Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] be send to " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 With two daughters of her own , Greta expanded her family by taking in the son of a German socialist who had been sent to a concentration camp , and a Viennese boy who adopted her name by deed poll .
3 And he always seemed to be campaigning vigorously and futilely for some boy or other who had been sent to borstal for a criminal offence .
4 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 .
5 His trained pet poodle who had been sent to Europe to reconnoitre the scene and steal Mark 's clothes .
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