Example sentences of "who had be sent to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His trained pet poodle who had been sent to Europe to reconnoitre the scene and steal Mark 's clothes . |
| 3 | The finders of this bombshell were two Justice Department officials , Brad Reynolds and John Richardson , who had been sent to North 's office to look through papers relating to the shipments to Iran . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | No such worries crossed the mind of the Prussian Major who had been sent to Brussels with news of the French advance and details of the Prussian response . |
| 8 | Most noticeable were the ‘ naughty ’ children , the ones who had been sent to be told off , or who in some way had become ‘ cases ’ . |
| 9 | The 50 unarmed UN military observers who had been sent to Mogadishu in July remained in the country , although on Aug. 6 they were reported still to be unable to leave their compound due problems of transport . |
| 10 | Michael White of the Guardian likened Amaranth to Venus rising from the foam , Bruce Anderson to the spirit of enterprise , while Lord Wyatt of Weeford , who had been sent to Brighton for the Telegraph , wrote that he had been ‘ captivated ’ by a performance which by its daring and originality had brought an otherwise dull Tory conference startlingly to life . |