Example sentences of "[vb past] written to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But undeterred by background or family opinion , I 'd written to the BBC to let them know of my ambitions to be a broadcaster — and was dismissed without benefit of an interview . |
| 2 | The department had written to the ESRC : ‘ In all the circumstances it is not appropriate for the Government to support it … and , more generally , it would not be appropriate for the Government to sponsor the survey . ’ |
| 3 | He had written to the Office of Fair Trading to ask if , in the absence of any interest by the Government , it would seek formal assurances from Ford on future investment levels , research and development expenditure , training , component sourcing and the development of the dealer network . |
| 4 | THE first split in the Government 's ranks over the ambulance workers dispute appeared last night when it was disclosed that Mr David Trippier , the Environment Minister , had written to the Health Secretary saying he could see the logic in the ambulance workers ' case . |
| 5 | Dr Arabella had written to the Guardian from her innocent sounding Old Vicarage Farm , in Cenarth , Dyfed , about the agonies suffered by sheep under normal farming methods . |
| 6 | ‘ The customary processes of consultation ’ would be gone through , Macmillan had written to the Conservative party conference in Blackpool from his hospital bed in London , racked with the pain of an inflamed prostate gland . |
| 7 | In February 1929 Irwin had written to the Secretary of State of a conversation with Gandhi that ‘ what was interesting ’ was his statement that , if Indians were at liberty to order their own future , ‘ we should be astonished by how much they would desire to leave in our hands through lack of self-confidence ’ . |
| 8 | I wished that I had written to the two women about Donald 's death , and that I was not now obliged to tell them of it . |
| 9 | The director , Mr Lee , she said , had written to the parents , inviting them to come and talk . |
| 10 | At the November hearing , the taxpayer said he had written to the building society in May and August and had telephoned them in September but still did not have the required details . |
| 11 | Just before this a number of leading members of that church had written to The Times declaring their disbelief in the Devil . |
| 12 | She had written to the Mother General , she had put Eve 's case as persuasively as she could . |
| 13 | One resident had written to the council suggesting a secular group building might better suit the area 's needs , saying she would prefer a facility which would offer something for more of the residents . |
| 14 | Two people living near the pit had written to the council expressing concern the changes had already started . |
| 15 | This opinion is contained in a letter of reply in Spanish to AI members who had written to the Mexican authorities in late 1991 expressing concern about the ‘ disappearance ’ of Jose Ramon . |
| 16 | There had been some disagreement about the value of the land on which the House was eventually built , and John Wing had written to the Earl of Ashburnham saying that : |
| 17 | In 1934 Lord Trenchard , the Metropolitan Police Commissioner , had written to the Home Secretary complaining that the BUF had passed false information with regard to a communist plot to attack the Holloway branch and an alleged IFL plan to attack the Chelsea headquarters , and suggested that this mischievous nonsense would best be dealt with by outlawing the fascist movement . |
| 18 | Some of it arrived about two weeks after she had written to the box number , in the shape of three typewritten pages . |
| 19 | On 12 June an accountant employed by Woolwich had written to the revenue accounts office : |
| 20 | I had written to the South African Cricket Union asking for his address and , some weeks later and to my great delight , a letter arrived from Geoff Griffin himself ! |
| 21 | Much later , after the funeral , Billy 's mother looked for the letter that Auntie had written to the pension people . |
| 22 | Shortly after her move abroad she had written to the then Director of Manchester City Art Gallery , Tim Clifford , asking if she could view some of the Museum 's early nineteenth-century cotton samples and take photographs . |
| 23 | During the days , while the Captain worked on the ship , Frankenstein wrote down his story , and each evening he read what he had written to the Captain . |
| 24 | On 16th April 1973 the estate agents had written to the defendants drawing attention to the existence of the counter-inflationary measures then in force and concluding with the sentence : ‘ I would also confirm that should you be successful in acquiring these premises then it will be necessary for us to look to you for payment of our fees as based on the commercial scales of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . ’ |
| 25 | On Feb. 8 the official news agency Tass had disclosed that Georgia 's Prime Minister Tengiz Sigua had written to the director of an armaments factory in the Russian city of Tula offering to barter Georgian food products for guns and ammunition . |
| 26 | According to a report in The Times of April 3 , the United States administration had also urged political reform , and a White House official confirmed that President Bush had written to the Amir " about the political and economic challenges in Kuwait " . |
| 27 | After their release they said that they had been " kidnapped " by the authorities after two of them had written to the King warning of a plot by Col. Ahmed Dlimi , then one of his key advisers . |
| 28 | In December 1939 Mellanby had written to the Board of Education , drawing attention to the sharp difference between pre-war medical inspection returns for pediculosis in children ( approximately 10% ) and the claims of hosts in the reception areas that it was rife . |
| 29 | DONATION — Pauline was pleased to report that she had written to the National Westminster Bank Sponsorship and Community Affairs Dept. and received a donation of £500 to the Society . |
| 30 | The story contained an edited version of a letter the man had written to the newspaper accusing Banbury CID officers of raping and beating his wife . |