Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] write in the " in BNC.

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1 Two years later we find Datini himself writing in the same vein to one of his partners in Spain , Cristofano di Bartolo , whom he wished to persuade to come home .
2 François de Callières , the French diplomat who wrote in the 1690s the best-known diplomatic manual of the period , pointed out that the cities of Bologna and Ferrara , now incorporated in the papal state , still sent " diplomatic deputations " to the pope and that in Spanish-ruled Sicily Messina , until the rising of 1674 there , had been able to send similar deputations to Madrid ; but he rightly saw these as unimportant hangovers from the past .
3 The French family , de Jussieu , had a great interest in botany and of two wild tomatoes , named by Miller Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium and L. peruvianum he wrote in the Dictionary :
4 Cockle Button , Cockle Ben , a children 's book he wrote in the 1930s , has remarkably good illustrations .
5 In using Brooke-Rose 's discussion of poetic metaphor as the basis for an analysis of how this figure works in novels she wrote in the 1960s , I am not suggesting that there is a necessary relation , historical or logical , between them .
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