Example sentences of "[prep] sending [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also necessary formally to sever its links with the Odiham Agricultural Society so , on 19 April 1791 , a letter was sent to the Society , saying that the College would not now persist in the Odiham plan of sending youths to France to be trained . |
| 2 | The conference was also told that as an alternative to the expense of sending officers to university , it was proposed to ‘ direct officers to research a particular problem … and give them a short period to carry out intensive research ’ . |
| 3 | Hopkins 's attitude to the publication of his poetry had always been ambivalent , but his habit of sending copies to Bridges indicates that he did not want them lost . |
| 4 | Mr Van de Kamp , the state attorney-general , who admits to a personal distaste for execution , has responded with a commercial in which he boasts of sending people to death row — while , in the background , the camera dwells on a close-up of the gas chamber . |
| 5 | However , in 1937 Herbert had the idea of sending John to Summerhill , a school in Suffolk which had been founded by A. S. Neill , a teacher famous ( at that time many would have said notorious ) for his views on freedom in education . |
| 6 | Wilshere said that had he been a juror in this case , he would have voted for sending Field to trial ; his conduct had been cruel and brutal in the extreme and ‘ the violence to this poor creature in her diseased and irritable state ’ increased the symptoms and hastened her death . |
| 7 | But the scheme ran into difficulties in the beginning and was criticised for sending solicitors to police stations miles away from their area . |
| 8 | But the scheme ran into difficulties in the beginning and was criticised for sending solicitors to police stations miles away from their area . |
| 9 | A row has also erupted about sending people to Mozambique . |
| 10 | Local groups are organising write-a-thons to encourage the public to participate in sending appeals to governments on behalf of the children . |
| 11 | ‘ Lydia was planning on sending Ari to Amazon House , ’ Leila said . |
| 12 | Thus , far from wanting punishment for young people , between 80 per cent and 90 per cent of Scots supported measures such as ‘ counselling to help offenders with personal problems that may have led them to offend ’ , community service orders and welfare support ‘ as an alternative to sending offenders to court ’ . |
| 13 | Some chairmen expressed their discontent with Citrine 's centralising tendencies , for example , by asking to be released from their turn at occupying one of the four Central Authority seats reserved for them , or by sending deputies to headquarters meetings . |
| 14 | By Aug. 13 , when Mitterrand launched a diplomatic initiative by sending emissaries to Arab and non-aligned countries , the French commitment in the Gulf region included an additional naval cruiser in a total of seven ships and 3,500 men , with heavy transport helicopters and light attack helicopters . |
| 15 | Lupold was never acceptable to the pope ( to whom he remained the bishop of Worms who had transferred himself to Mainz without papal licence ) and when at the end of 1204 Philip saw hope of victory he made a bad move by sending Lupold to Italy . |