Example sentences of "he wrote [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two weeks later he wrote to the Petrograd Soviet sketching out his vision of peace from below : ‘ a great International of the democracies , organised as a parliament of the world and strong in the legislatures of every nation … . |
| 2 | He wrote to the Lord Treasurer Rochester begging for appointment to Exeter in preference to Bristol , as the bishopric of Exeter yielded better stipends with which to pay off family debts . |
| 3 | He wrote to the NME : ‘ They are the victims of bathos , and life is mimicking the ultimate economic distinction in the this absurd scene : the rich and the poor , the landed and the lost , the Royal Family — regal and splendid — and The Wedding Present , recently starved , surviving on cheese sandwiches . ’ |
| 4 | We had snow from London to the Cotswolds and then it turned soft [ he wrote to the Davidsons ] . |
| 5 | In 1648 he wrote to the Westminster Assembly , criticizing the Presbyterian system it had devised , but the only result was the suspension of his augmentation at Winchester . |
| 6 | He wrote to the CVCP , in fact , explaining that the CNAA would be considering courses ‘ in Education ’ , that it intended to approach the whole question with care , and that although the Council ‘ was not taking the initiative in seeking to extend its work in the field of Education , several colleges of education had made informal approaches which could not be ignored … |
| 7 | Alex Brown & Sons financial analyst Mark Stahlman , who coined the phrase network computing , has charged IBM with leaning on The Harvard Business Review hard enough to make it pull a 10,000-word article he wrote for the January issue on ‘ Why IBM Failed . ’ |
| 8 | Jacques Fouroux maintained a sane approach when he wrote after the Paris quarter-final : ‘ It 's true that since the beginning of the World Cup the refereeing has played a significant role in the outcome of the game , but it would be chauvinistic to say the same about the way Mr. Bishop has refereed . |
| 9 | Before sleeping I wonder what Pascal had in mind when he wrote in the Pensées : ‘ Time heals griefs and quarrels , for we change and are no longer the same persons . |
| 10 | ‘ The chief arms left me ’ , he wrote in the Eikon Basilike , ‘ were those only which the ancient Christians were wont to use against their persecutors , prayers and tears . |