Example sentences of "[noun sg] who have [be] sent " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With two daughters of her own , Greta expanded her family by taking in the son of a German socialist who had been sent to a concentration camp , and a Viennese boy who adopted her name by deed poll . |
| 3 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 4 | It enthusiastically supported Stambouloff in opposing a Russian who had been sent to rule them . |
| 5 | She had changed into some clothes brought for her by a clerk who had been sent out with a handful of roubles to a nearby shop . |
| 6 | And he always seemed to be campaigning vigorously and futilely for some boy or other who had been sent to borstal for a criminal offence . |
| 7 | Gusev deduced that Volkov was in love with a woman who 'd been sent to entrap him for political purposes , so Gusev deduced . |
| 8 | What do I say when I visit an old Cockney lady with a fractured leg who has been sent home because the orthopaedic surgeons need her bed for the daily influx of trauma , but who ca n't stand unaided and who lives alone ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I was expecting a relief nurse to arrive , and the doctor who 'd been sent for . |
| 11 | His trained pet poodle who had been sent to Europe to reconnoitre the scene and steal Mark 's clothes . |