verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be sent for trial ( also be committed for trial British English )
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Smith's lawyer battled to stop him being sent for trial in Britain.
be sent into action
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He declared that French soldiers will not be sent into action in Iraq.
be sent into exile
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The old leaders were removed from power and sent into exile.
hand/pass/give/send out a leaflet
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Students were handing out election leaflets at the station.
send a donation
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Please help our campaign by sending a donation to Friends of the Earth.
send a letter
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The school sent a letter to all the children’s parents.
send a message
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My mum just sent me a text message.
send in troops
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Johnson wanted to win the war without sending in American ground troops.
send mail
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Please do not send personal mail to my work address.
send (off) for details (= write asking for information )
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Why don't you send for details of the course?
send out...search party
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Let’s get going or they’ll send out a search party .
send (out)/transmit a signal
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The signals are transmitted via satellites.
send sb a file (= send it using email )
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Do you want me to send you the file?
send (sb) an email
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Can you send me an email with all the details?
send (sb) an invitation
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We sent out the invitations last week.
send sb to jail
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The judge sent Meyer to jail for six years.
send sb to prison
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I was afraid I might get sent to prison.
send sb to school
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His parents sent him to a private school.
send sb to sleep (= make someone start sleeping )
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She hoped the music would send her to sleep.
send sth by post
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They sent me the contract by post.
send sth in code
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The message was sent in code to the task force, as a signal to attack.
send your details (= send your name and address to someone in the post )
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For a free sample, send your details to us on a postcard.
send/give out a signal
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The use of the army sends out a clear signal to protesters that their actions will not be tolerated.
sending...on errands
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She was always sending me on errands .
send...into a tailspin
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Raising interest rates could send the economy into a tailspin .
send/offer your condolences (= formally express your sympathy when someone has died )
send/provide aid
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EU Ministers meeting in Belgium agreed to send humanitarian aid.
send/receive a copy of sth
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Could you send me a copy of the agreement?
sent a chill down...spine (= made her very frightened )
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There was something in his tone that sent a chill down Melissa’s spine .
sent a chill through
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The sound of his dark laugh sent a chill through her.
sent shock waves through
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The child’s murder sent shock waves through the neighborhood.
sent to the front
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He joined the army, and was immediately sent to the front .
sent...flying
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William hit Jack on the head and sent his glasses flying .
sent...spirits soaring
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Adam’s smile sent her spirits soaring .
sent...sprawling
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a blow which sent him sprawling
throw/send sb into a panic
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The innocent question threw her into a panic.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
away
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Often these children had no idea why they had been sent away .
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Carl Krebsbach wore it out when he sent away for $ 20 worth of car bombs.
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Mrs Gracie had been sent away .
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A: I was building my body, and I sent away for the Charles Atlas exercise manual.
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If his Mummy tried to come, she was sent away .
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He was the child chosen to be sent away to study.
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NO. 1 was sent away a little later.
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Suddenly, however, the ladies were sent away .
back
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It has been sent back with a frosty message from one of his constituents, who is unidentified.
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With no definitive ruling, however, he was quickly sent back to prison without his belongings.
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After de Silva was sent back , Alec Stewart threw to the bowler's end and Hick removed the bails.
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Thousands of survivors were released and sent back to their villages amid exhortations to the nation to forgive and forget.
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Valuable information was sent back regarding troop movements, flying-bomb factory and assembly areas, and supply dumps.
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All traffic was sent back to Fort Meade in Washington.
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A reply is sent back to the mall store saying the restocking pants are on their way.
home
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If any of the beaters did incur his wrath, they were sent home .
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Everyone was sent home with the assignment to draft a proposed definition.
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When he refused he was sent home , with lavish presents, to complete his task.
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If Sean forgot the sheet or if it was not signed, he was sent home .
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The official response to all this is that whenever men are caught in a brothel they are sent home .
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They may be more concerned about pain, or being sent home from the hospital after one day.
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Derek Turnbull arrived at Murrayfield, but was sent home suffering from flu.
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As a consequence, they were sent home .
off
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I see Chapman got sent off for Portsmouth.
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So they sent off records to hospitals at Stanford and UC-San Diego.
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Damiano Tommasi paid for it minutes later when he was sent off for felling Robbie Fowler.
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Here we go, I thought, as I sent off the entire request to the company.
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To rub salt into the wound, they had Michael Mols sent off .
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Amelia notified Mike Jackman to send off a telegram if they actually became airborne.
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So why delay? Send off now - 140 delicious new recipes are waiting for you.
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You thank them, make a few changes, and send off the document.
out
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The best IBMers were sent out in the seventies on secondments, then seen to come back into promotions.
