Example sentences of "wrote to the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , when Richard himself wrote to the Calais garrison on 28 June , setting out his title , his claim was vague to the point of invisibility . |
| 2 | Certainly , when Richard himself wrote to the Calais garrison on 28 June , setting out his title , his claim was vague to the point of invisibility . |
| 3 | Earlier this month , Michael Heseltine , the trade and industry minister , wrote to the EC commission to ask it to speed up its examination of Germany 's packaging law . |
| 4 | We had snow from London to the Cotswolds and then it turned soft [ he wrote to the Davidsons ] . |
| 5 | For three years , members of the Group wrote to the Benin Government asking that Yacoubou be released . |
| 6 | He wrote to the NME : ‘ They are the victims of bathos , and life is mimicking the ultimate economic distinction in the this absurd scene : the rich and the poor , the landed and the lost , the Royal Family — regal and splendid — and The Wedding Present , recently starved , surviving on cheese sandwiches . ’ |
| 7 | He wrote to the Lord Treasurer Rochester begging for appointment to Exeter in preference to Bristol , as the bishopric of Exeter yielded better stipends with which to pay off family debts . |
| 8 | Even Gould wrote to the Broad Street household three days after the event . |
| 9 | Two weeks later he wrote to the Petrograd Soviet sketching out his vision of peace from below : ‘ a great International of the democracies , organised as a parliament of the world and strong in the legislatures of every nation … . |
| 10 | So I wrote to the London Marathon office . |
| 11 | Officials in the Ministry wrote to the BEA for the ‘ facts for next year 's campaign ’ against the Treasury , and were thought by the BEA officials ‘ quite genuinely to be trying to fight our battle ’ . |
| 12 | We duly wrote to the CAA , asking them to confirm or deny this practice . |
| 13 | In June 1981 the junior transport wrote to the West Midlands ‘ I am satisfied with the nature and standard of the repair work . ’ |
| 14 | Since neither drug was available commercially , I wrote to the Lederle Laboratories and to the Burroughs Wellcome Company for a supply of methotrexate and 6-MP , respectively . |
| 15 | Intrigued , I wrote to the US Navy Department and received in reply a copy of Ensign Smith 's report on the operation . |
| 16 | In January 1990 , Ada wrote to the US Defence Secretary , Dick Cheney , reiterating his call for the USA to return the Guam Naval Air Station to civilian use in the light of US announcements of future base closures elsewhere . |
| 17 | So , it came as something of a disappointment when a Ms Mel Chevannes , who ran a black supplementary school in the West Midlands , wrote to the Wolverhampton Express and Star to protest at my testing ‘ hypotheses that black people are ‘ happy-go-lucky or very physical in their outlook ’ ’ and that my aims were to ‘ damage even further the life chances of black children ’ ( 25 June 1980 ) . |
| 18 | I wrote to the Sunday Correspondent criticising a claim in their first issue that the recent flattening in the rise of the monthly AIDS figures is due to the Government 's propaganda campaign of 1986 . |
| 19 | In 1648 he wrote to the Westminster Assembly , criticizing the Presbyterian system it had devised , but the only result was the suspension of his augmentation at Winchester . |
| 20 | The government subsequently wrote to the IMF undertaking to resume interest payments to Western government creditors . |
| 21 | George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’ |
| 22 | But the organisation 's president , Mr Sam Nujoma , wrote to the UN secretary-general to say his men would stay north of the 16th parallel . |
| 23 | In an effort to retain the goodwill of supporters , Chapman wrote to the Northampton Daily Echo : |
| 24 | In November 1966 the NCDAD wrote to the DES in response to its draft memorandum on the government and academic organization of the polytechnics : |
| 25 | I wrote to the Northern Ireland representative of the Attorney General on 28th June 1974 , but a reply was not sent to me until August 1st . |
| 26 | He wrote to the CVCP , in fact , explaining that the CNAA would be considering courses ‘ in Education ’ , that it intended to approach the whole question with care , and that although the Council ‘ was not taking the initiative in seeking to extend its work in the field of Education , several colleges of education had made informal approaches which could not be ignored … |
| 27 | We wrote to the Leeds authority at the end of October but no one replied . |
| 28 | In January 1990 the accountants wrote to the Ledingham-Smiths and said that they wished to continue to act , especially with the negotiations for the sale of the business . |
| 29 | Pete Garrett , 54 , wrote to the DSS telling them he was going to stay with a friend in the city — the fifth largest in Britain . |
| 30 | And in 1987 a lady wrote to the Cambridge Evening News that she had heard what sounded like a cuckoo on February 12 . |