off to Australia , so I ca n't complain . |
| 19 | So I was close by and so they sent me in so the way I , I got dressed up in the minister 's cassock , and I got in revised the books of Genesis , like through and I get genned up to be a minister and I took in a bible and er well anyway I killed five men and they got out alive . |
| 20 | But he sent me in to ask you something . |
| 21 | He sent me back to Lappeenranta with a distance runner , Steve Harris . |
| 22 | ‘ The boss sent me back , ’ she replied dismissively and crouched down in front of him . |
| 23 | But the foreman sent me back , although it was already too dark to see the field let alone the larks . |
| 24 | got better they sent me back . |
| 25 | so they 're like sending me a list , well they sent me back a half list |
| 26 | And she sent me down to the Headmistress and she says , ‘ You 've been drinking , have n't you ? |
| 27 | And sent me down to down to er down to what 's the name of the place now ? |
| 28 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 29 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 30 | ‘ The Gruagach sent me here , ’ began Caspar , and stopped , and then went on with more assurance , ‘ they sent me along to see if you can provide a — well , I do n't know what you 'd call it really . |