Example sentences of "wrote [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ special areas ’ legislation of the prewar national coalition government stemmed partly from a series of unsigned articles — ‘ Places without a Future ’ — which he wrote for The Times in 1934 .
2 He wrote in the Times : ‘ Last night in Sheffield , image throttled intellect and a quiet voice in every reporter present whispered that there was something disgusting about the occasion .
3 Philip French wrote in The Times , ‘ Once again , the considerable talent of Michael Crawford is squandered on feeble material , and he is excusably incapable of convincing us of the irresistible attraction of an insipid newcomer called Genevieve Gilles , who delivers her lines as if reading them from the small print of an oculist 's chart ( from which they might well have derived ) .
4 Her mother was so worried she wrote to The Times asking , ‘ Is it fair for any human being , regardless of circumstances , to be treated in this way ? ’
5 ‘ This going round the world is a very easy and almost imperceptible business ; there is no difficulty about it ’ , he wrote to The Times from a ship in the middle of the Pacific in November 1872 .
6 On the day after the debate , Saturday , 19th February , ‘ Habitans in Sicco ’ wrote to The Times from what he called ‘ Broad Phylactery ’ , to ridicule the classical attitudes of the Opposition , and said that he had lived in a Broad Sanctuary house for three years and found that it possessed ‘ all the comforts and conveniences of any house in London ’ .
7 Ruskin wrote to The Times on ‘ The Turner Gallery ’ , the day after Freeman 's letter and , as a postscript , said : ‘ I wish the writer of the admirable and exhaustive letter which appeared in your columns yesterday on the subject of Mr Scott 's design for the Foreign Office would allow me to know his name ’ .
8 Lord Palumbo , the current Chairman , sprang to the defence of arm's-length funding : institutions such as his own , he wrote to The Times , ‘ are a countervailing force to the centralisation of decision-making of government ’ .
9 Five former chairmen of the Arts Council , Lord Cottesloe ( 1960–65 ) , Lord Goodman ( 1965–72 ) , Lord Gibson ( 1972–77 ) , Sir Kenneth Robinson ( 1977–82 ) and Lord Rees–Mogg ( 1982–89 ) also wrote to The Times : ‘ It has been and remains the cardinal principle of the Arts Council since its formation , that the arts should be immunised from political control ’ .
10 Steel-Maitland wrote to The Times in 1913 to accuse the Liberals of corrupt practices at the Wick Burghs by-election , and Sanders noted that at Taunton they had given away half-crowns wrapped in Liberal leaflets ; both contests went against the trend , so there may be some truth in the allegations .
11 On the publication of Macmillan 's memoirs Mr Humphrey Berkeley wrote to The Times to complain about this as being a ‘ gross constitutional impropriety ’ .
12 Our reporter , Paul Fizpatrick , wrote at the time : ‘ Smith , perhaps too theatrically , fell as if poleaxed . ’
13 The British Ambassador , Sir Oliver Franks , wrote at the time .
14 As we wrote at the time :
15 As I wrote at the time , though the error may appear small , any error is significant given the close tolerances of FI cars .
16 Eion Young wrote at the time that Lauda had become human , and thus vulnerable , that victory was no longer his consuming goal , and he is right : one comes out of an inferno , as Niki had , with a renewed appreciation of the value of life .
17 I see that an article I wrote at the time entitled ‘ What should we say to Germany ? ’ reflected this point of view , though with less explicitness .
18 Quite honestly , as I wrote at the time , ‘ if my waters could have broken , they would have broken ’ .
19 As I wrote at the time , I was not surprised .
20 Sherlock wrote at the time of the calling of the Convention , " there are no Contentions so fierce as those about Religion …
21 Winston Churchill , with extraordinary perspicacity , wrote at the time :
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