Example sentences of "sent [adv] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite what this means in engineering terms I do n't know , but as far as the knitter is concerned , it means that if you buy the fine gauge lace carriage separately from your machine , the machine and carriage will probably have to be sent away to be tuned . |
| 2 | Babies were often sent away to be nursed in rural parishes where they were ill fed , overcrowded , and quieted with opiates ( see Fildes 1988 ) . |
| 3 | All exterior wrought iron work is sent away to be galvanised . |
| 4 | All guitars , from the cheapest acoustics to the top-of-the-range electrics are buzz-checked in soundproofed rooms ; their playing actions are measured and if any guitar falls below the proscribed tolerences it is sent off to be readjusted , perhaps even fret-dressed , before rechecking , packing and shipping . |
| 5 | When the Countess tried to calm her , explaining the picture had been sent off to be cleaned , Diana refused to believe her . |
| 6 | I am here making recordings of the Masai singing about cows and meanwhile my father is sitting in Paris pretending to be a man of the world , a saviour of his people while they are being sent off to be killed . ’ |
| 7 | In the good , old-fashioned days text was sent off to be typeset and came back in long strips called galleys . |
| 8 | The bird was sent off to be identified by a taxidermist and Uncle turned out to be right . |
| 9 | ‘ We went in and saw two of Quinton 's that been sent up to be shod . |
| 10 | The table had been sent out to be sprayed lacquered . |
| 11 | Some of the more interesting biographical details were apparently censored by departmental heads when they were sent back to be checked , but a few curiosities remain under the heading of leisure/interests , such as ‘ Three miniature smooth haired dachshund bitches ’ for County NatWest 's Angus Phaure , ‘ The later philosophy of Wittgenstein ’ for Merrill Lynch 's Ian McEwen ( sounds like fun ) and ‘ My wife ’ for BZW 's Colin Davies . |
| 12 | He was sent back to be shot by the Red Army . ’ |
| 13 | It is suggested that defective receipts should not be accepted , but should be sent back to be corrected . |
| 14 | But small though it is , Barèges was one of the first Pyrenean spas to make its name , mainly because Louis XIV 's sick son was sent there to be treated in the 1670s . |