Example sentences of "had [be] send [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David , son of King Robert I and heir to the throne , had been sent to France by the English King Edward III . |
| 2 | There he read out a cablegram that had been sent to MCC in London . |
| 3 | Precisely why he had been sent to Tonga — what special knowledge or circumstance — was never explained and , sitting as I did for many an evening on the veranda of the magnificent old Residency , watching the fireflies and listening to the surf booming on the reef , I was not too sorely tempted to enquire . |
| 4 | Liza had been sent to boarding-school . |
| 5 | On April 27 , 1990 , Norway and Israel signed a draft agreement providing for the return of 10.5 tonnes of heavy water ( deuterium oxide , used to cool nuclear reactors ) to Norway , half the amount which had been sent to Israel in 1959 . |
| 6 | The jews in the countryside had been rounded up , with the active and sometimes enthusiastic support of the Hungarian authorities , and most had been sent to Auschwitz . |
| 7 | St Paul had been sent to Rome a prisoner , and suffered eventual execution . |
| 8 | Tommy Weir , 66 , of Walker Street , in Fauldhouse , West Lothian , died last Thursday of a heart attack after waiting more than 50 minutes for an ambulance which had been sent to Falkirk by mistake . |
| 9 | There was no home leave from overseas and , as far as I knew , few individuals or units of the Eighth Army had returned to Britain , for most had been sent to Sicily and thence to the toe and heel of Italy , or to Salerno , and by this time were fighting hard up the Italian peninsula on one or other side of the Appennines . |
| 10 | Earlier , a minibus had been sent to Eton to collect the Tavistocks ' youngest son Lord James Russell , and some of his young friends including Viscount Lumley , whose parents the Earl and Countess of Scarborough were staying in the houseparty at Woburn , as were Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea . |
| 11 | Mikhail Holovich had been sent to Camp 3 , Zone I. |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This had arrived and a copy had been sent to Inspector Lane . |
| 14 | His trained pet poodle who had been sent to Europe to reconnoitre the scene and steal Mark 's clothes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | By the time a second ambulance had been sent to Fauldhouse , Mr Weir had died . |
| 17 | Ramsgate had tired of the honour of his presence and he had been sent to Sandwich , under whose jurisdiction the Broadstairs police force came . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Sixteen days earlier ‘ the Baron ’ ( as Victoria and Albert called him ) had been sent to England by her ‘ Uncle Leopold ’ as his alter ego , and was Victoria 's guest at breakfast on her first day as queen . |
| 20 | She exchanged a few words with the shift supervisor , a dour Scot named Rachel McBride , and was told a message had been sent to Belial confirming their arrival and condition . |
| 21 | President George Bush said yesterday that a special US anti-terrorist team had been sent to El Salvador on Tuesday but had not been involved in ending the siege . |
| 22 | Walter , the youngest boy , had the most distant relationship with his father ; he and Robert had been sent to boarding school and had seen even less of John than their sisters . |
| 23 | Namawar and had been sent to hell-fire , came back in loud and strong . |
| 24 | Little Carl Mozart , then seven-years-old , had been sent to school in Perchtholdsdorf , a suburb of Vienna , and Mozart drove out on 13 October to collect him and take him and his grandmother Weber to see a performance of The Magic Flute . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A couple of years previously a letter had been sent to Keswick suggesting as much . |
| 27 | Although one government-inspired commentator tried later to dismiss the FBI teletype as ‘ an early memo … that sketched one possible scenario , as of October 1989 ’ , and which subsequent events had rendered ‘ irrelevant ’ and ‘ pointless ’ , it was less easy to reject the categorical denials by Air Malta , the airport staff at Luqa , the Maltese police and the Maltese government that any unaccompanied bag had been sent to Frankfurt on 21 December 1988 , or , indeed , that any Maltese connection with the Lockerbie bombing had been established at all , other than that the clothing in the suitcase bomb had apparently originated on the island . |
| 28 | But above all , the letter had been sent to Ms Laura Ashley , a form of address she detested . |
| 29 | Some reports claimed that Egyptian forces had been sent to Saudi Arabia even before the summit , at which Egypt formally undertook to send troops as part of a pan-Arab force . |
| 30 | Once , a message had been sent to Ford in Hollywood , entreating aid for the Navahos after a hard winter , and the director had found a Western script to make in Monument Valley simply to bring some money to the tribe . |