Example sentences of "[pron] be be sent to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found I was being sent to some ghastly hole , miles from civilisation , on top of the Lincolnshire wolds , and as I trekked sullenly north , little did I know how the course of my life was about to be permanently changed . |
| 2 | Bowled over by the originality and assurance of Joyce 's Ulysses , which was being sent to him by the author in typescript section by section , Pound was between 1920 and 1922 dismantling the several hundred lines of The Cantos that he had written and published , and recasting them radically , using some of the same material but trying for a less personalized presentation . |
| 3 | He reports that the harvest had been very abundant but mentions nothing but potatoes , the surplus of which was being sent to the south , the earlies at £5 per ton which after deducting freight etc. leaves the farmer about £4–5–0 ; rocks were £4 per ton . |
| 4 | ‘ To hear you talk , anyone would think you were being sent to prison ! ’ |
| 5 | It is still more usual for the husband 's name to come first when signing Christmas cards , eg John and Jane rather than Jane and John , and the surname should be added if they are being sent to slight acquaintances . |
| 6 | The fuel rods were originally destined for the now-defunct nuclear reactor at Kalka ; they are being sent to the UK for storage because it is cheaper . |
| 7 | They 're being sent to a village house which has become the centre of a sophisticated operation ferrying out thousands of parcels to Dubrovnik.Mike Rowbottom reports . |
| 8 | They 're being sent to Norway cos they are , they are |
| 9 | He was to be classified as a Soviet citizen , he was being sent to the Correctional Labour Colonies … |
| 10 | Rumour became reality when my father received a cold , official letter telling him that he was being sent to a place called Fontanellato . |