Example sentences of "[was/were] sent [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men who only went into a shop for ‘ baccy ’ , matches or a paper , were sent round to the local grocer 's and butcher 's shops to buy up everything that was n't nailed down . |
| 2 | The unfortunates were sent over to the other building from which they would ring clients who owed money , and would demand of them immediate payment . |
| 3 | This frank proposal for unparliamentary taxation was accepted by the King , and orders were sent out to the appointed commissioners in January . |
| 4 | The first set in each pair were sent out to the participating schools in October and November 1985 , and the second parallel set in February 1986 . |
| 5 | This telegram was sent on to the Prime Minister 's office in London and on 29 April Winston Churchill ruled [ HP 41 ] that all anti-partisans ( including by inference " Croats " and " Slovenian White Guards " who were mentioned to Churchill in an accompanying minute by Sir Orme Sargent ) should , as Stevenson urged , " be disarmed and placed in refugee camps " . |
| 6 | Likewise , Minton 's huge harbour scene , returned from the Lefevre , was sent off to the Royal Academy 's 1949 Summer Exhibition where it attracted the ridicule of Sir Alfred Munnings . |
| 7 | As priyayi he obtained an education in a Teachers ' Training School and was sent off to the little island of Bali . |