Sentence examples for sent a present from inspiring English sources

Professor Caglioti tracked down Medici correspondence in the Florence State Archives that confirms that in the summer of 1537, Cosimo sent a present, a "statue," to the art-loving Cobos in Andalusia, following the example of several other Italian aristocrats of the time, who courted the powerful Spaniard by dispatching artworks including paintings by Titian and Sebastiano del Piombo.

When Queen Victoria sent a present of an elephant to the sultan of Morocco, this was where it was displayed.

You know he has already sent a present to your bedroom".

"We'd ask for them, and they'd send a present"—like a car.

The Queen said, "I should like to send a present to my dear sister, the Queen of England.

For your inevitable follow-up: Yes, when the monsters who came giftless invite your son to their birthdays, be the bigger person and send a present (preferably, a messy one that comes in 3 million tiny pieces).

Since October, three suicide bombs have been detonated in Volgograd, a major city that while some 900km from the Games site is where two of the blasts were carried out by insurgents who also reportedly promised to send a "present" to Olympic visitors.

And she can hardly be in the same room with another couple, business colleagues, who didn't attend the wedding but did not send a present, either, despite the generous gifts Ms. Kaufman and her husband had given them for their engagement, wedding and first child (all three gifts were from Bergdorf Goodman).

Example activities are 'Go out for a meal'; 'Attend leisure activities (e.g. dancing, bingo or attend a social club)'; 'Tend to the garden or allotment' (response scale several times a week (6) to never (0)) (Stockholm University, 1998; The Institute for Fiscal Studies, n.d).. Upon selection, a household was sent a letter presenting the purpose of the study.

Putin even sent me a present, a beautiful present".

To warm the ground a bit before appealing to Marie-Hélène, I sent her a present.