Example sentences of "sent to a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then when I was eight years old , I was sent to a co-educational school . |
| 3 | Then there was the resentment over the fur coat she was deprived of because I was sent to a fee-paying school . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The survey was based on a postal questionnaire sent to a representative sample of 2,000 members of staff and 200 retired staff . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A 16-year-old girl from Bermondsey , south London , was sent to a young persons ' institution for four months yesterday after being found guilty at Seymour Place juvenile court of causing grievous bodily harm to Francis Ruth Waite , 24 , daughter of Terry Waite , held hostage in Lebanon . |
| 12 | He was sent to a young offenders ' institution for three years . |
| 13 | Paul Dart , 18 , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for four years when he admitted crimes including armed robbery . |
| 14 | Yesterday , Hill , of Gosport , Hants , who admitted manslaughter , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for 2½ years . |
| 15 | Let me quote from last Saturday 's Oxford Mail : ’ A teenager whose night of joyriding ended in the death of a lorry driver , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for two years . |
| 16 | We are often talking about young people who have been through the entire menu of alternatives to imprisonment before they are sent to a young offenders institution , formerly known as a detention centre . |
| 17 | TWO men who used an imitation firearm to carry out a robbery were sent to a young offenders centre at Belfast Crown Court yesterday . |
| 18 | A man who gave the drug LSD to a teenager who later died of an overdose has been sent to a young offenders ' institution for three years . |
| 19 | O ’ Neil was sent to a Young Offenders ' Institute for four years after admitting aggravated burglary and grievous bodily harm . |
| 20 | A TEENAGER who led police on a chase at speeds of up to 90mph through a built-up area was yesterday sent to a young offenders institution for two months . |
| 21 | Stevenson , 20 , of Grendon Walk , Park End , Middlesbrough , was sent to a young offenders ' institution for a total of 21 months and banned from driving for two years . |
| 22 | Hayman , a first offender , was sent to a young offenders institution for three years . |
| 23 | They are also sent to a second system , called the Kmart Information Network ( KIN ) . |
| 24 | When the exhibition finishes on March 7 several items will be sent to a prestigious London venue . |
| 25 | Another copy was sent to a Belgian huissier who delivered it to the Belgian respondent 20 days after the date of the judgment . |
| 26 | Finally I was sent to a neurological specialist who said it would be necessary to examine the top half of my spinal cord , which houses the motor for the body 's muscles . |
| 27 | This does mean though that Blanche has to be sacrificed and so Blanche is sent to a mental asylum . |
| 28 | Should this be accepted , he would escape a mandatory life sentence for each murder and would be sent to a mental hospital , with the prospect of release if the trial judge were to accept a petition that he was no longer mentally ill nor a danger to the public . |
| 29 | A LIVE snake was sent to a disturbed inmate as a ‘ practical joke . ’ |
| 30 | Well , I applied and was accepted , rigged out with clothes , shoes etc and sent to a large country house near Burton on Trent for training . |