Example sentences of "[vb past] write a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fourth book featured a scene in which a man planned to write a letter to his Father and Mother telling them of his new-found happiness , but he never could bring himself to write the letter . |
| 2 | I filled a notebook with names and stories about the Revolution and planned to write a book in which all my favourites would appear . |
| 3 | He said he planned to write a book about the 1989 protests and that he had no plans to go overseas , as several other released political prisoners have done . |
| 4 | I tried to write a speech last year and I made a right mess of it , so this year I 'm gon na speak from the heart , because I might get a boo like the leader of the council here , I install water meters . |
| 5 | Er they tried to write a rider to bypass it completely , but I do n't know whether that is sound . |
| 6 | This involved writing a sentence on the board , and getting the children to form similar sentences . |
| 7 | When , however , Origen himself came to write a commentary on Matthew 19 : 12 he strenuously opposed a literal exegesis . |
| 8 | I only took out the palace because I knew I 'd given I 'd written a cheque for forty |
| 9 | I was ashamed that I 'd written a reference for him when he applied for that job . |
| 10 | I 'd promised myself not even to think about Julie Burchill again , let alone mention her ( yeah , right on , Camille , we 're rootin' for ya ) , but I must say that I agree with her that the Best of Young British list would have improved by the addition of an American and someone who 'd written a non-fiction book about football . |
| 11 | He 'd written a book . ‘ |
| 12 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 13 | Mrs Smith 's family say he 'd written a letter threatening her and he should have been detained . |
| 14 | For six months he was a sub-editor , but then began to write a column for the paper called ‘ By the Way ’ . |
| 15 | Jannie sat down at one corner of the great kitchen table and began to write a shopping list . |
| 16 | The evening meal had been re-scheduled for 8.30 p.m. ; and with time to spare , after throwing his own large hold-all on to the counterpane of his single bed , Ashenden joined a few of the other tourists in the Residents ' Lounge , where he took some sheets of the hotel 's own note-paper , and began to write a letter . |
| 17 | She began to write a journal of her tours ( apparently from notes made during her journeys ) in 1702 . |
| 18 | Unknown to Dana , I began writing a series of free-verse poems about the pictures . |
| 19 | Example 2 : Four boys decided to write a story together . |
| 20 | Fourteen years later , in the autumn of 1987 , Nigel Smith decided to write a book about the experiences of his father-in-law , Vic Stevens . |
| 21 | They decided to write a letter to Angel Clare , to inform him of the dangerous situation his wife was in . |
| 22 | Zenith had seen Acme 's program in use and decided to write a program to fulfil the same purpose , that is , to monitor drug dosages . |
| 23 | Dixon reports for example difficulties in obtaining the information he needed to write a grammar of Dyirbal . |
| 24 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 25 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 26 | This is not the case , though , if the proposed subject is outside the catchment area of school and university examinations , as Terry Lovell discovered when she offered to write a book on Gissing for a leftwing series , which had asked for one on Jane Austen . |
| 27 | ( What hand or eye , we may well ask , could afford to gestate such a thing for the six to nine months Shakespeare usually took to write a play ? |
| 28 | He meant to write a book about it . |
| 29 | Six days of luxury on the Royal Scotsman ( which included some steam haulage and as many glasses of Domaine des Berthiers as the liver would stand ) at the end of the decade meant writing a cheque for £2,880 . |
| 30 | Nevertheless Mandeville Roe , an ex-BF member , did write a book on the Corporate State in Italy , and together with Alexander Raven Thomson provided the chief source of such ideas in the BUF . |