Example sentences of "been sent [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps , also , as a young boy Jesus himself might have been sent on errands to fill the pitcher . |
2 | Digging might not be classed as essential training , but he 'd been sent on attachment to learn all about real soldiering . |
3 | The doctor has been sent on leave from her post as an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard . |
4 | Although Mr Smith would also win widespread support from MPs and constituency parties , the Conservatives could argue that Mr Kinnock 's replacement had been sent on his way by the union barons . |
5 | For several years , she had not been attending school regularly but had instead been sent on provincial theatre tours , first with a dancing troupe and later as a violinist or actress . |
6 | Rose should surely have reached Vetch Street by now and Eddie been sent on his way by Matey or McAllister after being summoned from his nearby home . |
7 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on . |
8 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on.A 17-year-old youth made a remark and the offence was committed . |
9 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
10 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |
11 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
12 | Pearce v Foster indicated why it was that if the original affidavit or a copy made by the employee had been sent to the solicitors , that would not have been privileged from disclosure by the first and second defendants , although sent to the solicitors for the purpose of advising them on their position against the employee . |
13 | Sinn Fein said 49 such photographs had been sent to its office in Monaghan in the Irish Republic . |
14 | Sinn Fein said a further 49 photographs had been sent to its office in Monaghan in the Irish Republic . |
15 | About 1,500 East Germans who managed to reach Bonn 's embassy in Warsaw in the past few weeks have been sent to the West in two special trains . |
16 | After the catalogue had been sent to the printer , Sotheby 's asked the Oxford Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art to try thermoluminescent dating on two pieces . |
17 | If , however , you find you have made a mistake with contributions after your P14 ( End-of-Year Return ) has been sent to the Inspector of Taxes , you have two alternatives : |
18 | With forty picked men he was given special powers ; 228 wagons were needed , but only thirty had been sent to Siberia . |
19 | Both the latter films were made by Walter Booth for Charles Urban , an American who had been sent to Britain in order to look after Edison 's interests , then set up on his own as a distributor and exporter of French and American films . |
20 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours , Labour MP for Workington , claims that the leak inquiry , which followed publication of parts of the report in a special edition of the Observer , discovered that copy 26 had been sent to the paper 's owners , Lonrho . |
21 | President George Bush said yesterday that a special US anti-terrorist team had been sent to El Salvador on Tuesday but had not been involved in ending the siege . |
22 | Public-service advertisements have been sent to newspapers , magazines and television programmes . |
23 | His trained pet poodle who had been sent to Europe to reconnoitre the scene and steal Mark 's clothes . |
24 | St Paul had been sent to Rome a prisoner , and suffered eventual execution . |
25 | The SD at Stuttgart recorded a comment , said to be frequently encountered in differing variants : ‘ It 's always claimed that the Führer has been sent to us from God . |
26 | When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward . |
27 | The finders of this bombshell were two Justice Department officials , Brad Reynolds and John Richardson , who had been sent to North 's office to look through papers relating to the shipments to Iran . |
28 | The local Garda had been sent to Ashford Castle to protect Reagan , and they did n't get on with the CIA at all . |
29 | Well , I have practised yoga for many years , but then I met a Jesuit priest who had been sent to the Far East by the Catholic Church to experience the Buddhist way and see how it might relate to Catholic worship . |
30 | At an informal level , they had not wholly lacked it before ; £3000 had been sent to them in August 1559 , and in January the English Admiral Winter had appeared in the forth , officially searching for pirates but actually cutting the French troops ' line of communication between their strongholds in Fife and Leith . |