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send someone for someone or something to cause someone to go and get someone or something. Please send Jerry for the doctor. This is an emergency. Could you send someone for pizza? See also: send send for someone or something to make a request that someone or something be brought. Mr. Franklin sent for his secretary. I think we should send for an ambulance. See also: send send for somebody to request or demand that someone come to you Knowing he was extremely ill, we sent for his family. See also: send send for something to request that something be sent or brought to you She sent for catalogs and read lots of books before she started the garden. See also: send How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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"Then send for the bricklayer and have it seen to," said his master. His invariable petition to his medical attendants entreated them to send for her to nurse him. Ye shall not see my strikers; ye shall hear them and guess; By night, before the moon-rise, I will send for my cess, And the wolf shall he your herdsman By a landmark removed, For the Karela, the bitter Karela, Shall seed where ye loved! |
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