Example sentences of "to send [pers pn] to " in BNC.
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1 | That 's one reason I do n't want Mr Jackson to send me to Combe Court — they would n't let me keep Satan . |
2 | Despite this , my parents found the wherewithal to send me to a cheap fee-paying dayschool . |
3 | My father was not a rich man , but he was able to send me to Cambridge University , where I studied for three years . |
4 | I heard later from the servants that he had spoken to Mrs Reed about me , and that she had agreed immediately to send me to school . |
5 | After a while I started to get official letters threatening to send me to prison if I did n't find work . |
6 | The Lady Prioress had to sober me up to send me to Woodstock . |
7 | I wish I had someone to send them to . |
8 | The campaign has been given additional clout this weekend , with referees under instruction to dismiss instantly anyone guilty of head-high tackles on or off the ball , and not to send them to the sin-bin where they have gone too often in the past . |
9 | If the French should take them and see them directed to such noted men , they might take care to send them to them . |
10 | The parents of 26 children refused to send them to the designated school and instead made arrangements for tuition to be given to them by , inter alios , a volunteer retired teacher , in rooms above a public house . |
11 | ‘ Well , I 'll get Mum to send them to the Tower then , how about that ? |
12 | When I get them , I should like to send them to you to copy ’ . ) |
13 | Our children will suffer — but not those of rich parents who can afford to send them to public schools . |
14 | Christmas gifts are very much personal gifts in that there is no need to send them to everyone on your lists . |
15 | Besides , there was the sacrifice their parents had made to send them to school . |
16 | ‘ ( 1 ) Whether it is for the buyer to take possession of the goods or for the seller to send them to the buyer is a question depending in each case on the contract , express or implied , between the parties . |
17 | I shall want to send them to the department in Whitechapel Hospital , but I 'm sure they 'll confirm — ’ |
18 | ‘ He kept asking where he could send flowers and whether it would be better to send them to the hospital or to here if she was coming home . ’ |
19 | If I get 100 's of replies I will have to send them to the list anyway . |
20 | Erm I 'm er rising to take the opportunity to sum up the debate er for those of us on this side of the house and to say that on this side of the house we do welcome these orders actually coming through , delayed though they are and er besmirched though they are by the usual examples of government incompetence in failing to send them to the scrutiny committee in the proper manner to allow the usual processes to take place but wi that 's par for the course these days . |
21 | She wants to send them to the same private boarding school as her other partially sighted son , but her local council has refused . |
22 | But it seemed a shame not to send them to people who need shoes . |
23 | ‘ I kept sending the demands back and when I went in I was told not to worry , they had to send them to the last known address . |
24 | We used to send them to Norwich , take them to Norwich prison , with the request that they be fingerprinted . |
25 | But when a stranger was picked up for house breaking or shop breaking or something , a complete stranger , we used to send them to Norwich pending further enquiries , and with a request that they be fingerprinted , and of course they used to fingerprint , send to Scotland Yard , we used to then get the record if they had a record with a photograph , and all their previous convictions . |
26 | In Kuwait , the resistance , we are not trying to kill them , we are trying to destroy their tanks , to destroy their erm bases , to take their weapons , and to bring them to our sides for to send them to Saudi . |
27 | He has asked me to send you to his lodging . |
28 | I 'll ask him not to send you to school . |
29 | If you agree , I 'd like to send you to Oxford . |
30 | I 'd actually prefer to send you to that than go to it myself , because I think that would be a better use of time . |