Example sentences of "send [pers pn] up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It used to be regarded as a premium fuel for domestic and commercial use , now we just send it up the chimneys of power stations . |
| 2 | Great-aunts were sometimes significant : a Scots farmer 's old sister , ‘ very straightlaced … you sat like a mouse ; ’ or the great-aunt of a Portsmouth docker 's daughter , ‘ an old , old lady ’ , who liked to celebrate receiving her weekly pension — ‘ Every weekend , pension day , she had a wee brown jug and she used to send me up the beer shop to get half pint o'stout . |
| 3 | He said erm I shall ha I 'll have to send you up the hospital and you 'll have to have a you know |
| 4 | It was that phone call that sent me up the cul-de-sac . |
| 5 | He wrote not one memo about it but , by his estimate , as many as five , and sent them up the line . |
| 6 | At the end of January Pop decided to go south to our villages , and sent us up the Irrawaddy to Maymyo . |