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Example sentences for "sent down"

  • Having furled all the sails, the royal yards were next to be sent down.

  • The story of this Interpreter is sent down to us, not by accident, but by his own design.

  • Do not treat Allah's Signs as a jest, but solemnly rehearse Allah's favours on you, and the fact that He sent down to you the Book and Wisdom, for your instruction.

  • Y: Remember thou saidst to the Faithful: Is it not enough for you that Allah should help you with three thousand angels (Specially) sent down?

  • On that day shall the heaven with its clouds be cleft, and the angels shall be sent down, descending: On that day shall all empire be in very deed with the God of Mercy, and a hard day shall it be for the Infidels.

  • Thus have We sent down to thee an Arabic Koran, and have set forth menaces therein diversely, that haply they may fear God, or that it may give birth to reflection in them.

  • And now have we sent down to you "the book," in which is your warning: What, will ye not then understand?

  • A blessed Book9 have we sent down to thee, that men may meditate its verses, and that those endued with understanding may bear it in mind.

  • It would not do to lose this opportunity of getting clear out to sea again; so I sent down to McAllister, who soon joined me, and agreed that I was right.

  • I sent down my name, and was told to go into the cabin.

  • They were none of those who had appeared on deck, and must have been concealed very cleverly when we sent down to search below.

  • Before his arrival, the council had resolved that all resignations tendered should be accepted, and the officers tendering them immediately sent down to Calcutta.

  • After some remarks made against some of these provisions by the Bishops of Exeter and Hereford, the lords agreed to them; and the bill was passed and sent down to the commons, but it was dropped for the session.

  • Their rations might be sent down to them, and what happier home could they wish for, with the finest air in the world around them, as well as beautiful scenery?

  • For Colonel Lougher and Lady Bluett, at the very beginning of the frost, sent down my old friend, Crumpy the butler, to report upon my condition, and to give his candid opinion what was the best thing to do with me.

  • Had Gordon reached there early in January he could have saved them all, for as it was he sent down 2600 refugees, i.

  • They will accept a convention like the one I sent down to the Colonial Secretary on the 19th of July, and no other.

  • The cabarets used by the men are all close to the barracks, so that, in case of a fracas, a guard is sent down to bring all concerned in it back to the barracks.

  • One man whom we sent down to the plains, apparently in the last stage of decline, has got safe to Calcutta, and is quite well again.

  • Loodheeana; so all our chairs and footstools were sent down to be made into pews, and Mr. Y.

  • For this François Paul, whom the sergeant thus respectfully addressed as Inspector, was no other than an officer of the secret police who had been sent down to Beaulieu the day before from head-quarters in Paris.

  • The external mode in which it came is referred to in the verse: "We have sent down to thee an Arabic Qurán.

  • They indicate that the style of the Qurán is carried to such a degree of excellence, that it defies every attempt to imitate it; for this book which has been sent down to us from heaven is composed of letters.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    attitude towards; cannot forbear; doing what; duty and; each side; electric circuit; generally speaking; good cheer; national bank; organized body; prize essay; repeat what; sent abroad; sent ambassadors; sent away; sent for; sent forward; sent orders; sent over; sent some; sent the; sent thee; sent thither; sent unto; sent word; square form