Example sentences of "[was/were] write at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those words , just quoted , were written at the end of March , not from Basle , but from Lugano , and it was in Lugano that the new plans for the book had been translated into this continuous draft . |
| 2 | At a thanksgiving service her second in command was writing at the top of the steps for one of the leaders to arrive . |
| 3 | Canadians say that the letter , whose existence has not previously been revealed , was written at the insistence of the Americans . |
| 4 | Haroun and the Sea of Stories , a novel of great charm , was written at the suggestion of his son . |
| 5 | By a curious twist of fate , Sartre 's preface to Aden Arabie , Nizan 's account of his own journey to a third world colonial country in 1926–27 , a journey which Sartre pinpoints as the moment when their student friendship began to end , was written at the height of a momentous third-world revolutionary struggle . |
| 6 | Conrad 's Heart of Darkness is the first English modernist novel , it was written at the break of the century , a time of great change and movement ( for example , electricity , airplanes , telephone were all invented , democracy and freud emerged . ) |