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

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1 Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever .
2 Erm I had expressed a preference for the Navy , so I was sent to Plymouth , to join the Devonshire regiment , at Mill Bay docks , which was a an infantry regiment and machine gun core regiment .
3 So we were sent to another hostel .
4 Finally I was sent to a neurological specialist who said it would be necessary to examine the top half of my spinal cord , which houses the motor for the body 's muscles .
5 Finally he was sent to an approved school and then he disappeared from the district .
6 ‘ It seemed quite pointless to hope once I was sent to the farm .
7 Later he was sent to a concentration camp in Germany , where he underwent a lot of suffering and privation , and died on his return to Italy after the war was over .
8 Well I was sent to the erm United , well it was n't a United Reform Church then but it was called the Chapel and I was sent to there , to Sunday School there , mornings and afternoon and we went two by two across to the Chapel , you see , so while my father , we used to walk down the street together .
9 Well one was sent to Mr G
10 It 's Lord Blandford 's second trip to Pentonville … there was a drugs sentence in 1986 … and two years ago he was sent to Oxford prison for driving offences .
11 Eventually he is sent to a liberal English school where his emergence into adulthood converges with an increasing political awareness and realization that it is up to the individual to rake responsibility for altering the world around him .
12 Then we were sent to Moscow and the roof fell in .
13 Then they were sent to the camp at Drancy , and from there they were put on trains and sent to Auschwitz to be gassed .
14 The brass work was cast in the brass foundry , and from there it was sent to the brass finishing shop for machining and cleaning up , afterwards traversing the plating department where it received either venetian bronze , oxidised silver or plain brass lacquer finish , next passing to position No 3 for fixing in the carriage .
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