Example sentences of "down and wrote a " in BNC.

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1 Having , as I say , abandoned everything he had done , he sat down and wrote a six-part novel within a year which included a twenty-six day break in which he threw together and dictated The Gambler , itself not a small book nor a negligible one , to satisfy the terms of a contract he had made with a shyster publisher .
2 As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away .
3 WHILE HE WAS STILL FEELING THE BRUISES FROM THE HANDLEBARS , Nigel sat down and wrote a story called ‘ The Illegal Divorce , .
4 His plan was endorsed ; he then sat down and wrote a letter to the Director of Education in Bath Street ; and that gentleman 's reply was positive .
5 Finally , he sat down and wrote a long letter to Sybil Vane .
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