Example sentences of "he [verb] write [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For him , to discover a new writer of genius is as satisfying an experience , as it is for a lesser man to believe that he has written a great work of genius himself .
2 He has written a memorable account of his spiritually rich but socially oppressed childhood , his struggles for education , and his emigration to the United States in 1913 .
3 He has written a five page article about his illness in a Darlington medical journal and to celebrate his gradual return to good health he has started to learn the piano .
4 ‘ Consequently , he has written a formal letter of explanation and apology . ’
5 He has written a scientific paper in the journal of the Royal Society of Medicine that says you are likely to have significant long-term reductions in minor health problems if you acquire a dog .
6 ‘ You were saying that he has written a wonderful book — and that it 's going to be published ? ’
7 It is one of the most interesting books I have ever read … not because Rorty is claiming to have discovered the Truth but because he has written a fine description of our confusion and of our capacity to create our own selves .
8 Somebody called John Hawley reviewed the novel for the Times , and he was rather sniffy : ‘ Begley is clearly after something more than entertainment here : he wants to write The Great Gatsby .
9 Before marrying Shirley , he 'd written an honourable and honest letter to Betty Fowler , but he 'd received no reply .
10 At the same time he began writing the book-length account of his theory that was published as On the Origin of Species at the end of 1859 .
11 Thereafter , he began to write A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages ( 1966 ) , followed ( 1969 ) by indexes ( by Lady Turner ) and a phonetic analysis ( 1971 ) .
12 After contracting tuberculosis he spent a year in Italy , where he began to write a satirical novel , later published as They Winter Abroad ( 1932 ) , under the pseudonym of James Aston .
13 He started to write a regular column for a Chicago weekly newspaper , and embarked on a series of radio interviews , talking about Syria 's occupation of Lebanon and its involvement in narco-terrorism .
14 He decided to write an additional part into his movie especially for Nicholson .
15 Satisfying himself after a while , he commenced to write a follow-up letter , composed by George and dated 31 August .
16 ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’
17 The fact that he had written a large part of it after his marriage led him to think of it as a work quite different from the one he had originally envisaged.It was while engaged on it at Kensington Court Gardens that he added the more tender love scenes which provide its real poetry .
18 One Borstal inmate , Rodney Ackland , was expelled from the company when it was discovered that he had written a highbrow play while employed as a BIP screenwriter .
19 It 's a very simple rhythm , but he had written the whole thing shifted over and I got the manuscript and I 'm looking at it and going ‘ Man , I know it 's been a while since I read a lot of solo guitar , but this does n't look right ! ’
20 He had to write a tiny snippet insisting that it was irony and the editor printed a token letter by a woman who had pointed out that if only young girls were left — and not enough of them to go round — only rich old men would have any chance of sex .
21 he resolved to write a semi-autobiographical novel , based on Repton and China .
22 Novelist , Andrew Field , claims to have discovered the lost chronicle of Edward de Vere in a hidden compartment of a desk in Chipping Norton , and he 's written a convincing novel round the supposed documents , supporting the theory that de Vere was a diplomat scholar and soldier beloved of Elizabeth the first , that he in fact , wrote the plays and the sonnets .
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