Example sentences of "sent [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A typical story is of a youngster who has a syncopal episode while running across the school playground and is then sent for a neurological evaluation to exclude a seizure disorder . |
| 2 | Michelle was the only one on duty there , but she put down the latest James Herbert long enough to tell me that yes , they had sent for an Airborne messenger just after eleven , and that Anna kept asking if I 'd called . |
| 3 | In the end , the mother had sent for an old lady from the Isle of Anglesey , thought to be a witch . |
| 4 | At the age of fourteen he was sent as a private pupil to the Revd Alfred North , who ran a small school for dissenters in Oundle , and he spent two years pursuing classical studies there . |
| 5 | It is worth noting that when James Wolfe was sent as a young officer to restore order in the troubled clothing districts of the West Country , his sympathies rapidly shifted to the side of the weavers . |
| 6 | One grandmother had been the orphan daughter of a silk merchant , ‘ taken into care ’ and sent as a young woman into service . |
| 7 | In 1773 Scott was sent as a sickly child to stay with his grandparents at Sandyknowe farm , below the rocky plinth from which rises a fortalice with sturdy walls and gun-loops . |
| 8 | At 1915 hrs that night , 5 Corps therefore sent off a further plea to Eighth Army [ KP 229 ] to get the authorization they required ( despite Gen Morgan 's personal message to Gen McCreery the previous day that force was not , repeat not , to be used " ) : |
| 9 | The case notes from all patients were reviewed and a follow up questionnaire was sent after a mean period of four years to those 72 still alive , of which 56 replied . |
| 10 | How in another experiment a scientist was sent into a black hole and was supposedly killed by the force of the explosion . |
| 11 | The decision was made after councillors watched a video of a fox being mauled by a terrier that had been sent into a flooded drain to catch it . |
| 12 | At its most basic , the message sent from a small dashboard display would give information about the make and model of car , its registration number and position — but there 's no reason why it could n't also relate that the driver was a woman alone or a disabled person . |
| 13 | The pulse-receiver would have been no larger than a matchbox , probably receiving on something like 72.15 megahertz a signal sent from a small transmitter . |
| 14 | He also advised that seeds be sent in a vegetating condition , packed in layers of damp sphagnum moss . |
| 15 | On twenty minutes Dyer stormed down the left wing and sent in a perfect cross . |
| 16 | Glenda McKee shook off Gillian Dawson as she tried to climb all over her , got to the by-line , and sent in a superb cross which Judith Chapman duly despatched into the net . |
| 17 | The information is sent on a regular TV signal and occupies the vertical blanking-portion . |
| 18 | MANY of County Durham 's buses should be sent on a one-way trip to a wrecker 's yard , according to a report from transport chiefs . |
| 19 | If necessary , such a person could then be sent on a suitable training course to learn any technical skills which might seem to be appropriate . |
| 20 | In 1847 the ambassador in Vienna was sent on a special mission to the papacy . |
| 21 | An eight-year-old boy from Riseley with a club foot , and another eleven-year-old with serious hip disease , were transferred to an orthopaedic hospital , while the father of the latter , who probably had tuberculosis of the spine , was sent to a convalescent home at Margate with the consent of the governors , who provided the necessary funds . |
| 22 | Then when I was eight years old , I was sent to a co-educational school . |
| 23 | Then there was the resentment over the fur coat she was deprived of because I was sent to a fee-paying school . |
| 24 | If agreement could not be reached with a reporter on disputed material , it would be sent to a joint information bureau in Dhahran , and , if still unresolved , to the US Assistant Secretary of Defence responsible for public affairs . |
| 25 | Being attracted to books dealing with history and legend he soon created an imaginary world of his own , and birds and reptiles provided him with companionship until at the age of nine he was eventually sent to a preparatory school in Dartford . |
| 26 | The survey was based on a postal questionnaire sent to a representative sample of 2,000 members of staff and 200 retired staff . |
| 27 | The mailing will be sent to a small segment in late October , the bulk in early November and to another segment at the end of January . |
| 28 | Alexander spoke such broad Scots that in London he was not understood , and he was sent to a private tutor until he was fifteen , then to University College School . |
| 29 | Little that is definite is known of her early years , except that she was said to have been a backward child ; that she was sent to a private school , Hope House , in Taunton ; that she broke away from the family tradition of Methodism and became an Anglican ; and that she came to the attention of Dorothea Beale [ q.v. ] , and taught at Cheltenham Ladies ' College from 1877 until 1881 . |
| 30 | Stuart had been sent to a private school , his grandparents had paid , so that he was always under an obligation , do n't waste the opportunity , do n't let people down ; not like your father , was the implication . |