Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] send [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think if he 'd been sent into hospital earlier he would n't have been in such a |
| 2 | Digging might not be classed as essential training , but he 'd been sent on attachment to learn all about real soldiering . |
| 3 | He 'd been ordered to report to the Ministry by his Adjutant , and either there had been some colossal mistake or he 'd been sent for under false pretences . |
| 4 | ‘ I was expecting a relief nurse to arrive , and the doctor who 'd been sent for . |
| 5 | ‘ He 'd been sent to a friend of mine to be sold , but he was a little bit difficult to place . |
| 6 | She even managed to convince the man that she 'd been sent by Roman to inspect the goods . |
| 7 | But if she 'd been frank from the outset and had admitted to him that she 'd been sent by his stepmother with the plea for him to visit her the result would have been short and sharp . |
| 8 | Second , there are often two different passives available when a sentence has a sequence noun + adjective following the verb ; for instance , the fourth example of the previous set can be linked either to ( 4 ) or to ( 5 ) : ( 4 ) the packages registered were sent by our lawyer ( 5 ) the packages were sent registered by our lawyer It is intuitively obvious that ( 4 ) corresponds to the postnominal attributive interpretation of ( 3 ) ( c ) , but ( 5 ) to the other intensional pattern introduced here . |
| 9 | Although Mr Smith would also win widespread support from MPs and constituency parties , the Conservatives could argue that Mr Kinnock 's replacement had been sent on his way by the union barons . |
| 10 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on . |
| 11 | Mr Parry said that his client had been unemployed for 13 years , unbelievably he had been sent on a computer course to Wrexham , and he could not even switch the computer on.A 17-year-old youth made a remark and the offence was committed . |
| 12 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 13 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |
| 14 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 15 | Pearce v Foster indicated why it was that if the original affidavit or a copy made by the employee had been sent to the solicitors , that would not have been privileged from disclosure by the first and second defendants , although sent to the solicitors for the purpose of advising them on their position against the employee . |
| 16 | Sinn Fein said 49 such photographs had been sent to its office in Monaghan in the Irish Republic . |
| 17 | Sinn Fein said a further 49 photographs had been sent to its office in Monaghan in the Irish Republic . |
| 18 | After the catalogue had been sent to the printer , Sotheby 's asked the Oxford Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art to try thermoluminescent dating on two pieces . |
| 19 | With forty picked men he was given special powers ; 228 wagons were needed , but only thirty had been sent to Siberia . |
| 20 | Both the latter films were made by Walter Booth for Charles Urban , an American who had been sent to Britain in order to look after Edison 's interests , then set up on his own as a distributor and exporter of French and American films . |
| 21 | Mr Dale Campbell-Savours , Labour MP for Workington , claims that the leak inquiry , which followed publication of parts of the report in a special edition of the Observer , discovered that copy 26 had been sent to the paper 's owners , Lonrho . |
| 22 | President George Bush said yesterday that a special US anti-terrorist team had been sent to El Salvador on Tuesday but had not been involved in ending the siege . |
| 23 | His trained pet poodle who had been sent to Europe to reconnoitre the scene and steal Mark 's clothes . |
| 24 | St Paul had been sent to Rome a prisoner , and suffered eventual execution . |
| 25 | When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward . |
| 26 | The finders of this bombshell were two Justice Department officials , Brad Reynolds and John Richardson , who had been sent to North 's office to look through papers relating to the shipments to Iran . |
| 27 | The local Garda had been sent to Ashford Castle to protect Reagan , and they did n't get on with the CIA at all . |
| 28 | Well , I have practised yoga for many years , but then I met a Jesuit priest who had been sent to the Far East by the Catholic Church to experience the Buddhist way and see how it might relate to Catholic worship . |
| 29 | At an informal level , they had not wholly lacked it before ; £3000 had been sent to them in August 1559 , and in January the English Admiral Winter had appeared in the forth , officially searching for pirates but actually cutting the French troops ' line of communication between their strongholds in Fife and Leith . |
| 30 | The jews in the countryside had been rounded up , with the active and sometimes enthusiastic support of the Hungarian authorities , and most had been sent to Auschwitz . |