Example sentences of "down and write a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having , as I say , abandoned everything he had done , he sat down and wrote a six-part novel within a year which included a twenty-six day break in which he threw together and dictated The Gambler , itself not a small book nor a negligible one , to satisfy the terms of a contract he had made with a shyster publisher . |
| 2 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |
| 3 | WHILE HE WAS STILL FEELING THE BRUISES FROM THE HANDLEBARS , Nigel sat down and wrote a story called ‘ The Illegal Divorce , . |
| 4 | His plan was endorsed ; he then sat down and wrote a letter to the Director of Education in Bath Street ; and that gentleman 's reply was positive . |
| 5 | Finally , he sat down and wrote a long letter to Sybil Vane . |
| 6 | tried to do joined writing , apparently we are supposed to do that as teachers , actually said got ta put their primary on primary education , it says sit down and write a poem in joined up writing and look at your own writing and before you try to teach it to children make sure that you know |
| 7 | GRIDLOCK by Ben Elton Sphere , £4.99 WHEN a stand-up comedian decides to sit down and write a novel , does the result have to be a heavy-handed satire on just about everything ? |
| 8 | Of course , record companies are always going to want you to have a hit , but as far as what we do , they just have to look at our albums and try to pick out something they can exploit that way , after the event , as compared to trying to make us sit down and write a hit . |
| 9 | Bernard paints a picture of a pope harassed by worldly affairs and commends the example of Pope Gregory the Great , who , while the city was besieged by the barbarians , found time to sit down and write a commentary on Ezekiel . |
| 10 | I mean I could sit down and write a piece of doggerel about what we 're doing now that rhymed and was comic and so on . |
| 11 | So so basically , in a minute , have to sit down and write a list of who is going to come and who is not and what order . |