Example sentences of "[vb past] send him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He commiserated with Blair over his failure with certain seeds and promised to send him rare plants . |
| 2 | ‘ They ’ tried to send him to music lessons but he preferred to sit and copy an uncle who played boogie-woogie . |
| 3 | At lunchtime Desmond had n't been able to place his usual bets because she 'd sent him haring back to the digs to see if an urgent letter had arrived . |
| 4 | Promotion at Maidstone was never to be his ; instead they 'd sent him back to Ramsgate , scene of his early success in capturing the notorious smuggler Rum-Bubber Bill . |
| 5 | You 'd sent him upstairs to make some sort of excuse to Nicky Kai ? |
| 6 | And when she 'd got the same blank response to two further letters she 'd sent him , Laura had sorrowfully realised that her marriage was indeed at an end . |
| 7 | He had returned her stare and she 'd sent him one of her brilliant , flashing smiles , but his features had remained completely impassive . |
| 8 | Before long many people from far and wide had heard about his successes , and doctors and specialists began to send him some of their patients . |
| 9 | He eventually left after Sherrin agreed to send him a script . |
| 10 | Readers started to send him examples of leys in their own districts and , as a result of their enthusiasm , the Straight Track Club was formed in 1926 . |
| 11 | it was at this crisis point that the tour management decided to send him back to school — to Alf Gover 's famous establishment for an intensive three-day course . |
| 12 | ‘ Sometimes , he would lose his temper and start breaking the furniture ; and his family decided to send him to the maison de santé at Gheel . |
| 13 | But publishers decided to send him off after circulation , once 200,000 , fell to 30,000 . |
| 14 | Out of the corner of my eye I noticed how the prioress kept sending him frowning glances at being ignored , interspersed with coy smiles in an attempt to provoke him into some loving conspiracy about the events of the previous night . |
| 15 | This left my father 's parents badly off , but they managed to send him to Oxford , where he studied medicine . |
| 16 | a boys ' school and the headmaster there advised me not to put him there , he said send him to Newport Grammar school it 's the best school in Essex , best grammar school in Essex and he said that my two boys go there |
| 17 | All she knew of self and love she knew through Fenna , and now she had to send him away . |
| 18 | I had to send him away . ’ |
| 19 | Monica took the call , said to send him up right away , put down the receiver , looked at Tweed . |
| 20 | It is therefore difficult for him to appreciate the general view of the Service , that , on his return … he must re-establish his professional standing , even though a few years earlier the Service had sent him to University because he had proved himself to be a good , practical policeman . |
| 21 | According to Noel Stock 's Life , Pound first met Binyon in the second week of February 1909 , and early in March he found ‘ intensely interesting ’ a lecture by Binyon on European and Oriental art , for which the lecturer had sent him a ticket . |
| 22 | But Noble was in the last week of his life , and proved too ill to see his favourite pupil or to hear read the letter of sympathy and comfort which Edward had sent him . |
| 23 | He was shaking from the shock of the recoil of the gun , which had sent him flying backwards . |
| 24 | By the time he did , her new book was out and her publishers had sent him an advance copy . |
| 25 | Nigel 's mother had sent him some After Eights so he offered Eleanor one . |
| 26 | Someone had sent him a jacket almost exactly like the ones the famous bomber pilots all wore during the war . |
| 27 | His mother had drunk too much stout , ‘ gone up the school ’ , and had him transferred from metal work to Latin , from Civic Studies to French ; she had paid a maths coach with the earnings of a paper-round she had sent him out on . |
| 28 | Then he called for the caskets of gold in which was the balsam and the myrrh which the Soldan of Persia had sent him ; and when these were put before him he bade them bring him the golden cup , of which he was wont to drink ; and he took of that balsam and of that myrrh as much as a little spoon-full , and mingled it in the cup with rose-water and drank of it ; and for the seven days which he lived he neither ate nor drank aught else than a little of that myrrh and balsam mingled with water . |
| 29 | They had sent him home to do two years in a military prison and his dark oily skin had suffered while inside . |
| 30 | His parents had sent him to Oslo immediately after Hitler 's annexation of Austria , when he was only nine . |