Example sentences of "he write [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many readers must have sighed with regret that so few of Gainsborough 's letters have survived , since the charm of his style is so fresh ; it is easy to sympathise with him writing about his professional commitment to portraiture , on behalf of two fine ladies , his daughters : |
| 2 | L'Humanité was now a communist paper , and we find him writing in its columns condemning ‘ The indifference of the proletariat in the metropole with regard to the colonies . |
| 3 | Instead he writes about his geraniums . |
| 4 | This sensibility for integrating aspects of contemplative with active life is also manifest in the Livre de Seyntz Medecines written by Henry Duke of Lancaster ; in it he writes about his own sense of that mortal sin for which Christ the healer supplies remedies , having beaten death in that tournament where he " turned our sorrow into joy and overcame death with death " . |
| 5 | Sometimes he writes about his native Ireland , sometimes he does n't — but that is not the point . |
| 6 | I would be interested to read what he writes to his wife or girlfriend . |
| 7 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 8 | He can honestly claim to have been a righteous servant of God ; in verse 16 he writes of his service being like that of a priest , who bridges the gap between God and man , and who presents a sacrifice to God as part of the priest 's duties and privileges . |
| 9 | Secondly , as part of the same continuing process , he writes above his signature ‘ This is my last will and testament . |
| 10 | ‘ I have explained both in previous chapters and during our programmes , ’ he writes in his best-selling book which accompanies the series , ‘ that from the yoga viewpoint , all life is sustained by a force which the Yogis have named prana . |
| 11 | ‘ As from today ’ , he writes in his resignation letter , ’ I tear off the mask of studied ambiguity that your organization did give me twelve years ago . |
| 12 | He writes in Our Lady : ‘ We are , after all , familiar enough with the tragedy of a certain feeling which is obliged to borrow its expression from the opposite feeling so as to escape from the myrmidons of the law . |
| 13 | Two months after the Herling piece was published Levi committed suicide , throwing himself down the staircase of the house in Turin where he was born and grew up , where he wrote about his life in the camp at a desk which stood where his cradle had stood , a house he shared with his wife and mother . |
| 14 | He wrote about his own temptations , and came close to presenting the revolt of the Noldor as a felix culpa , a ‘ fortunate sin ’ , when Manwë accepts that their deeds will live in song , so that ‘ beauty not before conceived [ shall ] be brought into Eä ’ ; fiction , poetry , craftsmanship are seen as carrying their own justification and as all being much the same thing . |
| 15 | When he was no more than fourteen , he wrote on his own initiative to every domestic airline . |
| 16 | It shows you how thick this boy is , he wrote on his name , he spelt it R I E N . |
| 17 | Certainly this is one aspect of the poetry he wrote during his marriage to Vivien , at least up to Ash-Wednesday , and also of the early poetry he wrote as a young man in Paris . |
| 18 | ‘ I am very pleased with my visit to Kano ’ , he wrote to its emir , ‘ and I am glad to have seen you again , for I regard you as my personal friend , in whom I place entire confidence and trust . ’ |
| 19 | The novelist is now of course in middle age , but right back in his teens he wrote to his brother ‘ Man is a mystery ’ , adding that a lifetime spent trying to unravel the mystery would not be wasted . |
| 20 | You can read about how he survived in the letters he wrote to his wife , published here by Faber as Letters To Olga . |
| 21 | He wrote to his friend R.S. Dods in Australia , ‘ … it looks so reasonable , so kindly , so perfectly beautiful , that you feel that people might have been making love , and living and dying there and dear little children running about for — the last - I was going to say 1,000 years — anyway , 600 . |
| 22 | At the age of 22 he wrote to his father from Paris : ‘ What annoys me most is that these idiots in France still think I am seven years old , because that is when they first knew me . ’ |
| 23 | He had never , he wrote to his superiors , seen an operation so badly planned or so amateurishly organized ; ‘ at the CIA , we really do run a better show than that . ’ |
| 24 | He wrote to his mother and told his brother about the baby ; he said more than once that he intended to marry Jeanne . |
| 25 | ( For instance , one veteran listed a pair of jogging shoes left behind on the islands among his painful memories : another recalled a letter he wrote to his girlfriend from the trenches , asking her to tell me the truth , if she did n't love me any more or was going out with another boy ’ . ) ’ |
| 26 | On 8 March 1779 he wrote to his ambassador , ‘ We can provide plans which will be sufficiently to the taste of M. de Florida Blanca ’ , and a small planning group , which included the French Minister of War , the Prince de Montbarey , and of Marine , Gabriel de Sartine , was set up . |
| 27 | ‘ I love this turgid life of command ’ , he wrote to his wife , |
| 28 | He wrote to his biographer that as a young men he |
| 29 | Shortly after his arrival in Spanish Town he wrote to his cousin William Charles , informing him that : ‘ … some of your shawls sold for 200 and 300 per cent.profit … ’ , but adding : |
| 30 | That night he wrote to his mother , leaning on the mahogany table while Willie read his Bible , seated on the box bed they shared . |