Example sentences of "write at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 2 | Miller next wrote on 15 February 1757 reporting that he had just received a letter from Bartram , written at the beginning of November , with the ‘ disagreeable account that neither of my letters , wrote last summer ’ had arrived and thus some of his important queries had not been considered . |
| 3 | Edward Gaylord Bourne , in his masterly series Spain in America , written at the beginning of this century , offers a view with which few would take issue : |
| 4 | Here BT , p are written at the head of the left-hand array ; by obvious row combinations we find y at the bottom . |
| 5 | Documents written at the abbey record that he worked in several media . |
| 6 | It was then contended that because the name , the signature as the judge had held it to be , had been written at the top of the document before the dispositive contents had been written , it could not have been intended ‘ to give effect to ’ the dispositive contents . |
| 7 | There 's a s a definite explanation of terms that you see in the music written at the top of page forty seven would you look at them please . |
| 8 | Index cards are easily handled and shuffled ; they can be kept in alphabetised boxes , come in different colours , and can have a topic , keyword or reference written at the top , as an indication of what is on the card . |
| 9 | This sentence , by the Brazilian film-maker Glauber Rocha , written at the turn of the 1970s , clearly identifies a form of expression with a mass of oppressed people whose experience has been continuous over at least four centuries . |
| 10 | Canadians say that the letter , whose existence has not previously been revealed , was written at the insistence of the Americans . |
| 11 | This second volume contains , besides several ingenious smaller pieces , written on particular occasions , The Unhappy Father , a tragedy , with three acts of a second play , written at the request of a friend , in about a fortnight , and some letters of this extraordinary young woman , which have a solidity in them far beyond what could be expected from one of her years , and so destitute of the advantages of education … |
| 12 | Those words , just quoted , were written at the end of March , not from Basle , but from Lugano , and it was in Lugano that the new plans for the book had been translated into this continuous draft . |
| 13 | Written at the end of the Fifties , it was a play ahead of its time , tackling issues of illegitimacy and inter-racial relations with a feminist approach , and set Cuka off on a distinguished career . |
| 14 | She should have followed her instincts and remembered what Debbie had written at the end of those notes , taken them as a warning and run as hard and as far as she could away from this Capricorn man ! |
| 15 | This 19th of Cherubini 's 34 operas was conceived and written at the height of the Revolutionary Reign of Terror . |
| 16 | This 19th of Cherubini 's 34 operas was conceived and written at the height of the Revolutionary Reign of Terror . |
| 17 | Paradise is the work of a passionate activist , written at the height of the struggle to win recognition of the disaster from the Japanese establishment and even people in Minamata itself . |
| 18 | By a curious twist of fate , Sartre 's preface to Aden Arabie , Nizan 's account of his own journey to a third world colonial country in 1926–27 , a journey which Sartre pinpoints as the moment when their student friendship began to end , was written at the height of a momentous third-world revolutionary struggle . |
| 19 | He was to pay tribute to Kingsmill after his death in an exchange of letters with Malcolm Muggeridge , published as About Kingsmill ( 1951 ) , and recalled what had been the deepest friendship of his life between the lines of Johnson and Boswell ( 1958 ) , the last book written at the height of his powers . |
| 20 | book , she wrote a list out what she wanted , she used to hand it , I remember , I 'd forgotten all about this , let's just say we were at the Co-Op , she 'd hand it in at the counter so the , the groceries counter all , and she 'd written it all out , and when it came back it was , was five minutes , it was all together for you , there it was , it was built up on the counter , and each time the amount was written at the side so |
| 21 | Ironically , better than actors and playwrights , they understand Johnson 's words , written at the conclusion of a prologue to a play by Garrick at Drury Lane : The stage but echoes back the public voice/The drama 's laws the drama 's patrons give/For we that live to please must please to live . |
| 22 | He sat naked , at her desk , reading something he had written at the typewriter . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's written at the front of my note-book and it says ‘ Private ’ in case you had n't noticed . ’ |
| 24 | Northumberland has , of course , great beauties , but foul and interminable rain endured there on the Tuesday and in Chester-le-Street , with a lesser downpour in Darlington the next day , have reduced me to the shuddering , feverish condition in which this is being written at the Wheatsheaf , Sandbach . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , I 'll look up the books he 's written at the college library and take a couple out , ’ said Loretta airily . |
| 26 | Conrad 's Heart of Darkness is the first English modernist novel , it was written at the break of the century , a time of great change and movement ( for example , electricity , airplanes , telephone were all invented , democracy and freud emerged . ) |
| 27 | To be sure , the last page of the last chapter had not been written at the death of the last apostle any more than it had at the death of the Messiah ; but , like him , the disciples enjoyed the characteristic gift of the end , the Holy Spirit whom the prophets knew would be poured out in the last days . |
| 28 | For many years little notice was taken of Wordsworth 's writings before 1798 , but even the School Exercise written at the age of fourteen ( Poetical Works , i , 259–61 ) is useful as an illustration of the faults of eighteenth-century style ; it is written in heroic couplets , in imitation of the work of Alexander Pope , and contains an excessive use of personification : |
| 29 | The First ( or rather the first he acknowledged , since there had been a previous Quartettsatz he had written at the age of 25 ) was completed in 1920 after a long gestation period of four years — partly explicable by its extreme complexity and his elaborately detailed indications on the playing of almost every note . |
| 30 | To start with , his Sonata No. 1 , written at the age of 19 , inhabits the same romantic hothouse as his teacher Franz Schreker — rather attractively and close to early Berg but without the discipline of his concise Piano Sonata , Op. 1 . |