Example sentences of "he wrote a [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Among other things , Kaplan , the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of the American financial magazine Institutional Investor , in an authority on the paintings of René Magritte ( on whom he wrote a monograph in 1982 ) , an active trustee of carnegie Hall , and a generous patron of the arts in New York . |
| 2 | With his veterinary colleague George Ingram , he wrote A Monograph on Johne 's Disease of cattle ( 1913 ) . |
| 3 | He intended to fight ; and , to a much greater extent than Asquith had done , he wrote a manifesto and not a letter : |
| 4 | ‘ He wrote a story , with pictures to back it up , about an American general supposedly handing over documents to a beautiful KGB agent on Hamburg 's Kennedy Bridge . |
| 5 | They 'd write a poem for her about my greatest fear , I said I remember last year there was a boy called Ali and he wrote a story about a poem about this bird and cos he was really scared of that and so I said I do n't suppose any of you will write about being scared of me except perhaps Adine ! |
| 6 | In his country , he wrote a year ago , formally accepting a West German peace prize , ‘ socialism … was transformed long ago into just an ordinary truncheon used by certain cynical , parvenu bureaucrats to bludgeon their liberal-minded fellow-citizens from morning till night , labelling them ‘ enemies of socialism ’ and ‘ anti-socialist forces ’ ' . |
| 7 | Then he wrote a novel and sent it to a magazine which rejected it . |
| 8 | ‘ He wrote a novel about a waxworks a few years ago . |
| 9 | He wrote a cheque and Josh okayed it with the bank — phoned Hnatiuk , the manager , at home . ’ |
| 10 | But when he wrote a cheque to pay his poll tax bill it was five pence short of the £122.97p owed to Suffolk Coastal Council . |
| 11 | Kilvert 's clerical career was entirely undistinguished , and although he wrote a quantity of verse and made a collection of Radnorshire folklore , none of his writings , except trivia , was published in his lifetime . |
| 12 | He wrote a poem about his friend Francis Thompson , and in it there are many echoes of his own sad youth in which he must have wondered often if his mind would flower too late for good . |
| 13 | He wrote a poem , ‘ The Jew ’ , and a play , ‘ Moses ’ , published in a pamphlet of that title shortly before he crossed the Channel with the King 's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in June 1916 . |
| 14 | WAITING for the fate of Fulham 's football ground to be determined proved too much for one fan so he wrote a poem to Chairman George Younger . |
| 15 | In 1982 , two days before he died , he wrote a document in his own handwriting headed ‘ My Will by Percy Winterbone ’ but did not sign his name at the foot of the document . |
| 16 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 17 | Its base at Amboyna was overrun in 1623 and some of its garrison tortured to death in an episode Dryden reckoned would still be remembered when he wrote a play about it in a period of anti-Dutch feeling 50 years later . |
| 18 | His campaign was marked by an insistence that the people , Ludu , formed the nation ( he wrote a play called The People Win Through ) . |
| 19 | He wrote a play about love in 1595 . |
| 20 | ‘ He wrote a play in the Fifties called Royal Assent , about Thomas , Earl of Stratford , who was Charles I 's Prime Minister . |
| 21 | According to UnixWorld , he wrote a memo to employees about the COSE announcement , which ignored his existence , saying : ‘ Many of us watched Sun compete with Apollo using slander and lies . |
| 22 | In 1842 he wrote a prologue for Westland Marston 's play , The Patrician 's Daughter , and in 1844 contributed a poem on religious intolerance , ‘ A Word in Season ’ , to an annual , The Keepsake , edited by Lady Blessington . |
| 23 | He wrote a Prologue and ‘ The Song of the Wreck ’ for Wilkie Collins 's The Lighthouse , 1855 , and a Prologue for the same author 's The Frozen Deep , 1856 . |
| 24 | The pop singer , Morrissey , was so astounded to discover that some girls ' breasts are bigger than others that he wrote a song about it . |
| 25 | He wrote a guitar concerto for John Williams , amongst other things . |
| 26 | Lewis meanwhile moved on to the Daily Mail , where till 1930 he wrote a column called ‘ At the Sign of the Blue Moon ’ . |
| 27 | In conjunction with K. C. Dunham he wrote a memoir on Northern Skye . |
| 28 | Of him he wrote a memoir , The Life of a Boy ( 1947 ) . |
| 29 | Then , he wrote a West End musical based on his aunt 's Remembering Judi and it transferred to Broadway , with Nina Kenyon making an impressive singing debut in her original role , finally outgrossing everything written by Andrew Lloyd Webber . |
| 30 | He wanted to look at the contract and check it out and really , with no trouble at all — I think he wrote a couple of letters and said that Pitt was not acting in the capacity as manager that David required and that was that . ’ |