Example sentences of "had sent for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seth had sent for Vicky four years earlier , when he first came to New Orleans , and they had lived together for six months . |
| 2 | In the end , the mother had sent for an old lady from the Isle of Anglesey , thought to be a witch . |
| 3 | It had been Burn , even when on his sick bed , who had sent for Sir George Gilbert Scott and given him his support when in professional difficulty . |
| 4 | With the coming of fresh food , and the medicines that Abul had sent for , she seemed to rally her strength . |
| 5 | Apparently he had mistaken the small man in jeans for the window cleaner he had sent for . |
| 6 | Long before , when he was in perfect health , we had watched a television programme concerned with the high cost of dying and had sent for the accompanying booklet , entitled , appropriately , It 's a R.I.P. Off . |
| 7 | ‘ No ; no mad rush , ’ I was told , but Miss Prescott had sent for the doctor . |
| 8 | The local doctor had sent for St Andrew 's ( hardly expecting me ) because the patient had been bringing up blood , and St Andrew 's had a specialist unit dealing with internal bleeding . |
| 9 | He had sent for Philip who had raced up from Wales to coach and instruct this miraculous son in a great Shakespearian role to be performed in an Oxford college before an audience of West End luminaries ( Gielgud , Terence Rattigan ) : ‘ We worked on it line by line , hour after hour , into the early morning … |
| 10 | In a letter to Samuel Whitbread on July 21st 1813 , Dr. Yeats complained that in his absence five medical men including Mr. Pulley , Mr. Short and Mr. Gibbon , a Bedford apothecary , had sent for , and examined the patient . |
| 11 | It was she who took up the trays Anna would n't touch when she kept to her room and had sent for her trunks . |
| 12 | She had sent for lawyers . |
| 13 | Hope had sent for Burkett : when the man and his daughter arrived , he took them to a quiet corner of the yard . |
| 14 | That was when they had sent for Captain Freddie , and after what he described as a long , sometimes ‘ vair ackermonious diskussion ’ , and after a good deal of long distance telephoning , fax instructions had finally come through that allowed the Chileans to accept his decision as to what was required . |
| 15 | When we arrived at Jaipur my father told us that he had sent for us so that we could go with him tiger-shooting . |
| 16 | Surere , presumably , had sent for him because he needed his help ; why was it , then , that he gave the impression of bestowing a favour ? |
| 17 | I heard them say they had sent for you . ’ |
| 18 | He had sent for a copy , but the bureaucratic machine seemed to be taking its time . |
| 19 | Patrick was looking through the Kawasaki brochures he had sent for when he heard her handbell summoning him . |
| 20 | Michelle was the only one on duty there , but she put down the latest James Herbert long enough to tell me that yes , they had sent for an Airborne messenger just after eleven , and that Anna kept asking if I 'd called . |
| 21 | As Rachel reached her flat and let herself in she found herself trying to remember whether David had been there that evening when her mother had sent for her . |
| 22 | ‘ Naylor 's your cousin — and a bachelor ? ’ questioned Leith , still trying to work out why ‘ Naylor ’ had ‘ naturally ’ been the one Mrs Hepwood had sent for . |