A prince from a Middle Eastern country once sent his assistant to buy a boat.

No problem--you send your assistant to buy a pack for you.

I've sent my assistant up to consent to a continuance.

Morton sent his assistant scurrying from the room on the task.

My father, who had been monitoring my e-mail, sent two police officers and his personal assistant to bring me home.

Then you sent your assistant downstairs to listen to them.

He found meeting the press painful and would send his assistant, Richter, who enjoyed the attention, to deal with them.

Then she sent her assistant to look at the patient who needed the bed (now temporarily resting in the ordinary type) and tried to think.

I say, send your assistant down to the guest house to check my computer.

The steward was about to send his first assistant in the direction your young French friend said you had gone.