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Example sentences for "sent over"

  • He sent over, the following spring, Sir Richard Edgecombe, Comptroller of his household, accompanied by a guard of 500 men.

  • Plunkett, during his perilous administration, that the agents of Lord Shaftesbury, sent over to concoct evidence for the occasion, were afraid to bring him to trial in the vicinage of his arrest, or in his own country.

  • His Office and Duty should be to register all Letters of Orders and Credentials of Ministers, sent over by the Bishop of London, and also all Collations to Livings.

  • The Duke of Gloucester, hearing he had a tremendous army assembled in front of the town, sent over to Philip an offer to fight him.

  • The king examined the picture with the eye of a connoisseur, and being pleased with the sample, ordered the lot to be sent over to him with as little delay as possible.

  • His hurried flight from Ireland had forced him to leave books and manuscripts behind, and the Queen ordered them to be sent over to him.

  • The only way out of the difficulties occasioned by the maladministration of the Proprietors was that some Proprietor should be sent over “with full power” to heal all grievances.

  • Nevertheless, they, at the end of the session, sent over an address, in which they bore testimony to the mild and just administration of their lord-deputy.

  • Their commissary, sent over to London with powers to regulate the trade between the two nations, met with insuperable difficulties.

  • While I remained in this prison, I sent over numbers of boys and young men to Catholic Seminaries abroad.

  • Eliza made the cake I sent over, a fact I made known from its very beginning, to keep it from being devoured by those it was not intended for.

  • To serve refreshments of any kind at the hall means much work, for everything has to be prepared at the house--even coffee, must be sent over hot; and every piece of china and silver needed must be sent over also.

  • Dexter also believed Coppin to have been the "pilot" sent over by Cushman to Leyden, in May, 1620, and we have found both views to be untenable.

  • That none of the principal members of both Houses, who were in the King's service or council, would take upon them to advise how any material person or papers might be sent over on this occasion, &c.

  • The motive for such communications is made clear enough by still another letter that he sent over to Boston stating that, while Dr.

  • Not content with letters, he sent over ambassadors to impress on the Council the impolicy of allowing Gloucester to go to Hainault, and to procure, if possible, the abandonment of the idea.

  • At any rate, the Council of Rouen was informed that he was shortly to be sent over to France, and his non-appearance created great discontent in the Duchy of Normandy.

  • It received back from Virginia but a small part of the money it invested, and of all the emigrants whom it sent over, and their children, only one thousand two hundred and twenty-seven survived the charter.

  • These claims were of course irreconcilable, but the English lords, in order to assert their title, sent over in 1635 twenty servants, known as the Stiles party, who reached Connecticut in the summer of that year.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after time; could summon; dramatic poetry; feet from; little mistress; lobed stigma; looks like; name assumed; other material; sent abroad; sent against; sent for; sent forth; sent forward; sent from; sent messengers; sent orders; sent postpaid; sent some; sent them; sent thither; sent through; should proceed; southern latitude; spiritual sense; take another