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I mentioned that we had by agreement sent out in advance a large quantity of information posters.
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Others sent out letters offering wrongly suspected felons the chance of reinstating themselves.
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Invoices on account amounting to £24,000 had been sent out in 1989.
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Maybe if I had been sent to piano lessons instead of being sent out to play, I'd see things different.
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The jury will be sent out tomorrow.
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Did he really have all that in the kitchen or had she sent out for it?
please
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Green Shield will shortly cease their gifts so please send in what you have.
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Below is an application form for the Dinner Dance tickets. Please send me ... number of tickets at £12 each.
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Some one at Columbia please send her nut-brown eyes round to me in a jar.
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Those parents wishing to pay for the half-term should please send £46.90.
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He also suffers from heart disease. Please send appeals requesting his immediate and unconditional release to:.
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There must be some one out there who was at the match or saw highlights. Please send details.
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Will you help us to be there when they need us? Please send whatever you can.
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You are bone and wood, Grandmother, so you must know how to save us. Please send us food.
■ NOUN
child
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And buying a lovely house of your own and sending the children to good schools.
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Bay Area parents typically pay a few thousand dollars in annual tuition to send their children to preschool.
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Come on Mums - think before you send your child out alone.
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A newsletter is regularly produced including excerpts from the electronic messages received and sent by children using the network.
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The rich send their children to private schools and the middle classes move to the suburbs.
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As parents choose where to send their children some small schools are being by-passed for the larger urban schools.
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I had been sending my child the wrong message for years and here I was reinforcing that message.
copy
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On Nietzsche's return from the war in late 1870, Wagner sent him a copy of Beethoven.
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She sent a copy of her letter to me.
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I would be happy to send him a copy of our policy document if he would like to have more detail.
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It will generally be impracticable to send a copy of standard terms by telex.
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Mrs Kennerley sent a copy of the letter to his campaign team as proof of his patriotism at the time.
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The Buyer shall upon obtaining such signature send a copy of the signed undertaking to the Seller.
information
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Visitors with mobility, sight or hearing impairments will be sent an information sheet and plan on request.
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After reviewing the memo, Lake wrote a note to his secretary asking her to send the information to his broker.
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It's not a criminal offence, is it, sending information to the police?
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Michael and Susan Ramos will send you full information about their truly exceptional bakery products.
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Officials are sending out information packs to 4000 firms in the area, mostly employing office staff.
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He asked me to send him pricing information .
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Some offices send out information automatically while others wait for you to approach them.
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I had read a newspaper article on the National Teacher Corps and had sent away for information .
letter
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I had to send my letters via Du Camp.
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Faced with this situation, the church sent a letter to the apostle asking in part about his opinions on this problem.
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In time she was allowed to send letters to her former husband and to her children.
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Nicole Simpson sent him cookies, letters and tapes filled with love songs, he said.
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I must send a letter to her parents first thing tomorrow and then make arrangements for the funeral.
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I had moved up to Allocation and Repayment then, and I sent him a blistering letter about it.
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In the early days, individuals who sent letters received a standard reply from Paul Lee.
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Six thousand people a week sent letters and postcards.
love
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Of course, she sent her love to Jean.
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Users can send as many love missives as they like, one at a time.
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So listen to it, send it your love - then use a positive affirmation.
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A giant Styrofoam heart to send to your true love , from Better Than a Letter, $ 4. 50.
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Rachaela had not asked Ruth if she wished to send Emma her love .
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He asks me to send you his love .
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I am fine and your family is in good health and send their love .
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Grandparents, schoolfriends and neighbours all tried to write to the children, to send messages of love and support.
message
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Telegraph came to the village in 1901 and messages were sent by morse code.
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Anything that interferes with these receptors influences the messages being sent from neuron to neuron in the brain.
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About 50m messages are sent each day, turning mobile phones into a convenient medium for spreading rumours about the president.
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What a message we send when we pull our child back from the fence at the ballpark!
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Ralf riding post-haste through the trees with messages for Hoel to send to me.
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What kind of message does that send ?
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Is this message sent on purpose?
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Imagine what a message that would send forth, both inside the city and out.
money
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The fund is now closed; please don't send any more money .
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There is only Fannie to send him money for books, clothes and entertainment.
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Please do not send any money at this stage.
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After the war Sammler had sent money , parcels, to Cieslakiewicz.
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She sent money to pay for my education.
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Everyone says you must send money orders if you do not want your letter stolen.
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For the first year he was at Berkeley, we continued to send him spending money .
post
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Her Confidential File etc. has been sent via registered post .
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Documentation is sent through the post when the software is downloaded.
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All tickets sent by return post .
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But it is illegal to import it, send it through the post or display it to the general public.
