Example sentences of "sent [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They deliberately sent me on a wild goose chase . |
| 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 | He sent me to a Jesuit boarding school . |
| 4 | Undismayed , she sent me to a first-class crammer for two terms , and Brian to another preparatory school . |
| 5 | The day after I finished working for the managing director of a certain company fighting off a take-over bid , the agency sent me to the rival company . ’ |
| 6 | So the sent me to the er eye infirmary and of course the eye infirmary sent me to the blind school . |
| 7 | What sent me into a fear-filled frenzy was the news — hidden somewhere between a report on the seasonal suicide rate and an article on bogus Santas — that I had bought a ride-on fire engine for my baby son that had a dangerous fault and should be returned to the manufacturers immediately . |
| 8 | He sent them to a famous anthropologist at the university , who gave them to the library . |
| 9 | I can not trace any acknowledgment from you of the memorandum I sent you on the twelfth of this month , regarding your talents and the scope for them in this office . |
| 10 | In May 1928 the League sent her on a three-month visit to China to study the status of women . |
| 11 | When he finally divorced Catherine , he sent her to a damp , draughty cottage in the hope that she would die of pleurisy . |
| 12 | After a period , the home evicted the woman , put her in a taxi and sent her to the local police station . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She was not at the inn , not in the meadows , and when he finally found a sufficiently oblique way to ask where she might be , his misreading of the directions sent him along the wrong path past the wrong waterfall and up the surprisingly taxing slope of the wrong fell . |
| 15 | Normally this was Beth 's favourite time … when her son was lying sleepy in his bed and she would read him a story about creatures and little people ; gentle stories that soon sent him into a peaceful slumber . |
| 16 | But a new administration in 1807 sent him on a futile mission to conciliate Denmark , following the British bombardment of Copenhagen . |
| 17 | The department sent him on an Assertive Course . |
| 18 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 19 | After he had been withdrawn or expelled from St John 's College , Grace sent him to the local government school , Highlands North . |
| 20 | He saved too the note she sent requesting ‘ Big choc. cake , ginger biscuits , Twiglets ’ just as he has kept the clipping she sent him from the Daily Telegraph about academic failures who become gifted and successful later in life . |
| 21 | The Bill was then printed with the Committee 's revisions , and considered by a Committee of the whole House on 13th July , who sent it for a Third Reading . |
| 22 | The second , does anyone want to say any about that ? it 's just that they probably sent it to the appropriate people . |
| 23 | He also sent it to the Royal Academy 's Summer Exhibition in 1955 together with his portrait of Elroy Josephs and another pastiche , Coriolanus ( Colour Plate XXI ) , based on a Signorelli in the National Gallery . |