Example sentences of "to write about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No I do n't want to write about Englishness . |
| 2 | The aim is to help students develop both the linguistic skills and the critical awareness they need in order to read for pleasure , to discuss , and to write about literature . |
| 3 | I thought I would like to write about north and south , rich and poor , working-class and middle-class , so I had the idea of a working-class character , not from the south-east , who goes into different backgrounds . ’ |
| 4 | If my girlfriend f—s somebody else , or if I f— somebody else , or we 're not getting along , it 's always my reaction to write about things . |
| 5 | It would have been ridiculous to write about Marilyn Monroe [ he is the author of Goddess ] without covering her sex life , or indeed to write a biography of anyone without discussing sexuality . |
| 6 | IF I WAS not writing about dancers , I would love to write about horses . |
| 7 | The authors who began to write about rape and related it to male power , male supremacy and male sexuality , questioned what they saw to be the essentialist constructions of female sexuality which continued to predominate within the age of sexual revolution . |
| 8 | ‘ And you 've come all the way from America to write about Heymouth ? ’ |
| 9 | Aldous Huxley said that it was impossible to write about Lawrence except as an artist . |
| 10 | It was normal for women to write about love , but they were expected always to be decorous . |
| 11 | Erm , women do n't just want to write about knitting , erm |
| 12 | He stayed awake and after midnight he went to the room which Kate 's mother had set aside for his father to write about birds in . |
| 13 | To write about emotions may mean that at times a piece of writing in social science reads more like a novel , indeed , may sometimes be a novel — Freud called Moses and Monotheism a novel , and apologized for some of his case-histories reading like novels rather than scientific treatises . |
| 14 | The reluctance to write about sex is curious in a writer who has been gleefully unreticent on the demands and delinquencies attending other forms of physical exertion . |
| 15 | I do n't I mean you 're not going to write about oxen very often are you ? |
| 16 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 17 | The sense of dispossession sustained an underworld of thugs , drug pushers , and thieves ( I wanted to write about crime in Hawaii , but the godfather of the North Shore let me know that he 'd rather I did n't ) . |
| 18 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 19 | She says Dickens knows how to write about men but women are kept out of the limelight . |
| 20 | There are countless fans who would feel I am singularly unqualified to write about pain and football . |
| 21 | These journalists probably wo n't be able to write about Christmas cards in their columns but they will be interested in the current range of fun notelets and notepaper . |
| 22 | You do n't want to write about people who are successful . ’ |
| 23 | In this case , then , to write about reality is not to relate word to thing , but text to text . |
| 24 | He might visit from time to time should a story miserable enough to write about crop up , but there was no way he was going to edit the paper from there . |
| 25 | There could be several reasons why Tolkien chose to write about fascination with the artefact ( a theme present in his work since chapter 1 of The Hobbit ) . |
| 26 | ‘ To write about Aids is bad taste , ’ he deadpans . |
| 27 | Heavily influenced by reading H. G. Wells and Thomas Henry Huxley , he resolved to write about science rather than to practise it . |
| 28 | I 'm not going to write about body language in detail because there are already several books on the subject ( see page 120 ) . |
| 29 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 30 | Sometimes the Ashleys mixed their French and English friends with amusing results , such as the occasion when they invited Terence Conran and his wife Caroline , the cookery writer , who were inveighed against by their French dinner companions , claiming it was an audacity for the English to write about food as they knew nothing about it . |