Example sentences of "they send [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they send me to Rampton , what does that make me ? ’ ’ |
| 2 | Sent they send it to Elizabeth . |
| 3 | They persecute us , they crowd us out , they send us to Coventry , they sneer at us , they yawn at us , they blindfold themselves and stuff up their ears . |
| 4 | They sent her to London for elocution lessons and she grew into a lovely young lady . |
| 5 | I did n't know what career I wanted which baffled the system so they sent me to Edinburgh for a year . |
| 6 | So they sent me to Morbry 's Lane Wharf , Colliery Wharf . |
| 7 | That 's why they sent me to school — cos I 'm handicapped . |
| 8 | ‘ Then it 's a good job I spent time with the Soviet Embassy in Stockholm before they sent me to Washington . |
| 9 | And then gradually and then when I got to Donnington I had to go , I use to go to Litchfield you see , to examination , then when I got to Donnington they sent me to Shrewsbury . |
| 10 | They sent me to Holloway and then to Styal . |
| 11 | And of course not long after that erm I was took ill and er I er had to have the doctor and they sent me to hospital . |
| 12 | They sent me to Cambridge for a couple of terms — that 's where I first realized I must run — I do n't want to blaspheme about one of your famous institutions so I sha n't tell you the name of my college though you 're longing to know — the girls in their bed-sitters , the cocoa-drinking , the tittle-tattle , the atmosphere of heartiness or domesticity in the combination-room — But , my dear , it must be getting late and here I am telling you things that you know as well as I do . ’ |
| 13 | I was there for another month , then they sent me to Bullwood Hall . |
| 14 | ‘ The crime they sent me to prison for ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ They sent me to prison for trying to free my country . |
| 16 | Faced with a young man with two Engineering degrees and A-level German , they sent him to Germany to build and to test experimental airfields , to join the Officers ' Mess at Cologne , and to sample continental culture . |
| 17 | In 1869 they sent him to Peru to supervise running two of their steam ploughs , and there he remained for thirteen years , soon finding scope for his natural business acumen . |
| 18 | ‘ They sent him to Australia for life , because he tried to escape from the prison-ship . ’ |
| 19 | people to prison , they sent them into exile . |
| 20 | And their odd jobs , they 'd probably got men in their own factory to do it , but no they sent them to Dick and I er used to oblige . |
| 21 | if you did n't do what they wanted to do they did , they did you in , they sent you to Belsen |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps you think the crime they sent you to prison for makes you unworthy of God 's mercy . |
| 23 | I 'm surprised they sent it by courier , he said he was going to drop them in , mind , there 's another one , a big one to come , this is only a small one . |