Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [was/were] write [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The header contains information about the writer ( e.g. sex , age , handedness etc ) , the date the sample was collected , the style of writing used ( e.g. lower case , upper case , cursive ) , and one or more sentences indicating the script which was written by the subject . |
| 2 | I was writing to my MP who was writing to the Secretary of State who was writing to the High Commisioner and it just went on . |
| 3 | Er Mike said in his autobiography that when they got the play and converted it to film , they changed the age of the character for a start , cos in the play it was written in the late fifties by Bill and it was written for a man approaching his forties . |
| 4 | We did have hopes of being re-equipped for this Tripoli show , ’ — by coincidence he was writing on the very day Tripoli fell — ‘ but they did n't materialise , so we shall have to seek the bubble reputation elsewhere . |
| 5 | I was writing to my MP who was writing to the Secretary of State who was writing to the High Commisioner and it just went on . |
| 6 | Trevelyan wrote during the course of the , of the , of the war , and it was of course a book which was read by enormous numbers of people erm particularly after the end of the war , and he was of course the nephew of erm Macaulay , and therefore he 's in line with another of the great books on English history which were written in the middle of the nineteenth century , Macaulay 's A History of England , which also had as many sales as Trevelyan 's . |