Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] sent to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assuming this to reflect common-sense rationality , it follows that there are three types of sanctions which prey on the minds of thoughtful officials contemplating the commission of corporate crime : ( i ) legal sanctions , and especially ‘ will I be sent to prison ? ’ ; ( ii ) occupational sanctions and especially ‘ will my job be lost or my promotional chances endangered ? ’ ; ( iii ) social sanctions — ‘ will I be rejected by family , friends , and acquaintances and required to resign from the country club ? ’ |
| 2 | I was sent to Bedford in Bedfordshire . |
| 3 | After three glorious years in the sunshine I was sent to Holland where I remained until I joined AIB in 1955 as a Senior Inspector of Accidents ( Operations ) . |
| 4 | and I was sent to Margate with my Mum . |
| 5 | His marriage , which had been arranged by his family , was n't a success , and , following a Diomede tradition , I was sent to England for my schooling . ’ |
| 6 | The truth is that I was sent to Scotland to find out what happened , is happening and might happen . ’ |
| 7 | I was perfectly happy until I was sent to school at the age of five . |
| 8 | I was sent to school here , so I must learn as much as I can . ’ |
| 9 | Of course I was sent to bed without any supper . |
| 10 | In fact , I was sent to bed as a punishment . |
| 11 | At 13 , I was sent to Dovercourt camp , which I remember with affection because it was my first home after leaving my family in Germany . |
| 12 | The third offence , that was after the immigration problems , I was sent to prison . |
| 13 | I was sent to prison for five weeks . |
| 14 | It was not thought too good at one time , so I was sent to Slough General Hospital for an X-Ray . |
| 15 | After fighting with the 8th Army at El Alamein I was sent to Leros via Palestine . |
| 16 | ‘ I was sent to Australia , you know , because I escaped from the prison-ship . |
| 17 | I was sent to Holloway prison . |
| 18 | Erm I had expressed a preference for the Navy , so I was sent to Plymouth , to join the Devonshire regiment , at Mill Bay docks , which was a an infantry regiment and machine gun core regiment . |
| 19 | If you are sent to prison for up to six months , you have to wait seven years ; a fine is wiped clean after five years and probation or conditional discharge takes one year . |
| 20 | But er this is how they they wanted the work done and it was n't a question of one man had to learn the lot you just had to do work away where you were sent to work . |
| 21 | If you had a stomach upset you were sent to Mrs. Sutton who sold you a powder for tuppence . |
| 22 | ‘ I believe you gave that to the priest at Tracy for safekeeping when you were sent to Gloucester . |
| 23 | He came to see her father and advised that she be sent to relatives in Cork and kept there till the danger to her immortal soul was past . |
| 24 | Bearing witness in Great Torrington she was sent to Exeter prison , long detained before trial , and finally ‘ Whipt till the Blood ran down my back ’ . |
| 25 | Mossy Rooney , a man who , though he spoke little , noticed a lot , saw the look of relief pass over Benny Hogan 's face , as she was sent to bed with a hot-water bottle and a cup of hot milk . |
| 26 | Doctors seemed to be coming and going all morning , so it was n't until she was sent to coffee that Juliet had time to think of her mother . |
| 27 | The instigators of the revolt were Hugh and Matfrid , the dis-honoured of 828 : it was Pippin they turned to first ; and when Charles 's mother Judith was taken from her husband 's side , and accused of adultery with Bernard , she was sent to custody in Aquitaine , at Ste-Croix , Poitiers . |
| 28 | We are sent to Westminster to exercise our judgement on their behalf . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Then we were sent to Moscow and the roof fell in . |
| 30 | The next week we were sent to Leicestershire . |