Sentence examples for were despatched from inspiring English sources

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were despatched

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(see also Wikipedia's Mentioned in Despatches)

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Reporters were despatched to Newquay to interview Taylor and Pollard.

The letters were despatched by a private hire cab firm.

Large numbers of ambulances were despatched to the scene, as commuters were helped to safety.

Another plane and crew were despatched to take the passengers on to Bogotá.

And it should have developed a better system to track its assets after they were despatched.

Mr Raffarin promptly summoned television reporters to express his sorrow; ministers were despatched with wreaths to the crash site.

However, the Filbert Street feelgood factor was in full effect and United were despatched 1-0 with Melrose again the scorer.

The next two deliveries were despatched over the bowler's head for four and final one cut past gully to the third man boundary.

Torture was institutionalised, secret detention centres operated into which detainees disappeared never to be seen again, and murder squads were despatched to kill prominent dissidents abroad.

Of those that fled, some were presently cut off by the pursuers; others, and these were the greatest number, dispersed hither and thither, and were despatched by the people that came sallying out from the neighbouring towns and villages.

The Guardian's Neville Cardus wrote of her (live) Brahms Paganini Variations that they were "despatched in a seamless riot of ecstatic bravura laced with underlying deep musical feeling rarely countenanced in this work".

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