Example sentences of "he wrote to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sure it was an hour-long commercial , ’ he wrote to Batty , commiserating . |
| 2 | Fired with enthusiasm he wrote to Theo : ‘ Experience has shown that people who walk in the darkness … like the miners in the black coal mines , for instance , are very impressed by the works of the Gospel , and believe them , too . ’ |
| 3 | He wrote to Theo , " I hope you are not a " Van Gogh " . |
| 4 | In 1955 he wrote to Philip Mairet , to whom he had dedicated Notes towards the Definition of Culture , stressing that he saw ritual as an essential element in life . |
| 5 | Six papers had been accepted for publication during his first Oxford year , but he was as little pleased with them as with The Woodland Life : ‘ I am impatient to get to Lincoln College ’ he wrote to Hooton . |
| 6 | He wrote to Richardson : |
| 7 | ‘ If I go , ’ he wrote to Poole , ‘ farewell Philosophy ! |
| 8 | ‘ I am frightened at not hearing from Cruikshanks , ’ he wrote to Poole at the beginning of November . |
| 9 | As soon as he got to Aix he wrote to Chamberlain : ‘ I think in the long view it is all to the good that the Government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared up before we come in . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Dear Fudge , ’ he wrote to Hunt , ‘ by this time the frightful fact will have dawned upon you that Plastercast and I are really coming out to see you . |
| 11 | The duke 's attitude is made plain in a letter which he wrote to Mungo Graeme of Gorthie in 1737 when asked to obtain a church for a brother of a Graham laird , who was one of the most active members of the Montrose interest . |
| 12 | He wrote to Law to protest when he was offered only an under secretaryship. pointing out that he had only accepted the Chairmanship because of the offer of a cabinet post . |
| 13 | As he wrote to Nora : |
| 14 | Branwell wanted to be a writer , so he wrote to writers ; but not many of them wrote back . |
| 15 | In 1790 a great meeting of tanners held in London elected him to speak for them to the prime minister , William Pitt , concerning the distressed state of the tanning trade ; and in 1793 he wrote to parliament on behalf of Bristol tanners to suggest remedies for the scarcity of the oak bark used in tanning . |
| 16 | He wrote to Greece : I look forward to the day when by the Eastern and Western Emperors together , this enemy nation will be expelled from the church of Christ and Christianity will be avenged . |
| 17 | ‘ I wish other men of science would show themselves as patriotic in their views as yourself , ’ he wrote to Gould in 1839 . |
| 18 | In September of that year he wrote to Pepys , Locke and other friends accusing them of being atheists or Catholics , and of trying to embroil him with women . |
| 19 | ‘ My own empirical self is becoming more important , ’ he wrote to Barfield , ‘ and this is exactly the opposite of self-love . ’ |
| 20 | Warmed with wine and the festive spirit he wrote to Zborowski , now back in Paris : |
| 21 | His first day at sea he wrote to Oliver Bernard who occupied Minton 's share of 37 Hamilton Terrace during his absence : |
| 22 | Almost every letter he wrote to Hanns has a different affectionate greeting . |
| 23 | While preparing Soldier 's Tale he wrote to Hanns describing a party where |
| 24 | He wrote to Hanns about the time when wigs had been needed for Dulcie 's ballet Fête galante , and one of the part-time dancers in the Ballet Club , a hairdresser by trade , offered to make them , from papier-mâché . |
| 25 | But he wrote to Hanns ‘ Do n't worry about conditions here : although they can be grim , I 've known them a lot grimmer in S.A. ’ He declared that ‘ being new in London is a full time job ’ and described the town rhapsodically as |
| 26 | He described plays and revues he had seen , but most of what he wrote to Hanns was about the ballet . |
| 27 | The postcard he wrote to Hanns at the end of the tour reveals John plunged into deepest gloom : ‘ My dear — The past weeks have been like an unforgettable nightmare . |
| 28 | At the same time he wrote to Phillips offering him advice that would help him avoid trickery ( Phillips ignored this advice ) . |
| 29 | John had been moved to Norfolk and promoted to Corporal and he wrote to Anne nearly every day , loving letters which helped to make her grief for her mother more bearable . |
| 30 | Lewis responded so warmly to Tolkien 's imagined world because , as he wrote to Arthur Greeves , ‘ he is , in one part of him , what we were . ’ |