Example sentences of "[pron] wrote [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty or 40 years ago someone wrote a letter to Nature after tracking down its origin . |
| 2 | who had an estate and there were St Trinian 's incidentally er , inciden that 's where the name came from for the books and friend of theirs and relation of his wrote the book I do n't know , something like that , and anyhow eventually I got |
| 3 | Because I became aware of the problems when I first came into gliding , I wrote a booklet on the subject , called Sub-Gravity Sensations and Gliding Accidents ( available from the BGA in the UK and SSA in the USA ) . |
| 4 | I wrote a similar piece entitled ‘ The Grievance Procedure , Step by Step ’ which also went down well . |
| 5 | ‘ Thank you for coming so quickly , ’ I said to the man as I wrote a cheque . |
| 6 | Emergency wanted A few years ago I wrote a little book called Discovering Backpacking . |
| 7 | In fact I wrote a song yesterday & if you are good you shall have it , supposing you care . |
| 8 | ‘ On my last legs , ’ Seth wrote later , ‘ I hied down to New Orleans to drink myself quietly to death , and nearly did , but something awoke in me and I wrote a book instead . ’ |
| 9 | We also went to Madrid again and saw a performance by the famous travelling circus , the Circo Price , about whose clowns I wrote a poem in The Prodigal Son . |
| 10 | She died recently and I wrote a long letter to her husband , Wolfgang Schneiderhan . |
| 11 | I wrote a couple of articles about it eventually . |
| 12 | I wrote a few postcards — I had more faith in Bolivia 's postal service than Peru 's — and wondered what I was doing here . |
| 13 | ‘ I wrote a paper on Victorian women 's imagination of space . |
| 14 | Some twenty years ago I wrote a guidebook to the walks on and around the three peaks of Ingleborough , Penyghent and Whernside in Upper Ribblesdale , supplementing the text with over two hundred pen-and-ink drawings . |
| 15 | Several years ago I wrote a controversial article in a fishing magazine concerning black , bronze and two-tone bream . |
| 16 | I was so impressed by this young man that immediately on my return to Vancouver I wrote a long and detailed letter to my parliamentary friend at the House of Commons in Ottawa , A.M. ‘ Sandy ’ Nicholson , M.P. , urging more federal action for the case of the Indian . |
| 17 | Meditation was something that only happened east of Suez and although imaging was something I did every time I wrote a book , play or did a drawing , I had not associated it with my cancer . |
| 18 | When the National Curriculum was first unveiled , in the shape of Mr Baker 's celebrated ‘ Little Red Book ’ , I wrote a piece which began : ‘ If this were genuinely a consultative document , I should reply to its chief begetter that 20 per cent of it is potentially helpful , 20 per cent unexceptionable , and 60 per cent either foolish or dangerous or both ’ . |
| 19 | Recently I wrote a letter to every car manufacturer throughout the world , offering advice on improving car seats . |
| 20 | Sir , — When Malcolm Rifkind was made Minister of Transport I wrote a letter to him congratulating him on his appointment , expressing the hope that he would be a success in his job and asking him to instruct his Civil Servants to concentrate their efforts more on the railways of this country rather than on the roads . |
| 21 | However , on the 13th I wrote a letter to my parents , which I had absolutely no intention of sending . |
| 22 | ‘ I wrote a postcard to my parents , ’ recalls Margaret Olmer ; ‘ I ca n't remember if I addressed it to both . |
| 23 | Katelina said , ‘ I wrote a message , to Lucia , in case you thought of that . |
| 24 | I was so angry that I wrote a furious letter to him accusing him of being un-Christian and ignorant , and also wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury , whom I also regard as ineffectual . |
| 25 | At the time of the Conservative Party 's removal of Margaret Thatcher , I wrote a column — in the ‘ NSS ’ of 26 November 1990 — about the absurdities of punditry . |
| 26 | It is now 16 years since I wrote a book , The Poor of the Earth , to popularise one of the huge international conferences that were common during the seventies , the United Nations ' Second Development Decade . |
| 27 | I located a couple of book reviews I had done on matters to do with the period , one about writers of the thirties , the other about the Mass Observation project , added a letter in which I wrote a little about the book I was writing and sent them off . |
| 28 | I wrote a final letter hoping that when he read my book he would see that I was serious . |
| 29 | I wrote a draft policy and sent it to the radiology department for discussion at their departmental meeting . |
| 30 | I wrote a letter to The Times about this lunacy , and it was picked up and ridiculed by all the national papers . |