Example sentences of "[noun prp] sent [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry said his Aunt Erica sent good wishes , his eyes ironic . |
| 2 | Soon after the explosion the PLO headquarters in Tunis sent two officials to assist the Greek authorities with their investigations . |
| 3 | Edward sent certain earls , barons and other councillors to put before convocation the charges against the Despensers and to enjoin the clergy on their fealty to advise him whether the banishment did violate his coronation oath . |
| 4 | By the end of 1341 Charles of Blois 's forces had overrun most of the duchy and accordingly in 1342 Edward sent three expeditions to help his ally de Montfort . |
| 5 | The United States sent millions of cigarettes . |
| 6 | Du Bois still presided , but the United States sent few other delegates . |
| 7 | Corn imports were already exceeding 1.5 million quarters by 1700 , while Faversham sent 353 ships in 1728 loaded with the hops and malting barley to be brewed with Newcastle coal . |
| 8 | But finally President Gorbachev sent two children , one of whom , Yalya Butko , aged eight , got an award . |
| 9 | Thorfinn sent Tuathal to sleep for ten minutes and , when he returned , dropped in his place on the bare earth of an old wattle barn , asleep before he stopped moving . |
| 10 | The Misses Wynne sent two other ladies , rather considerably older than themselves , with a heavy recommendation and they in turn sent a widow and her daughter . |
| 11 | Brent Sadler sent this report from Israel on Sunday . |
| 12 | Ken Rees sent this report from the United States on Wednesday . |
| 13 | Columba sent one of his companions into the water , and just as the creature opened its jaws for its second course , Columba with a wave of his hand banished it : Nessie , all humps and coils , fled whining . |
| 14 | His version of the ‘ reality ’ of what happened is that : ‘ In 499 BC Athens sent half her fleet to help the Ionians fight the Persians . |
| 15 | He did , however , ask to see and approve the proposed wording , and on 30 December sent some comments on the proofs accompanied by a brisk command to ‘ get this sorted out and cleared as soon as possible ’ . |
| 16 | On 19th August , 1856 , Hall sent identical letters to Clarendon and Panmure , saying that he had directed Hunt to prepare the instructions for the competition , and asked the Secretaries of State to appoint a representative from each of their departments to give Hunt the ‘ extent and kind of accommodation required ’ . |
| 17 | After an early fright , when Hone half-volleyed a good chance high for Welling , Senior had a header saved well by Barron , Payne sent another over and Gilkes , Reading 's most dangerous player , was just too high with a powerful shot . |
| 18 | Both the US and the USSR sent naval forces to manoeuvre about the Indian Ocean and both sought bases on the South Arabian coast . |
| 19 | The Moscow meeting was attended by heads of government from six CIS member states , while Russia , Byelarus , Tajikistan and Turkmenistan sent plenipotentiary representatives , and Azerbaijan sent a non-plenipotentiary representative . |
| 20 | A Mr Dixon sent five guineas . |
| 21 | Around this time George Wilson sent 40 tons to Swansea paying the estate agent Jackson £16 : 16s. — his one-twelfth . |
| 22 | The main bridge between the two was the Council of 500 members , appointed annually from the demes in proportion to their population — so for instance Eleusis was allowed to send eleven councillors to the city , and the great deme of Acharnai sent twenty-two , while some tiny demes like Pambotadai and Syhridai took it in turn to send a single councillor , each sending one every other year . |
| 23 | Tukaram sent this message to him . |
| 24 | Ian Glover-James sent this report from Berlin on Monday . |
| 25 | I suppose the most damaging and erroneous of the myths is the belief , and disdain , held in Australia and New Zealand that the Mother Country sent weedy wrecks to fight alongside hefty , bronzed , open-air Gods of Nature , or , even worse , sat about ‘ drinking tea ’ . |
| 26 | Additionally Zaïre sent some 1,000 troops under a mutual defence agreement with Rwanda ( these were withdrawn on Oct. 17 ) . |
| 27 | Between 1717 and 1734 Dale sent nineteen of his pupils to St. John 's College , Cambridge , and two others to Trinity . |
| 28 | The freedom riders met with violence in Alabama , and Attorney-General Robert Kennedy sent Federal marshals for their protection . |
| 29 | In 1914 only the United Kingdom sent more of its manufactures to non-European nations than to European ; yet she was also Germany 's best customer , and Germany came second only to India as a buyer of British goods . |
| 30 | The schnapps was poured , the glasses dispensed , and Frau Schmidt sent simpering back to the kitchen . |