Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be sent to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Of course I was sent to bed without any supper .
2 As a result he was sent to Arles , where he came into contact with the rhetorician Julianus Pomerius .
3 Our assemblies continue with the true story of Nicky Cruz , the young Puerto Rican boy who is sent to New York by his family and then runs away .
4 A particularly difficult situation arises in the case of a girl who is sent to hospital in need of a therapeutic abortion and refuses point blank to enter the hospital unless a guarantee is given that her parents shall not be told about it .
5 If you had a stomach upset you were sent to Mrs. Sutton who sold you a powder for tuppence .
6 But when the judge does n't ask you to plead , and you 're not guilty , you 're treated like a person who 's sent to prison for a crime that she has n't committed .
7 The next week we were sent to Leicestershire .
8 After three glorious years in the sunshine I was sent to Holland where I remained until I joined AIB in 1955 as a Senior Inspector of Accidents ( Operations ) .
9 While he was imprisoned in 1534 he was working on a map of the Holy Land which was sent to Cromwell 's confidant , Rowland Lee [ q.v. ] , in an attempt to secure his release .
10 This time they were sent to Alfred Bowles of Ipswich and bear the inscription " Alfred made me and hung us all " .
11 In the course of time he was sent to Cornwall to educate the Ack-Ack regiments ( and to examine the Cornish churches ) but the sudden onset of a mysterious and debilitating illness ( which later proved to be high blood-pressure ) led to his being discharged as being unfit for service .
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