Example sentences of "sent [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sedgley was sent on for Walsh in order to protect the two-goal lead , and Hendry was given a couple of minutes at the end so that Lineker could take a well-earned breather . |
| 2 | If one suspect confesses and implicates the other , who does not confess , the confessor will go free as a reward for cooperation , while the partner is sent down for the maximum sentence , 10 years . |
| 3 | ‘ Mrs McDougall , ’ I said flatly , ‘ what was he sent down for ? ’ |
| 4 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 5 | If he did that , some of our constituents might receive benefits , and the people involved in crime might get sent down for longer periods . |
| 6 | Some were sent especially for this purpose but they were also an important means of communication and often the back of the postcard is as interesting as the front . |
| 7 | Anyway , a bumper crop of entries have been sent in for my perusal with a phenomenal response for the Hi-Tec and Elvira puzzlers so , waffling aside , let's see who the lucky pilchards are this time . |
| 8 | Coleridge 's letter of 22 July 1797 to Tom Poole , asking that ‘ a fore quarter of Lamb ’ be sent over for the Alfoxden housewarming |
| 9 | And when the needles , which had been kept in a plastic container , were sent away for analysis traces of amphetamine were detected . |
| 10 | The prosecution 's case lasted five months , after which the jury was sent away for 75 days , partly for a holiday and partly while the judge heard legal arguments . |
| 11 | Their knives were sent away for analysis and when the results came back indicating the presence of copper on the blades the rest of the suspects were released . |
| 12 | I was sent away for life , and they 'll hang me if they discover I 've come back . ’ |
| 13 | The judge decided that Magwitch , a convict sent away for life who had returned , must be hanged . |
| 14 | Prior to the formation of ESP , submersible pumps were either sent away for repair , or re-run after they were pulled from the well . |
| 15 | I 've sent away for it . |
| 16 | Willie Johnson was sent home for taking drugs , Chrysler withdrew an advertising campaign which showed Scotland supporting the Avenger Saloon , Rod Stewart 's Ole Ola plummeted down the charts , then finally Scotland got something right . |
| 17 | Because New York in the summer was too hot even for the natives , shows would close for a couple of months when the Girls would be sent home for a holiday on half pay , which was better than the average salary in Britain . |
| 18 | There is still a lot of British furniture , silver and paintings in the island , especially seventeenth- and eighteenth-century works , When Britons came to Madeira , they built themselves houses and then sent home for their furniture and china . |
| 19 | Individuals serving abroad who were found to have the HIV virus were sent home for tests and then restricted to bases within the U.S. |
| 20 | The inner cities — especially London — are very badly hit and some children have had to be sent home for lack of teachers . |
| 21 | Coventry City .. 3 Grimsby Town ... 0 ( Coventry win 4-3 on agg ) GRIMSBY played for 87 minutes of this Littlewoods Cup tie with 10 men , and their prospects of defending the two-goal lead they brought to Highfield Road disappeared with Tony Rees , who was sent off for a coward 's foul on Greg Downs . |
| 22 | THEY take the lead with a fine goal , concede two sloppy ones , and then the captain gets sent off for throwing a punch not even redeemed by the infliction of injury . |
| 23 | GARETH CHILCOTT , the England prop who was sent off for the fourth time in his playing career with Bath when the champions suffered a League reversal at Gloucester last month , is still awaiting news of his punishment from the Somerset disciplinary committee . |
| 24 | On the same day , Gloucester stole a march by beating the champions , Bath , at Kingsholm in a fierce encounter during which another England prop , Bath 's Gareth Chilcott , was sent off for punching . |
| 25 | CHRIS BURTON , Featherstone 's former Great Britain forward , has been suspended for five matches by the Rugby League disciplinary committee after being sent off for a head tackle in Featherstone 's home championship defeat by Leeds last Sunday . |
| 26 | Gareth Chilcott — popularised as the Oddjob of English rugby during the first World Cup in Australia in 1987 , but affectionately referred to as ‘ Coochie ’ in these parts — was sent off for punching , and 14 men of Bath succumbed to Gloucester 's 15 . |
| 27 | Often there are letters in the papers from parents who have sent off for T-shirts and pictures from a band 's fan club , only to have their cheque cashed and to receive nothing for months . |
| 28 | His nose was broken in two places by a player he had sent off for violent play . |
| 29 | STEVE HAMPSON , the Wigan and Great Britain full-back , was suspended for 10 matches by the disciplinary committee yesterday after being sent off for a head tackle in Saturday 's Regal Trophy quarter-final with at Leeds . |
| 30 | The Leeds stand-off or loose forward , David Heron , has received the now customary eight-match ban after being sent off for a high tackle in the Regal Trophy quarter-final replay with Wigan . |