Example sentences of "[verb] been send [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Typically , it had been Ivy , he 'd learned , who had been sent to collect the letter from Ruggiero which the gang had left in the rubbish skip . |
| 2 | This was in the foothills of the Mournes , whence he had been sent to take a photograph of bees and beekeeping . |
| 3 | A letter had been sent to remind the authority . |
| 4 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 5 | The child had been sent to fetch the doctor for a sick neighbour , and was on her way home again . |
| 6 | But the Russian air force press centre in Moscow said Maj Shipko 's plane and another SU-27 had been sent to prevent an attack on a paratroop base near the rebel capital of Gudauta , about 20 miles north of the frontline . |
| 7 | On Sept. 30 , 120 more monitors had been sent to cover the situation on the Hungarian border and in Bosnia-Hercegovina , bringing their total to 200 . |