Example sentences of "write [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And , if Holly 's too boring for that , perhaps the best approach would be to write about his impact on others . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Every punishing sense she possessed told her that he was going to write about his wife . |
| 6 | he could be deliberately trying to write about his life and that 's the way he sees it |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Instead he writes about his geraniums . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 " . |
| 11 | Sometimes he writes about his native Ireland , sometimes he does n't — but that is not the point . |
| 12 | She came to North Yorkshire from London with her husband and was moved to write after his death . |
| 13 | In his notes Fedin writes of his heroine : ‘ She is somehow reconciled , and of course she would never go off anywhere for good . |
| 14 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 15 | Ali Bacher writes of his ‘ dream come true ’ and President de Klerk registers a goodwill message . |
| 16 | Paris says that he conducted himself here in a typically high-handed manner , whilst the Dunstable annalist writes of his boasting before the king and queen that he had the Welsh in the palm of his hand . |
| 17 | He can honestly claim to have been a righteous servant of God ; in verse 16 he writes of his service being like that of a priest , who bridges the gap between God and man , and who presents a sacrifice to God as part of the priest 's duties and privileges . |
| 18 | Secondly , as part of the same continuing process , he writes above his signature ‘ This is my last will and testament . |
| 19 | As a student at Columbia University , New York — where he took a degree and a doctorate — and subsequently as a teacher of biochemistry at Boston University , he continued to write in his spare time . |
| 20 | Each author has been allowed the freedom to write in his own style and provides a large set of references promoting further study . |
| 21 | But the books a writer fails to write in his adolescence are of a different nature from the books he fails to write once he has announced his profession . |
| 22 | 10 October , 1979 STEPHEN SPENDER , teaching in Lynchburg , Virginia , writes in his journal : ‘ My class , which I took last night , seems irremediable . |
| 23 | You may have heard people speak about the loss of brain cells as we get older but , as Tony Buzan , expert in the working of the human mind , writes in his book Make the Most of Your Mind : |
| 24 | ‘ I have explained both in previous chapters and during our programmes , ’ he writes in his best-selling book which accompanies the series , ‘ that from the yoga viewpoint , all life is sustained by a force which the Yogis have named prana . |
| 25 | Julian Schwinger and Sin-itiro Tomonaga. was responsible 30 years ago for the development of quantum electrodynamics — the first modern relativistic quantum theory — writes in his autobiography of that period that ‘ the ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ How she was able to effect all this ’ , her nephew writes in his Memoir , ‘ is surprising , for she had no separate study to repair to , and most of the work must have been done in the general sitting-room , subject to all kinds of casual interruptions . |
| 27 | When Charles Kingsley writes in his description of the sewer of ‘ the slow sullen rows of oily ripple … sending up … hot breaths of miasma ’ , he is being quite specific ; but in Dickens 's Little Dorrit the word is virtually symbolic of confusion , as the pervasive fog is in Bleak House . |
| 28 | Perhaps the scriptwriter , Beverley Cross , had in mind the Grecian golden nightingales of which W B Yeats writes in his poem ‘ Sailing to Byzantium ’ . |
| 29 | Gustave writes in his Intimate Notebook . |
| 30 | The famous Jalal-zade Mustafa Celebi ( Celalzade Mustafa : d. 975/1567 ) writes in his history of the reign of Selim I , the or that when the Holy Cities came under Ottoman protection with the conquest of Egypt , the Ottoman ulema approached Piri Pasa , mentioned here as the kazasker of the Arab lands , and suggested that kadis be sent from Rum ( that is , in effect , from among the Ottoman ulema ) to the two cities . |