Example sentences of "[prep] be send to " in BNC.

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1 When Stacey was found , Mrs Queripel told police she had disappeared from the family 's flat in Birch Hill , Bracknell , after being sent to bed early .
2 Her parents had taken her to the doctor because of breathing problems and after being sent to hospital it was discovered L had extensive bruising across the buttocks .
3 ‘ There was general anticipation of regulations which would insist that more difficult wastes were burned instead of being sent to landfill . ’
4 The gipsies , instead of being sent to prison for stealing a pony , were only fined for stealing potatoes and oats .
5 He must have had the same kind of feelings as my father had at the prospect of being sent to Fontanellato .
6 BANKER Lorrain Osman , 60 , held in custody for 5½ years , was yesterday granted a final appeal by the High Court against being sent to Hong Kong on fraud charges .
7 First , there should be a sentencing council , which would bring some consistency to sentencing and prevent people from being sent to prison for unreasonable periods .
8 The other on population and housing , erm has been delayed in being sent to the printers , in order that we might incorporate some of the erm information from last year er so that the document would be thereby erm even more er immediately useful and in consequence it wo n't be available until either the end of the month or the very beginning of February , but er progress is on a is in hand on that er that 's all I wanted to say to you .
9 ‘ The Red Terror ’ , as Phar Lap was to become known , was a freak of breeding : his sire Night Raid failed to win at all in England before being sent to Australia and his dam Entreaty was unplaced on her only start .
10 He did an eight month fitter/armourer course ending up his training with top marks and a corporal 's stripes , and then did several months ' instructing before being sent to a ground crew on a Bomber Command airfield .
11 Remember that the values read from the games port can be mathematically manipulated before being sent to the controller circuit .
12 Northern Ireland minister Michael Mates was also a regular before being sent to Ulster .
13 They were quickly fitted with track brakes and put back into service on the Crystal Palace route still in Croydon Corporation livery , in which they ran for several weeks , before being sent to Hendon in turn for repainting and renumbering .
14 He then spent a brief spell on the staff at the Gaczyna spy school before being sent to Angola in 1974 as a senior military adviser ; three years later he took over as commandant of the notorious Balashikha , a centre on the outskirts of Moscow used for the training of international terrorists .
15 After some brief editing , Reference vinyl master discs are made on the company 's own lathe before being sent to one of the few remaining specialist pressing plants in the US .
16 Later in the war he commanded two more divisions , before being sent to Berlin early in 1919 as the head of the British military mission .
17 They have to be sent to ‘ cowboy school ’ .
18 However , Boss 's joy was tempered by the fact that Balla Cove was sold to two Americans earlier this week and is to be sent to the United States to be trained by Ron MacAnally , who prepared the great John Henry .
19 In London , a spokesman for Knighton said the offer document for the take-over was ready to be sent to shareholders on Wednesday .
20 Fourth September — news at Brigade H.Q that the Brigade would be returning to England on the 6th September to reorganise and prepare to be sent to the Far East and continue the war against the Japanese .
21 Mrs Chamorro appealed for close international scrutiny and support for the electoral process , and for observers to be sent to Nicaragua from unions and professional groups , as well as the UN and the OAS .
22 He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already .
23 The government 's efforts to get a bill through parliament allowing soldiers to be sent to the Gulf in non-combat roles came to nothing .
24 Some disagree with this line of thinking — notably Ichiro Ozawa , the secretary-general of Japan 's ruling party , who has been arguing for Japanese soldiers to be sent to the Gulf in a non-combat role — but they have not had much luck making their case .
25 Instead , human actions cause electrical impulses to be sent to an electronic governor on one end of the engine .
26 The undertaking of the welfare of illegitimate children of soldiers who had been killed , the organization of accommodation and support for those evacuated from the western borders of the Reich already in autumn 1939 , or the administration of packages to be sent to relatives at the Front , were all tasks which fell to the Nazi welfare organization , the NSV .
27 Our usual joke is that for a Hungarian novelist to get published and widely read , he has first to be sent to prison .
28 Copies were to be sent to all sheriffs , who were to publish them to the people ; others were to be kept in all cathedral churches and read twice a year .
29 Perhaps the most unbearably poignant opera of the last half-century is The Emperor of Atlantis , which was written in Theresianstadt concentration camp , while composer and librettist waited to be sent to Auschwitz .
30 ‘ We are also concerned that any troublesome remand prisoner is unlikely to be sent to the Wolds , and that while we have to deal with them the Group 4 people are cushioned . ’
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