Example sentences of "wrote to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tim sprang to public prominence when personal letters he wrote to the Princess were stolen from her briefcase and offered for sale to a tabloid newspaper , which promptly handed them over to Scotland Yard . |
| 2 | An aide sent the letter to divorced mother-of-three Mary Hopkins , 49 , after she wrote to the Princess giving advice on their marital problems . |
| 3 | Two schools later ( his parents having moved house ) the boy was ill , and his then head wrote to the consultant treating him that he ‘ had previously attended two schools , having transferred from the first because of ‘ transitory emotional difficulties ’ ( Ed . |
| 4 | I wrote to the editors of all the major newspapers and television channels asking them to cover the anniversary . |
| 5 | In February 1772 Leopold wrote to the publisher J. G. I. Breitkopf in Leipzig offering some of his son 's compositions for publication . |
| 6 | The companies wrote to the Clerk to the Commissioners on 31 January 1991 , stating their intention to apply for a 90-day extension at the next meeting , explaining why they would not be able to comply with the precepts in the 50-day time limit . |
| 7 | In 1328–9 the bishop of Exeter , John Grandison [ q.v. ] , wrote to the prior of Winchester to obtain for Witney payment of a daily corrody and yearly pension due to him and in arrears . |
| 8 | In September Hayhurst wrote to the Goldsmiths to complain that his salary was several quarters in arrear . |
| 9 | In August , however , he wrote to the Goldsmiths : |
| 10 | In January 1795 Hoyle wrote to the Goldsmiths to say that the windows in the Schoolhouse needed repairing , and that the cost was estimated to be £16 . |
| 11 | Towards the end of 1849 Gurney wrote to the Goldsmiths to request £200 " to enable him to clear off his debts and leave some money for general purposes " ; he was granted £300 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Rod Richards , Tory MP for Clwyd North West , yesterday wrote to the Ambassador requesting the meeting , at which he also wishes to be present . |
| 15 | So on 13 December 1230 Henry III wrote to the warden of Bere Forest : |
| 16 | So I wrote to the Warden of Spurn Bird Observatory and booked myself in for a night . |
| 17 | Mr. James Bayley , a Unitarian Minister from Heaviley , wrote to the Headmaster to object to the teaching of the Thiry-nine Articles of the Church of England . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds on Saturday , apparently , and no one seems quite sure whether the resignation dates from the day the letter was received or the date the warrant is signed by the Chancellor . |
| 20 | In February 1990 , while I was still Minister for Housing , I wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer : ‘ There must be a danger now of a demand squeeze turning into a real threat to supply-side confidence . |
| 21 | Well they wrote to the Chief Constable |
| 22 | We had snow from London to the Cotswolds and then it turned soft [ he wrote to the Davidsons ] . |
| 23 | In early summer 1984 , [ MS wrote to the organisers of the 77 conversion and specialist information technology Advanced Courses running in 1983–84 ( see Appendix [ I ) . |
| 24 | She wrote to the organisers : ‘ If it were in your mind to approach any B-division celebrities , I should say I shall be taking Jeffrey with me . ’ |
| 25 | Truro MP Matthew Taylor wrote to the Government asking for action under the Housing Defects Acts of 1984 and 1985 . |
| 26 | Couple of points that were made in relation to this particular report was the backing by the employee side , erm , to the wages board initiative that took when we wrote to the government saying that we felt that the abolition of the wages board was not in the best interests erm , of the people of Lincolnshire . |
| 27 | For three years , members of the Group wrote to the Benin Government asking that Yacoubou be released . |
| 28 | We wrote to the minister , William Waldegrave , in the autumn of 1986 requesting the spotlisting of Bracken House — in our view ( shared by the Thirties Society ) one of the most remarkable post-war buildings in London . |
| 29 | On 23 March 1983 the Prime Minister , Mrs Thatcher , wrote to the Minister of Health to say that she had ‘ spent nearly an hour seeing representatives of the Medical Committee and nursing staff at Friern Hospital ’ at her constituency surgery two weeks previously . |
| 30 | We put immense pressure on them , we tried everything we could , we raised it with the Transport Users consultative committee at National Level , we wrote to the minister and all kinds of and they did n't budge at all , you would n't think they were a public body . |