Example sentences of "write [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there is the all-important local pull , with staff and graduates keen to write for their own university press , strongly supported in EUP 's case by the scholarly expertise of its Press Committee . |
| 2 | In addition to training choirs and editing editions of Tudor polyphony , he persuaded Vaughan Williams and the young Howells , among others , to write for his choir . |
| 3 | At this stage she started to write about her time in Bristol as very faintly disguised autobiography . |
| 4 | We asked Barbara to write about her favourite and most useful London shops , and readers voted with their feet by flocking to the shops she featured . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , her gift is to write about her characters as if they are known to her : her stories unfold through their eyes , with no apparent authorial manipulation . |
| 6 | In their ambition to produce a cinema version of Granta , the editors have not solved the problem presented by the fact that film-makers who want to write about their films probably are not making them . |
| 7 | This ungiving endurance is admired by working-class boys who grow up to write about their mothers ' flinty courage . |
| 8 | Several more were contacted through teachers and other sources , and I also asked some older teenage mothers to write about their earlier years . |
| 9 | Last but not least , Keith is an historian who has frequently visited Mexico and it does n't faze him that I , as a Mexican , should come to his country to write about its artists . |
| 10 | Curiously enough , provided the mystery to be solved is not feeble and provided you can manage to write about its solution vividly , the fact that your reader already knows the murderer 's identity will matter very little . |
| 11 | This woman has come from far away to write about your people . |
| 12 | And , if Holly 's too boring for that , perhaps the best approach would be to write about his impact on others . |
| 13 | He found the time to write about his travels when he was a prisoner-of-war years after his great journey through the Hindu Kush , the Pamirs , Kashgar , Yarkand and the Gobi Desert to reach Beijing in search of trade in 1275 . |
| 14 | Dostoevsky had come to a very similar conclusion when he came to write about his four years of penal servitude in Siberia : ‘ I felt that work might be the saving of me , might build my health , my body . ’ |
| 15 | Every punishing sense she possessed told her that he was going to write about his wife . |
| 16 | he could be deliberately trying to write about his life and that 's the way he sees it |
| 17 | In this book Linda Sireling writes about its significance in Judaism , and in her life . |
| 18 | She writes about her country home : ‘ The old toad is rolling his drum down at the foot of the hill , and the crunch , crunch of the cows is near to my window over the barbecue . |
| 19 | Lawrence had it , and more recently Vic Allen in his history of the Left 's rise in the National Union of Mineworkers , The Militancy of the British Miners ( Moor Press , 1981 ) writes about his attachment to these men . |
| 20 | Instead he writes about his geraniums . |
| 21 | ‘ Peter Mayle , you know the man who writes about his life in Provence , says that the best starter in the world is strips of foie gras , lightly fried in butter and dropped into a well-dressed salad . ’ |
| 22 | This sensibility for integrating aspects of contemplative with active life is also manifest in the Livre de Seyntz Medecines written by Henry Duke of Lancaster ; in it he writes about his own sense of that mortal sin for which Christ the healer supplies remedies , having beaten death in that tournament where he " turned our sorrow into joy and overcame death with death " . |
| 23 | Sometimes he writes about his native Ireland , sometimes he does n't — but that is not the point . |
| 24 | Dr DAVID FORD of the ‘ Aquarian ’ Advisory Service writes about your free gift and offers hints and tips for its use . |
| 25 | She came to North Yorkshire from London with her husband and was moved to write after his death . |
| 26 | The waitress looks at her pen , as if willing it to write of its own accord . |
| 27 | Beata Bishop in her book A Time to Heal , which describes her experience of cancer and how she ultimately cured it by using alternative healing methods , writes of her first experience of conventional surgery . |
| 28 | Books make the ideal Christmas present , and among those currently in stock are Muriel Spark 's autobiography Curriculum Vitae , in which she writes of her childhood in Edinburgh and the people and places which have influenced her work — including the original Miss Brodie ; and Alisdair Gray 's new novel Poor Things , a Frankenstein-inspired tale which has been described as his best work yet . |
| 29 | But hers is not a detached examination — she writes of her belief that ‘ action makes a difference ’ and outlines some of the possible practical steps that can be taken as a result of her ( and others ' ) analysis . |
| 30 | In his notes Fedin writes of his heroine : ‘ She is somehow reconciled , and of course she would never go off anywhere for good . |