Example sentences of "sending [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Indeed , it even handed over several copies of its official stamp to Agrokomerc , so that the notes could be endorsed without the bother of sending them to the bank . |
| 2 | Additionally the ADC-10 can perform many functions that are only currently available on expensive digital storage oscilloscope such as saving waveforms to disk , or sending them to a printer . |
| 3 | Then , calm restored , they went about the business of confiscating the property of Japanese-Americans and sending them to concentration camps . |
| 4 | SunSoft Inc is moving 30 of its software engineers out of its Massachusetts operation and sending them to Sun 's Colorado Springs site where they do R&D , design of high-performance workstations and other special projects . |
| 5 | The courts had a variety of treatment orders available in respect of the children brought before them , including placing children on probation and sending them to attendance or detention centres or to approved schools . |
| 6 | commitment to sending them to college , so we lose one day a week for a start . |
| 7 | Is it not true that giving 17-year-olds fines does not work and sending them to prison is counterproductive ? |
| 8 | Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English . |
| 9 | Their job , he explained , was to quarter Paris and the surrounding towns collecting scientific and industrial hardware from factories and labs , arranging their dismantling and packaging , then sending them to Bordeaux to be transhipped to Britain . |
| 10 | In June too , after an attempt to repel the rebels had failed , and the leaders of the royal force , Sir Humphrey Stafford and William Stafford , had been killed at Sevenoaks , the government had tried to placate the Kentishmen by arresting Crowmer and Say and sending them to the Tower , and when Cade 's men entered London in July , those two were among their earliest victims ( 16 , p.192 ) . |
| 11 | It 's preparing and packing up two complete racing operations and sending them to competitions in Indonesia and New Zealand . |
| 12 | Two and a half years ago the Home Office introduced the Caution scheme , encouraging police to use their discretion to give some young offenders a warning , rather than sending them to court . |
| 13 | Both you and I are much blamed by the " crouner and capitanes " and in truth not without cause , for they say there is no wrong done in Ireland but only that which is done by these men that come from Ila , and Auchinbrecke said to me that he would complain to my Lord of you for sending them at all , except men you have passed and will be answerable for . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's no good building safe ships and sending them on routes away from sensitive areas if they are then inadequately crewed and run by shady , cut-throat operators , ’ said the NUMAST general secretary , John Newman . |
| 15 | With the ground packed to capacity and the home team needing a valuable point to avoid relegation , Dundee played to win , eventually dismantling Saints and sending them into the Second Division . |
| 16 | How would we feel if France started putting its criminals in boats and sending them over the Channel to us ? |
| 17 | Please spare my copies in future by sending them in a pale pink envelope with flowers on . |
| 18 | I know it 's gon na cost sending them by the way . |
| 19 | Well it , it must have been heart trouble the earliest memory I have of that is mother sending me with a neighbour out of Street , a Mrs , to tell my Aunt Lucy which was my dad 's sister , who lived in Street house , house was right opposite their gateway , now Aunt Lucy and there was er her family she w married a fella in and her daughter , her son and me uncle was my dad 's brother , I lived in the house with her , but er I remember tagging this Mrs from the Street down to Street along road and past the hospital , then along Walk and I up in Street , and er tagging Mrs and er Mrs had never met Aunt Lucy and er me Aunt Lucy suffered , what in those days they call it white leg , a woman 's complaint she was bedridden and er when we went in she must have asked why we were there , Mrs was a little bit flabbergasted and I blurted it out oh me dad 's dead , and me Aunt Lucy nearly went into hysterics , so that 's , that 's all I can manage I remember about that . |
| 20 | There had been talk of sending me to a special school , but my family were not ready to accept such an open acknowledgment of my disability , and the excuse was again made about academic standards . |
| 21 | Dear Grandfather , I am very much indebted to you for sending me to school , and especially to my present Teachers , who have greatly contributed to my improvement , but to you is due all the knowledge I possess . |
| 22 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 23 | But days and weeks passed , and Mrs Reed still said nothing about sending me to school . |
| 24 | But he did say that er it 'll take three weeks before he can get back to me about sending me to the Law |
| 25 | ‘ You 're sending me to my lonely bed ? ’ |
| 26 | How if he is sending you with a bait to bring Owen to his death under cover of a parley , as the king 's council urged ? |
| 27 | That 's why I 'm sending you with him to Lisbon . |
| 28 | Do not allow yourself to be pushed around by an agency that tells you they have a large number of suitable vacancies and then persists in sending you for jobs which are not within your specifications . |
| 29 | So you can understand what a sacrifice it is your father is making in sending you to this school . |
| 30 | ‘ And all the money your dad spent sending you to public school , ’ said Constance . |