Example sentences of "a long letter " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would fain write a long letter to each one of you but have no strength … |
| 2 | Sneha , ( not her real name ) an Asian girl of eighteen living with her family near Birmingham , wrote me a long letter , but with the strict proviso that I did n't ring her at home or try to contact her at all . |
| 3 | She died recently and I wrote a long letter to her husband , Wolfgang Schneiderhan . |
| 4 | In a long letter to Alston in 1737 Miller discussed classification of plants according to Tournefort , ‘ no person was ever more exact in all the Synonimes , . |
| 5 | A long letter from him to Miller in 1730 was brought to the attention of the Royal Society and in this he related his experience with inarching ( grafting ) for exotic trees , the climate of Midlothian not being as rigorous as one might imagine . |
| 6 | She is much exercised about a long letter which arrived today , which she did not show me , but smiled over , and caught up and folded away . |
| 7 | He hurriedly wrote a long letter to The Times , which it published on 14th February , the Monday after the debate . |
| 8 | Perhaps unnerved by the suddenness of his summons to the Prime Minister and the vigour of Palmerston 's attack , Scott felt that his case had to be presented in a ‘ more consecutive manner ’ , and on 23rd July , 1859 , he wrote a long letter to Palmerston explaining how much effort he had put into the design and what a loss it would be to the country if it was not adopted . |
| 9 | After years of immersing myself in a new culture , I went to my local GP with a long letter explaining my wish to see a psychiatrist . |
| 10 | I do apologise for such a long letter , but I had always believed that ZZAP ! was the inferior C64 mag . |
| 11 | I remember a Rhodesian in our squadron writing a long letter to the ‘ Malta Times ’ about this very subject , but I do n't think it was ever published . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Yesterday I also received a long letter from Steve Pyle . |
| 13 | I wrote a long letter to my aunt next morning . |
| 14 | It was not a note but a long letter explaining everything , as long and taking her as long to compose as the last piece of writing she had done , an essay comparing and contrasting Verdi and Wagner and their operas . |
| 15 | In a long letter , he then explained that his past affection for someone else ( no doubt Emily Hale ) rendered any new relationship impossible for him . |
| 16 | He followed this with a long letter two months later , in which he tried to convince Pound of his achievement and to sympathize with the despair and anxiety which now assailed him . |
| 17 | She wrote a long letter to her brother about these problems . |
| 18 | Nkrumah reassured Macmillan in a long letter ( 26 September 1961 ) . |
| 19 | It was not a long letter , written in an old-fashioned copperplate hand . |
| 20 | B H Payne , Headmaster of the Cambrian Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Swansea and one of the founder-members , replied with a long letter in the next issue . |
| 21 | I got out of bed and sat in my pyjama trousers and wrote a letter , quite a long letter , which I tore up at the first re-reading . |
| 22 | ( In a long letter to Hester Thrale on 30 September , written from Ostig on Skye , he remarked with a different emphasis : ‘ Barley broath [ sic ] is a constant dish , and is made well in every house . |
| 23 | Finally , he sat down and wrote a long letter to Sybil Vane . |
| 24 | With it was a long letter for me , which said : |
| 25 | Linton wrote a long letter back , explaining that his father would not allow him to do that . |
| 26 | He evidently led musicians on with false promises : a long letter from the cellist Carlo Graziani details amounts owing and favours not forthcoming ( Giardini seems to have promised him a place in the Queen 's Band , though it is highly unlikely that he would have had such influence ) . |
| 27 | In February 1812 , Andrew Berkeley Drummond , newly appointed Keeper of the Privy Purse by the ailing George III , wrote to a cousin joining the bank of a long letter of banking advice . |
| 28 | In 1585 , Lambarde wrote a long letter to Lord Burghley stating reasons for her Majesty to proceed with speed in the defense of the Low Countries . |
| 29 | She wrote my mum a long letter saying that I was a Devil Child and the best thing my mum could do with me was have me exorcized . |
| 30 | A long letter to The Bell argued that expecting Russia 's " educated classes " to solve the country 's problems was futile . |