Example sentences of "[pers pn] had written a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some three weeks after the first anniversary of her husband 's death , she telephoned saying , ‘ Thank you for your letter ’ ( this being the one I had written a year earlier ) . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , I had written a play which was performed within the house and was enjoyed by all concerned in it . |
| 3 | ‘ If I had written a script for myself I would n't have changed a thing ’ , he said . |
| 4 | She had written a receipt for the month 's rent for the garage , which he had proffered at the same time , and had received the book with a watery smile . |
| 5 | What I did n't know was that a few months before we started to work together she had written a proposal to the Thai government to start a ‘ machine knitting project ’ in one of her districts . |
| 6 | Although her reports usually arrived by post , she brought them along in person on one occasion , because she had written a poem and wondered if it was worthy of publication . |
| 7 | Yes , the tour was definitely looking up a little , and only the previous evening she had written a card to her daughter to say that in spite of a death and a theft and a murder she was ‘ beginning to make one or two very nice friends on the trip ’ . |
| 8 | Anna went down the road to post her letter , for she had written a letter to accompany the cheque , in which she reiterated her sorrow about the death of the cat and added that if there was anything she could do , Miss Jakob had only to let her know . |
| 9 | She had written a report on a Black Art Convention in Wolverhampton . |
| 10 | Suppose you had written a function called FN_discount to calculate the discount price from the normal retail price . |
| 11 | ‘ On the contrary , he said advertisements had their good points ; he had written a poem about Steyr automobiles and been given a car for it . |
| 12 | ‘ He said he had written a document which would explain everything — all his views on negotiations . |
| 13 | She said Mr Mandela told them that he had written a document setting out his views on negotiations , the prospect of which President de Klerk has been promoting since well before the National Party returned to power in the 6 September elections . |
| 14 | They had met once while on holiday , and not only was Dustin Hoffman a great fan of Sting , but he had written a song which they performed together . |
| 15 | He knew that he had written a note explaining everything , but the note was back on Belial and he had forgotten its contents . |
| 16 | To Warnie , he had written a letter fall of the gravest admonitions , designed to make him think carefully about what he was committing himself to . |
| 17 | That same night he had written a letter which she first saw on opening her eyes , which she had read over her coffee , wearing , she remembered now , her new negligee with its neck of coral swansdown . |
| 18 | Before departing on the expedition to Benghazi , he had written a memorandum addressed to the Director of Military Training at MEHQ on the future of L Detachment . |
| 19 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
| 20 | The results confirmed his diagnosis and after he had written a report for Jack 's own GP transport was arranged to take the patient home to rest . |