Example sentences of "wrote a [adj] letter " in BNC.

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1 Paul-Henri Spaak even wrote a personal letter to the British prime minister , Anthony Eden , which , in appealing for discussions within WEU , pointed in the same direction .
2 For last year 's service we drew up a plan and then wrote a personal letter from the laity group to all the Churches , emphasising how much we believed in the power of praying together for Unity .
3 He wrote a decisive letter to Newton and then tore it up and burnt it .
4 Their relationship was further impaired when in 1954 Pound criticized Eliot 's Christianity as " lousy " ; Eliot wrote a caustic letter back .
5 He wrote a pathetic letter to his lord , describing his condition in prison where he lay bound with fetters of iron and beseeching aid from the Earl of March to secure his deliverance .
6 The shamed Roman Catholic cleric wrote a heart-rending letter to the parents of his mistress , teacher Monika Kocanek , who had just given birth to baby Jennifer .
7 I should have been consulted because it affected me too , she thought , and wrote a terse letter to him .
8 She died recently and I wrote a long letter to her husband , Wolfgang Schneiderhan .
9 He hurriedly wrote a long letter to The Times , which it published on 14th February , the Monday after the debate .
10 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 .
11 I wrote a long letter to my aunt next morning .
12 She wrote a long letter to her brother about these problems .
13 Finally , he sat down and wrote a long letter to Sybil Vane .
14 Linton wrote a long letter back , explaining that his father would not allow him to do that .
15 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 .
16 Rachel flopped exhausted into the long white sofa and wrote a long letter to Jenny , pouring her heart out for the first time in three weeks , telling her everything that had happened since she left .
17 Wrote a good letter ?
18 As late as 1865 , the botanist J. D. Hooker wrote a revealing letter to Darwin in which he complained of the stance taken by their contemporary , Alfred Russel Wallace , who had wondered that scientists should be so afraid to say what they think .
19 Later that morning , sitting in the back parlour of the shop , she wrote a promised letter to Mrs Rundle on a sheet torn from her aunt 's pad .
20 But he soon became the keenest and most enlightened Italian expounder of the Council , and wrote a pastoral letter for Lent 1962 , Pensiamo al Concilio ( Let's think about the Council ) , that learnedly explains to the Milanese what is going to happen .
21 I wrote a final letter hoping that when he read my book he would see that I was serious .
22 She wrote a nice letter .
23 Wrote a snotty letter to the poor chap at Kenwards — I rang him up first , of course , he was embarrassed all over again — asking him to ask his client to leave mine alone .
24 ( Although she had enjoyed herself , Miss Weeton apparently never wrote a single letter to her god-daughter , though she was a tremendous letter-writer .
25 He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time .
26 So , after a little research in Bangkok , I wrote a few letters and made a few calls and found a Brother distributer .
27 The MP wrote a strongly-worded letter after hearing from worried residents in an area near Stirling Castle about their fears over the offer of a flat to an ‘ anti-social tenant ’ .
28 He wrote a longish letter on 23 May ending with the words :
29 However , Vuk was too honest and too independent-minded to please Miloš , and when he again crossed over to Zemun in April 1832 he wrote a frank letter , telling Miloš what he believed to be wrong with his regime and advising him to introduce a constitution .
30 When the shot was first used editorially , illustrating a story on alcoholism , the man wrote a furious letter to Doisneau 's agency , Rapho , in which he revealed himself to be a respected professor at the Sorbonne .
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