Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] send [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had that and my mum sent me to ballet classes |
| 2 | A Cornish miner later recalled of his late-eighteenth-century childhood : When I was eight years old my parents sent me to a raiding school kept by a poor owld man called Stephen Martin . |
| 3 | ‘ My aunt sent me with an invitation for Silas to visit her . |
| 4 | For my part , I pestered , lobbied and cajoled to get my bosses to send me over here . |
| 5 | My mother sent it from London and it was just a bit too big . |
| 6 | Staff there standby their decision to send him to Springhill |
| 7 | It had been their intention to send her to a finishing school in France or Germany , but she had begged so hard to be allowed to stay where she was , with Breeze and Gay . |
| 8 | At the chilly boarding-school to which her parents sent her in the mistaken belief that she would be less lonely among girls of her own age , the prizes for mathematics — a subject which she did n't particularly care for but which came easily to her — were framed reproductions of the works of Italian painters . |
| 9 | If he had not been halfway to sleep he would have noticed that far from washing the make-up from her face she had taken the trouble to apply the eye shadow and lip-stick that her mother sent her from Moscow . |
| 10 | His blow sends me to my right , and I slide with it , fast , and dive away to the floor . |
| 11 | Even though he had a job to go to with Birmingham Repertory Company , his agent sent him to the Rank interview for the experience . |
| 12 | His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis . |
| 13 | His father sent him after an owd man somewhere to come hoom ; and he had an owd pony . |
| 14 | His firm sent him for a month to another part of the country , and at first he telephoned home every night ; but three weeks later she got a letter saying that he had met another woman and was planning to marry her as soon as possible . |
| 15 | After a robust game of rugby football in London — although his sight had never been excellent — his family sent him to his grandmother 's up here to give him some rest . |
| 16 | ‘ Our new steamer at Linthouse … the launching your husband sent me to … the Daphne ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's just that I doubt that your grandmother sent you after me with instructions to — to abduct me and drag me to Rome at any cost . ’ |