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Fax or telex messages should therefore refer to the standard terms, but the terms themselves be sent by post .
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Registration of mail is used when money or valuables are sent through the post .
prison
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If she really wanted she could get him sent to prison .
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Rodriguez said it was the first time a parolee has been sent directly from prison to a jail-like facility.
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However, this has been used mainly for those whose crimes would not have sent them to prison anyway.
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With no definitive ruling, however, he was quickly sent back to prison without his belongings.
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These two, when they arrived, he sent to the prison .
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Most of the Communists left with the Red Army, but some were sent to prison .
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This time they must send him to prison .
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Vincent was caught, tried, then sent to prison .
report
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Thomas asked Meagher to send him a written report .
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Perhaps the lab Tucson Water normally sends its samples to reports what Tucson Water wants to hear.
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We shall of course send a report of the questionnaire results to every institution which completes the questionnaire for us.
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Friez expects the disaster declaration will be made within days after the state sends the report to the president, he said.
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For instance, an employee is asked to send in a regular report on how certain work is progressing.
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Just keep sending the reports , he says, until further notice.
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But Rance sent no such report .
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Though regulatory authorities send folks reports on their pension savings every four months, few people actually read them.
school
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Men with potential were sent to torture school and underwent a process of desensitisation.
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In second grade my class was sent home from school for the afternoon when John F.. Kennedy got shot.
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They were sent to schools and teachers were expected to teach them.
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They sent him to sniper school , put a scope on his rifle, and that was the last of it.
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Then his uncle had decided that it was time to send him to school .
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Finally he was sent to an approved school and then he disappeared from the district.
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Do I send my children to school or out into the workforce?
signal
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This senses the water temperature and sends a signal to the control box where it is processed in a microchip.
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It sends no signals to the satellites.
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It has sent signals that the Tories never would.
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And the fifth layer sends signals to other deep and distant neural structures, sometimes even the spinal cord.
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Maybe Jaq would send the signal for exterminatus - and that command would already have been countermanded, light years away.
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A fiber optic system can send its signals greater distances and with less signal degradation than can the traditional coaxial system.
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With its ugly echoes of the past, it sends a worrying signal for the future.
wave
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She's sending out great waves of nastiness.
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The guide was lecturing telepathically, simply standing there, sending out thought waves to the crowd.
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The idea behind radar was to send out radio waves and listen for echoes from enemy craft.
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The grisly double homicide sent shock waves through this south Berkeley neighborhood.
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It closed possessively on the aroused peak, sending delicious waves of pleasure shuddering through her.
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The slaying sent waves of fear through the community, especially after three teen-agers were charged in the murder.
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Steamers sent waves up the banks and naked brown boys jumped into the wash, shouting and laughing.
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It sent shock waves through the education establishment.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(send sb on) a fool's errand
give/send your regrets
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Henry sends his regrets - he has the flu.
send sb off with a flea in their ear
send sb to Coventry
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I don't know why they won't talk to me. I didn't know I'd been sent to Coventry .
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Unfairly sent to Coventry for two weeks, Hannah decided to run away from school.
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When he refused to join the strike, Joe's mates sent him to Coventry for three weeks.
send sb to sleep
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However, the new research opens up the prospect of a far more effective treatment that simply sends the cancers to sleep .
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It was also brief because, as explained above, it simply sends me to sleep .
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The endless incomprehensible stream of language was sending Alan to sleep on his feet.
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To send them to sleep , she said.
send/deliver sth express
send/give your love (to sb),
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Dad and Charles send their love .
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I am fine and your family is in good health and send their love .
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Now I am alone except for this unwilling stranger and even to him I gave my love freely. 6.
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Of course, she sent her love to Jean.
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Open now your hearts to me; give your love to me.
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Please give my love to Christopher - will speak to you soon.
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Please send me a couple of views of St Albans. Give my love to Kitty.
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We are all fine and Chris and Nick send their love .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Send a cheque for £50 with your order.
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He sent a dozen red roses to his girlfriend on her birthday.
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He sent the children out of the room so we could talk.
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He travelled all over the world, but decided to send his son to school in England.
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How many Christmas cards did you send ?
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Kristen sent some pictures from the party.
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Perhaps I should send him a note of apology.
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She sent him a furious email.
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The ship sent a distress call.
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There are no plans to send British troops to the area.
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Who sent you?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fiber optic system can send its signals greater distances and with less signal degradation than can the traditional coaxial system.
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After his death, Dolly discovered he had sent two songs to a recording label.
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Each publisher had sent it back, in a packet addressed to Currer Bell.
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Having founded Fort Victoria in 1843, he was sent there as chief factor in 1849.
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Nero sends his luv, you know he's coming over here to give us a turn this winter.