Example sentences of "had written a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose you had written a function called FN_discount to calculate the discount price from the normal retail price . |
| 2 | In fact , it had been Dr Kemp who had written a reference for her when she 'd changed jobs . |
| 3 | She had written a receipt for the month 's rent for the garage , which he had proffered at the same time , and had received the book with a watery smile . |
| 4 | Some three weeks after the first anniversary of her husband 's death , she telephoned saying , ‘ Thank you for your letter ’ ( this being the one I had written a year earlier ) . |
| 5 | Asking why , were told the Standard had written a story on ‘ a dominatrix club I 'm a member of ’ , in which they 'd described the Penthouse Pet as ‘ plump ’ . |
| 6 | What I did n't know was that a few months before we started to work together she had written a proposal to the Thai government to start a ‘ machine knitting project ’ in one of her districts . |
| 7 | ‘ He said he had written a document which would explain everything — all his views on negotiations . |
| 8 | She said Mr Mandela told them that he had written a document setting out his views on negotiations , the prospect of which President de Klerk has been promoting since well before the National Party returned to power in the 6 September elections . |
| 9 | ‘ On the contrary , he said advertisements had their good points ; he had written a poem about Steyr automobiles and been given a car for it . |
| 10 | Randolph Henry Ash had written a poem purporting to be spoken by a Digger in Putney . |
| 11 | Although her reports usually arrived by post , she brought them along in person on one occasion , because she had written a poem and wondered if it was worthy of publication . |
| 12 | This was a momentary memory-lapse , as Eliot himself had written a poem on the saint , entitled ‘ The Love Song of St Sebastian ’ , the text of which was in the notebook given to John Quinn and now in the Berg Collection , New York . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , I had written a play which was performed within the house and was enjoyed by all concerned in it . |
| 14 | They had met once while on holiday , and not only was Dustin Hoffman a great fan of Sting , but he had written a song which they performed together . |
| 15 | Lord Vansittart , a former Foreign Office official , had written a pamphlet entitled Black Record blaming the Germans for a record of barbarism going back to the era of the Roman Empire . |
| 16 | A twelve-year-old schoolgirl had written a science fiction story , ‘ The White City ’ , which read like a thinly veiled satire on Romanian reality : |
| 17 | He was already depressed about losing his £200,000-a-year job and had written a suicide note to his wife five days before the tragedy . |
| 18 | All Marr really knew was that Morrissey had written a book about The New York Dolls and was quite prepared to spend the next hour talking about them if nothing else was to stem from the meeting . |
| 19 | Then he told himself that he was a nut who had written a book in her garage , and that he had no right to intrude . |
| 20 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
| 21 | While playing in Pittsburgh , Muni had met Judge M. A. Musmanno , who had written a book on the murder in 1929 of a miner 's leader and of the subsequent charges against policemen . |
| 22 | The Membership List revealed he 'd been in his present parish for six years , was unmarried , had written a book , The Railways of Norfolk , 1890 to 1940 , published by Jarrolds , and was , in addition to being Vicar of St Clements Bestwick , chaplain to the Sisters of St Sylvester , East Soken , near Diss . |
| 23 | Dr Howe had written a book on drama . |
| 24 | 2–9 William Allan of Sunderland , a poet of no mean rank , had written a drama " Ian Vor " the chief incidents of which are made to occur at Dunyveg in Islay in 1807 . |
| 25 | ‘ If I had written a script for myself I would n't have changed a thing ’ , he said . |
| 26 | At the time Gamal had written a number of plays but none of them had yet actually been produced . |
| 27 | The student leaders had written a statement accusing the government of practising ‘ state terrorism ’ and comparing it unfavourably with the white minority rulers of South Africa . |
| 28 | To Warnie , he had written a letter fall of the gravest admonitions , designed to make him think carefully about what he was committing himself to . |
| 29 | The storm over the ‘ Squidgy ’ tapes kept the pressure on their marriage , and the paperback version of Morton 's book was published last month with a new chapter which alleged Prince Philip had written a letter to Diana in June . |
| 30 | Software602 sales manager Jan Muhlfeit said that the teenagers , all aged between 16 and 18 , had written a letter to the Alliance apologising for their actions — they claimed they did not know that they were doing anything wrong . |