Example sentences of "[noun sg] was sent to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In America a journalist was sent to prison for refusing to disclose information which could have revealed the innocence of a person on trial , but prison would not normally be an option in a civil case . |
| 2 | The tragedy was sent to London , apparently to Colley Cibber , for a reading . |
| 3 | At the end of a visit by a meeting of the International Association of Quaternary Research to the region in 1965 , a telegram was sent to Professor Bretz which concluded : " We are now all catastrophists " . |
| 4 | A petition calling for action was sent to Middlesbrough Council seven years ago . |
| 5 | A letter requesting help was sent to Ringway , near Manchester , where airborne troops in Britain were trained , but no reply was received . |
| 6 | General Monk , in the spring of 1660 , led a bloodless coup and declared that Charles II should become King , so a warship was sent to Holland to fetch him back to England , where he arrived before the end of May , aged 30 years , and was received rapturously in London . |
| 7 | A copy of his plan was sent to Spain on the very day , 14 April 1762 , that he replied encouragingly to a British approach about opening negotiations to end the war . |
| 8 | The plan was sent to London for consideration by MI6 and the CIA in December 1953 . |
| 9 | A three-person UN team was sent to Moldova on June 27 to investigate the situation . |
| 10 | The executed legal charge was sent to Warrens to be held , in escrow , pending completion . |
| 11 | The upshot was that Lothar was sent to Italy , " never to leave it unless on his father 's orders " . |
| 12 | The minute was sent to members of a Whitehall committee which included Chancellor Major . |
| 13 | The impressive document issued in Beaver County , Pennsylvania the first passed outside the U.S. by the authority was sent to Darlington Mayor Coun Rita Fishwick , who passed it on to Dew . |
| 14 | My father was sent to hell-fire on the sixth of Rabi ! ’ |
| 15 | They lived in a house in the Terrace , and eventually my father was sent to Ampleforth in Yorkshire , a Benedictine monastery which also ran a boarding school . |
| 16 | A Kazakh government commission was sent to Leninsk , and gave all conscripts 10 days ' leave and extra food and cigarettes . |
| 17 | Much to the disapproval of the majority of the congregation at this time , a petition was sent to Queen Victoria , and eventually Lowe was dismissed by Lord Palmerston , but he was still supported by the Bishop of London who had issued his licence . |
| 18 | A copy notice was sent to Winchester because they were a person referred to in it : see rule 7.3(12) . |
| 19 | A WOMAN was sent to Broadmoor indefinitely yesterday for an occult killing . |
| 20 | On 2 November , a second signal was sent to Kabrit from Kufra : ‘ Sillito and Laird arriving Cairo by plane 1530 3rd November , both very ill . |
| 21 | A launch was sent to Rhodes to whisk fever victim Michael , an RAF mechanic , into the aircraft carrier Saratoga 's hospital . |
| 22 | Possible underascertainment has been carefully analysed , and a questionnaire was sent to parents , or those affected were invited with their families for a personal examination to check the diagnoses and to obtain necessary data . |
| 23 | Although then 70-years-old , the old man was sent to prison and forced to endure re-educative hard labour and constant self-criticism for several years , and by the time he returned home his despairing wife had already committed suicide . |
| 24 | It was decided to recall Blake to London in a manner that would not arouse his suspicions so a message was sent to Nicholas Elliott , chief of MI6 in Beirut , who got in touch with Blake and said that London would like to discuss a chance of promotion and a new job with him . |
| 25 | We may also note that , when this message was sent to MACMIS in the afternoon of 15 May , AFHQ was under the impression that 5 Corps had already taken surrender of the 200,000 Croats , which was why Tito was being asked to " instruct his commander to accept them " . |
| 26 | The airliner passed the information to controllers at West Drayton and an RAF rescue Wessex helicopter was sent to Snowdon . |
| 27 | This warning was sent to persons involved in the building of a workhouse at Tattingstone in Suffolk in 1765 . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , a ship was sent to America so that the story could be checked and in 1810 , three years after his being cast away on Sombrero , Jeffrey returned at last and set foot in Portsmouth . |
| 29 | The Marquess was sent to Pentonville prison on Tuesday for failing to obey a High Court order to pay arrears of £10,534 to his estranged wife Becky and their son George . |
| 30 | A letter containing information about the new unit specification was sent to heads of centres in November . |