Example sentences of "when [pron] write the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I wrote the entry on Hayward for the DNB , I found this made my task difficult . |
| 2 | When I wrote the program , I never thought that it would evolve anything more than a variety of tree-like shapes . |
| 3 | You cut your own throat already when you wrote the script for Connie 's disappearance . ’ |
| 4 | Might he have been despatched by those means , other than useless lawyers , which were considered by Sandra when she wrote the list ? |
| 5 | By contrast , when she wrote the novel versions of Stolen and To Have and To Hold ( ‘ ghastly title — it was a television title ’ ) , her characters had already been embodied , by other people . |
| 6 | When we wrote the editorial it was true that most , but not all , of the evidence of opportunism had been reported from the United States . |
| 7 | ‘ Charles Wood and I were not aware of the problems when we wrote the scene , ’ he recalled . |
| 8 | When we write the stories of people we know , we often fall into the trap of identifying too strongly with our subject and not giving the reader enough to go on because the material is too familiar to us . |
| 9 | The Conservatives are inconsistent , I mean that when they wrote the policy , when they were looking at the guidelines this erm I ca n't remember off hand what it was on page fifty . |
| 10 | It is seen in The Facts to belong to the times in which the writer lived when he wrote the novel , when opposition to the Vietnam War , and to a President Johnson perceived as monstrous , took to the street-wisdom of a farcical obscenity . |
| 11 | When he wrote The Childhood at the age of thirty-five , Thomas associated this sudden interest in poetry with a sex-stirred liking for a ‘ tall thin freckled girl of about my own age with good rather large features , dark hair and grey eyes , and an austere expression ’ . |
| 12 | In 1899 he lost his much-loved daughter , Josephine , and this sad event may have been in his mind when he wrote the emotive story , They . |
| 13 | The view McTaggart finds unsatisfactory — that ‘ I ’ is known by description — seems to be that to which Russell had become converted when he wrote The Analysis of Mind ( 1921 ) . |
| 14 | One reason why the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem was so important for Wittgenstein was because he could not dissolve it without revising the view he had taken on this point when he wrote the Tractatus . |
| 15 | The grumbles of J. Alfred Prufrock in early Eliot are endurable if they are meant to be ridiculous , but only then ; and sitting around on Margate sands , or anywhere else , trying to connect nothing with nothing may be all right for Harvard men abroad , but ( as Eliot must already have discovered when he wrote The Waste Land ) it has nothing to do with the daily life of the Londoner . |
| 16 | Arenas explained that , although he was suffering from AIDS when he wrote the book , he hardly mentioned the illness ‘ because I do n't know what it is . |
| 17 | The extent of his disaffection with the contemporary art scene became evident when he wrote the satire ‘ The Hopkin Syndicate ’ for Ark . |
| 18 | St Paul was n't preparing to do anything when he wrote the letter ; he was in prison , with limited scope for any kind of activity . |
| 19 | The writer was on a ship when he wrote the letters , ’ I replied . |
| 20 | ‘ I think we must agree that Keble was not at his most inspired when he wrote the hymn which we sang at Candlemas not so long ago — beginning , if I remember rightly , |