Example sentences of "wrote a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 2 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 3 | Thomas Good [ q.v. ] , master of Balliol , thought him ‘ one of the most pious ingenious men that ever I was acquainted with ’ , while to the anonymous friend who wrote a preface to A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation , he was ‘ a man of a cheerful and sprightly Temper … very affable and pleasant in his Conversation ’ , although he was so full of his vision of God 's love and man 's felicity that ‘ those that would converse with him , were forced to endure some discourse upon these subjects , whether they had any sense of Religion , or not . ’ |
| 4 | His great-grandfather , Gregory of Langres , had been a correspondent of Avitus of Vienne , and the bishop of Tours himself wrote a preface to the Masses of Sidonius . |
| 5 | Jack wrote a poem to Warnie , urging him not to look back out of the car window as it hurtled away , leaving their childhood behind them . |
| 6 | WAITING for the fate of Fulham 's football ground to be determined proved too much for one fan so he wrote a poem to Chairman George Younger . |
| 7 | Sarah Burge was a Barnardo child , who was photographed in eighteen eighty three — in fact we 've just passed the centenary , I realize , of this occasion — at eight years old , and I 've seen the photograph and it was , of course , used for fund raising purposes , but I wrote a poem to this obviously long dead girl . |
| 8 | One morning I received a report on the terms of reference for the Service-wide performance review and wrote a minute to its author stressing the need to define the concept of work . |
| 9 | Some twenty years ago I wrote a guidebook to the walks on and around the three peaks of Ingleborough , Penyghent and Whernside in Upper Ribblesdale , supplementing the text with over two hundred pen-and-ink drawings . |
| 10 | Chalmers wrote a foreword to the report of the survey , expressing his confidence : |
| 11 | She wrote a memorial to his brother George , now Prince Regent , Nelson 's friend , reminding him of the codicil which the national hero had made to his will leaving her and Horatia to the nation , and asking for it to be recognized in some tangible form . |
| 12 | According to UnixWorld , he wrote a memo to employees about the COSE announcement , which ignored his existence , saying : ‘ Many of us watched Sun compete with Apollo using slander and lies . |
| 13 | It is small wonder that Hilton wrote a sequel to Scale 1 . |
| 14 | On 7 July Amedeo wrote a card to his mother telling her , somewhat cruelly , that as Italy was now in the war , he had thought that he might be called back for military service , even though he was an invalid and had felt a slight desire to return to Italy . |
| 15 | He even wrote a paper to that effect . |
| 16 | When he wrote a letter to the college newspaper criticising the compulsory chapels and boring sermons , he was expelled . |
| 17 | The members wrote a letter to the authorities protesting at the increases in the cost of living , which had exacerbated problems of nutrition , health and transport . |
| 18 | There must have been rumours of the dastardly deed at the hall as early as 1578 , for it was in that year that Sir Henry Knyvett ( another of Darrel 's antagonists ) wrote a letter to Sir John at Longleat , asking him to search out Mr Bonham and to enquire how many children his sister had and what had become of them . |
| 19 | The Roman Catholics were particularly vulnerable , yet impossible to dislodge or ignore , and when Cardinal Hinsley wrote a letter to The Times in November 1942 , Churchill cut it out , pasted it to a piece of cardboard and sent it to Butler with the cheerful note : ‘ There you are , fixed , old cock . ’ |
| 20 | He wrote a letter to the Library Association Record asking a few basic questions : |
| 21 | After the 1963 Walker Cup , Michael Bonallack and Joe Carr wrote a letter to Jack Nicklaus nominating me to caddie for him at Lytham . |
| 22 | He wrote a letter to his friend and former pupil Benedetto Castelli in which he discussed the Bible , especially the passage that stated that Joshua had commanded the Sun to stand still , a fact that would have proved that the Sun must previously have been moving , as Aristotle and Ptolemy had said . |
| 23 | Thirty or 40 years ago someone wrote a letter to Nature after tracking down its origin . |
| 24 | Dr Peter Macdonald , the president of the Yorkshire branch of the British Medical Association , wrote a letter to the British Medical Journal as far back as 1932 . |
| 25 | Recently I wrote a letter to every car manufacturer throughout the world , offering advice on improving car seats . |
| 26 | Sir , — When Malcolm Rifkind was made Minister of Transport I wrote a letter to him congratulating him on his appointment , expressing the hope that he would be a success in his job and asking him to instruct his Civil Servants to concentrate their efforts more on the railways of this country rather than on the roads . |
| 27 | Later the European Athletic Association wrote a letter to the British team management reprimanding me for wearing the flag on the rostrum and covering my tracksuit . |
| 28 | However , on the 13th I wrote a letter to my parents , which I had absolutely no intention of sending . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In 1949 , Jean Cocteau , the poet , dramatist and film director , wrote a letter to the American people when returning on a plane from New York to France . |