Example sentences of "and wrote a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I arrived home , I sat down at my desk and wrote a letter . |
| 2 | He was of a more literary bent , and wrote a biography of King Louis , as well as a book on ethics and business titled Put Money In My Purse ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Having , as I say , abandoned everything he had done , he sat down and wrote a six-part novel within a year which included a twenty-six day break in which he threw together and dictated The Gambler , itself not a small book nor a negligible one , to satisfy the terms of a contract he had made with a shyster publisher . |
| 5 | In the original version , now lost , of the chapter in which she reads to Raskolnikov the gospel story of the raising of Lazarus , Dostoevsky intended and wrote a head-on debate about Christianity ; but his publishers refused to print it . |
| 6 | But , once he realised that I was a bit apart from them , we started to get on well and wrote a lot together , coming up with new lyrics for ‘ Did You No Wrong ’ and beginning to find cover versions that would really establish our identity . |
| 7 | Chapman , a Yorkshireman , had not had much success as a player , but he shone as a manager , first with Huddersfield and then with Arsenal , where he had a salary of £2,000 a year and wrote a column for the Sunday Express into the bargain . |
| 8 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |
| 9 | An American , Chi-uh Gawain , made many journeys to Monkey Mia and wrote a book about her experiences . |
| 10 | He braked for drugs , booze , and hookers , and wrote a good book about a bum existence . |
| 11 | He made it seem as if he had gone to New Orleans drunk , got sober and wrote a book . |
| 12 | WHILE HE WAS STILL FEELING THE BRUISES FROM THE HANDLEBARS , Nigel sat down and wrote a story called ‘ The Illegal Divorce , . |
| 13 | Doone pursed his lips judiciously , then nodded and wrote a cross against Perkin , and then again a question mark . |
| 14 | He also tried his hand as a film director , though less successfully , and wrote a play about a German who sought to take out a patent for gas ovens , which was staged to scant acclaim at the Arts Theatre in 1965 . |
| 15 | Finally , his son stepped in and wrote a song , ‘ Not Out ’ , that would become an anthem for the new generation of active centenarians . |
| 16 | The Minister ( Sir Edward Boyle ) announced that this would take place in 1970/1 and wrote a remarkable preface to the published text in which he stated that ‘ the essential point is that all children should have an equal opportunity of acquiring intelligence , and developing their talents and abilities to the full ’ . |
| 17 | He had been studying soil fungi since 1916 , and wrote a survey of the known inhibitors in 1940 , but his effective contribution to medicine came after the very modest success of tyrocidin and the very great success of penicillin . |
| 18 | He returned to his room , sat down at the small table and wrote a letter : |
| 19 | When he got up he sat on his bed and wrote a letter : |
| 20 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 21 | Southey once sheltered from a storm here , and wrote a bad sonnet ‘ by the alehouse fire |
| 22 | Nevertheless , Scott felt again he had not expressed his views adequately and returned to his office and wrote a reply . |
| 23 | Green was a warm supporter of the monarchy , and wrote a long encomium of George III after hearing of his death in 1820 . |
| 24 | WILLIAM was ordained as a Church of Scotland Minister but later became an army Chaplain ; he served in India for several years and wrote a series of books on the country which are still highly regarded . |
| 25 | Miss Wise was a strong supporter of the B.D.D.A. and wrote a number of articles for the British Deaf Times , mostly about travel in France . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I retreated to the men 's room and took the film out of the binoculars-camera , and wrote a short note to go with it . |
| 28 | During the First World War he was occupied with the Jurassic rocks of Raasay in connection with the exploitation of the ironstone and wrote a memoir on the subject , published in 1920 . |
| 29 | Although I read a great deal , and wrote a great deal , meal-times were still what kept me going . |
| 30 | He nodded and wrote a prescription for Dexamethazone . |