Example sentences of "i wrote to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wrote to the Secretary of State , and my right hon. and hon. Friends wrote to the Prime Minister , but we have not received a reply . |
| 2 | I wrote to the Secretary of State , but he has not even begun to justify the Government 's action . |
| 3 | I wrote to the Secretary of State for the Environment and was told that it was really a matter for the chief environmental officer of the local authority , but when I took the matter up with the local environmental officer , his response — and it is to his credit that he responded — was , ’ Well , it may be bad , but it is not really so bad that I must take any action . ’ |
| 4 | So I wrote to the London Marathon office . |
| 5 | I know erm I thought I wrote to the electricity board in , I wrote to somebody about erm how er things should be labelled about how efficient they are when using electricity . |
| 6 | As I know that many Presbyterian loyalists are decent , courageous Christian men and women , I wrote to the editor and begged to be excused from his dictum . |
| 7 | Since neither drug was available commercially , I wrote to the Lederle Laboratories and to the Burroughs Wellcome Company for a supply of methotrexate and 6-MP , respectively . |
| 8 | Intrigued , I wrote to the US Navy Department and received in reply a copy of Ensign Smith 's report on the operation . |
| 9 | Two weeks ago I wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting that it was now time for the Church Militant to denounce antibiotics in the same uncompromising terms once used against usury , but I suspect my advice ( admittedly unsolicited ) will go the same way as the seed of Onan . |
| 10 | In the absence of anyone more nearly related I had been designated next-of-kin , and now I wrote to the Court of Protection who had been dealing with her affairs , asking what my responsibilities would be if she died . |
| 11 | So I wrote to the Warden of Spurn Bird Observatory and booked myself in for a night . |
| 12 | ‘ I received a reply to a letter I wrote to the Duke of Edinburgh , president of the Playing Fields Association , ’ she said . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ I wrote to the Serjeant at Arms on March 2 asking for a full investigation . |
| 14 | I wrote to the Earl personally and told him that Brownie Guides are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks , but received a reply saying that my letter had been passed on to the agent , Mr. Bishop , who handled all such matters . |
| 15 | In February 1990 , while I was still Minister for Housing , I wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer : ‘ There must be a danger now of a demand squeeze turning into a real threat to supply-side confidence . |
| 16 | I wrote to the editors of all the major newspapers and television channels asking them to cover the anniversary . |
| 17 | you 're responsible for mine and if I 'm at work I 'm responsible for yours , I wrote to the D H S S |
| 18 | I wrote to the Sunday Correspondent criticising a claim in their first issue that the recent flattening in the rise of the monthly AIDS figures is due to the Government 's propaganda campaign of 1986 . |
| 19 | When I wrote to the Department of the Environment , the reply was that this was the Lord Chancellor 's responsibility . |
| 20 | I wrote to the Health Education Authority telling them that I did n't think their advertisements would affect lifestyles much , if at all . |
| 21 | I wrote to the Lord Chancellor about the case . |
| 22 | ‘ When we first moved in over a year ago I wrote to the police in the traffic section at Winchester about the situation in Holybourne , ’ said Mrs. Gilmour . |
| 23 | I wrote to the planning officer on 10 April 1991 enclosing a copy of my earlier letter , and again on 6 July 1991 when the matter was raised in the Minutes of the Land and Properties Sub-Committee , restating the Parish Council 's views and asking that they should be involved in the discussions of the future of the site . |
| 24 | After seeing Mr. Docherty I wrote to the manager of the local unemployment benefit office for her comments on the circumstances leading to the suspension of his benefit . |
| 25 | I wrote to the Northern Ireland representative of the Attorney General on 28th June 1974 , but a reply was not sent to me until August 1st . |
| 26 | I wrote to the effect that I did indeed look forward to life with him , and that my guidelines for living were the same as his . |
| 27 | Although I wrote to the Corporation drawing attention to Captain Roskill 's account of the incident , the letter was neither published nor acknowledged — presumably on the basis that the BBC saw no reason why facts should spoil a good story about a ‘ cover-up ’ . |
| 28 | Then I wrote to the captain himself . |