Example sentences of "he wrote the " in BNC.

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1 It is seen in The Facts to belong to the times in which the writer lived when he wrote the novel , when opposition to the Vietnam War , and to a President Johnson perceived as monstrous , took to the street-wisdom of a farcical obscenity .
2 He wrote the first textbook on the relationship between the natural functions of the bones , ligaments , tendons and muscles , and dance movement .
3 Presumably this was important to him ( it always was to me and I can fully understand this ) for he wrote the route up in the new routes books asking how others would feel if he subsequently went back and placed a single bolt runner to protect the route .
4 That he wrote the book of the Falcon ,
5 He started by writing occasional articles but in 1939 he wrote The State of Music , a trenchant and provocative assessment of the machinery of the musical profession at the time .
6 Before he wrote the book he could hardly get the job because he had not published a book .
7 After he wrote the book he could not get the job because it was a Hoskynsish sort of book .
8 In the very year when , after taking British citizenship and joining the Church of England , he wrote the famous ‘ Preface ’ to For Lancelot Andrewes ( dedicated to Eliot 's mother ) , Eliot was recalling his own childhood in his introductory remarks to This American World , and his days at Fishermen 's Corner in Gloucester .
9 The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by .
10 When he wrote The Childhood at the age of thirty-five , Thomas associated this sudden interest in poetry with a sex-stirred liking for a ‘ tall thin freckled girl of about my own age with good rather large features , dark hair and grey eyes , and an austere expression ’ .
11 He wrote the last words of The Amateur Poacher — a gospel , an incantation — as an epigraph on all his own books .
12 In 1899 he lost his much-loved daughter , Josephine , and this sad event may have been in his mind when he wrote the emotive story , They .
13 Meanwhile in 1558 he wrote the Appellation to the Nobility and Estates of Scotland , a work which , taken in conjunction with his Letter addressed to the Commonalty of Scotland , shows how far his mind was moving towards a positive theory of the rights of resistance in God 's cause .
14 In this ‘ little unsuspected paradise ’ he wrote The Prelude , the ode Intimations of Immortality , Michael , many of the Lucy poems and Resolution of Independence among many others .
15 He wrote the theme music for a British television serial adapted from a Barbara Cartland novel .
16 He wrote the opening and closing signature tunes for the program , but they were dumped after the first season and replaced with ‘ something a little more distinctive ’ .
17 Held through the night , he wrote the following morning : ‘ I am treated like I was at home .
18 Rizzo maintains no more than that it is possible that he wrote the poem .
19 He wrote the only intelligent thing that appeared this morning .
20 Whenever he saw her he would ask her to explain the Bible to him , and in the drawing he made of her , he wrote the Hebrew version of her name , Chana , daughter of Rafael , in Hebrew characters across the top of the head .
21 It said , In this house ( and the ceramic of the plaque had broken and the name was missing ) stayed on his first visit to the city , and it was here that he wrote the opening pages of his greatest work .
22 He also recommended the use of vaccines to stimulate immunity to the pneumococci , but made no reference to the penicillin , a little of which , presumably , was in his reach while he wrote the letter .
23 Obviously Hanns Ebensten was not an unbiased witness , but he wrote the most vivid account of the ballet :
24 He wrote the poetry of social conscience in the remarkable Salisbury Plain , and imbibed the radicalism of friends and acquaintances in London ; but the vagabond existence to which he was increasingly reduced lacked in every sense a clear direction .
25 While Coleridge waited for the sun to set behind Dowsborough and Higher Hare Knap , he wrote the first fluent draft of a poem reworked soon afterwards as ‘ This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison ’ .
26 Graham Greene , for example , said that he wrote The Confidential Agent in record time under the influence of benzedrine .
27 It was at that time he wrote the first of a series of Scots novels which were to secure for him a place in the history of literature .
28 He wrote the first card to Mitch .
29 Out of this deep sense of the ‘ once and might have been ’ , which threw the wonder of salvation into sharp relief , he wrote the hymn , ‘ Amazing Grace ’ .
30 And he wrote the sleeve notes on two or three of the CDs .
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