Sentence examples for despatched him from inspiring English sources

His parents were traditional Greenlanders who despatched him to Denmark as a boy to acquire European polish; like many a colonial sent to the metropolis, the experience made him a nationalist.

He has despatched him on several sensitive diplomatic missions including to Pakistan after the US raid that killed the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden, badly damaged Washington's relations with Islamabad.

He clubs to death "a poor little ensign, so young, slender, and small, that a blow from my pigtail would have despatched him ... ", and bayonets a French officer before butchering a further four.

The book is also an account of those he meets along the way, from the unfriendly school officials who despatch him, dripping, from the river Itchen at Winchester College, to an extraordinary vignette of a fenland eel-man.

His performances revived calls for him to be selected for the senior England team, and a member of the selection committee was despatched to watch him play against Huddersfield Town on 18 September 1954, but nothing came of it in the short term, although he was selected for a Football League XI which played an exhibition match against a Scottish League team.

Easy to see him being despatched down under for a tour of editors, opinion leaders and MPs.

When the big man finally shuffled off to that Great Pyramid in the desert, his devoted attendants would be gently despatched to the afterlife with him, via a gentle whack about the head with a mallet.

But, mixing watchful defence with some bold hitting against the spinners, Arif dominated a last-wicket alliance that also saw him despatch four sixes over the short pavilion-side boundary.

Learning of Linois's reappearance off Ceylon, Pellew immediately despatched a squadron in search of him.

The Lords advised him to join the fleet despatched to the West Indies under Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian, but it was dispersed by gales and the ship Walker was travelling on returned to port.

England's newest international had been a growing influence with his midfield breaks, one had already prompted Everton's first equaliser when Baines despatched a free-kick awarded when James Collins brought him down.