Example sentences of "[vb pp] a letter " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if they knew that the problem was not resolved a letter arrived yesterday from the headquarters of British Bakeries . |
| 2 | Her jailed former boyfriend , Mohammed Niazy , has recanted a letter he wrote more than a year ago , exonerating the former Middlesbrough pub landlady of all guilt . |
| 3 | In fact , if Matilda 's messenger had n't carried a letter to the Queen explaining the ‘ unfortunate misunderstanding ’ that had resulted in Isabel 's ‘ ill-considered ’ flight from Gloucester with fitzAlan 's assistance , she was quite sure William of Ypres would have clapped her into prison until he had verified her story for himself . |
| 4 | I would have expected a letter from him . |
| 5 | Izetbegovic on Aug. 3 had addressed a letter to the UN Security Council in which he demanded that the government of Bosnia-Hercegovina be allowed to import arms in order to " achieve the right to individual and collective self-defence " guaranteed by Article 51 of the UN Charter . |
| 6 | Erm and then we 've just done a letter to them with the new prices . |
| 7 | ‘ I have written a letter , ’ Kezia replied in a whisper . |
| 8 | To Warnie , he had written a letter fall of the gravest admonitions , designed to make him think carefully about what he was committing himself to . |
| 9 | Yet now , three and a half years after Debbie was discharged from hospital , her mother has written a letter to the authorities , bitterly criticising them for ‘ bad planning , no comprehension and dismissive attitudes ’ . |
| 10 | Saga informs us that it has written a letter of complaint to the Minister of Tourism for Cyprus , and that the hotel will not be in next year 's brochure . |
| 11 | He had actually written a letter of his own to her . |
| 12 | The storm over the ‘ Squidgy ’ tapes kept the pressure on their marriage , and the paperback version of Morton 's book was published last month with a new chapter which alleged Prince Philip had written a letter to Diana in June . |
| 13 | Broderick had even written a letter expressing his sympathy to the victims ' family . |
| 14 | And then your editor goes on Jonathan Ross ' show and humiliates him more ( I have written a letter to Ross as well , for laughing at Jason like that ) . |
| 15 | USARFU president Ian Nixon has also written a letter to the International Rugby Board , requesting that the IRB seek recognition from the International Olympic Committee as rugby 's sole worldwide governing body ; the other key step to providing rugby nations with access to Olympic funds . |
| 16 | Software602 sales manager Jan Muhlfeit said that the teenagers , all aged between 16 and 18 , had written a letter to the Alliance apologising for their actions — they claimed they did not know that they were doing anything wrong . |
| 17 | Milton had written a letter to one of the Stirlingshire lairds , assuring him of his friendship and advising him that one of the laird 's sons had been given a post as a salt officer . |
| 18 | Anna went down the road to post her letter , for she had written a letter to accompany the cheque , in which she reiterated her sorrow about the death of the cat and added that if there was anything she could do , Miss Jakob had only to let her know . |
| 19 | Chris had written a letter to Tina Jelly in Aldershot saying that he still loved her and missed her a lot , but was sure that until he came home she would be able to go out with his mates from the Royal Signals . |
| 20 | During a visit to him there , Mary is supposed to have written a letter to Bothwell which , discovered later in a silver casket with some poems in French and a written agreement to marry Bothwell , pointed clearly to her complicity in a plot to murder her husband . |
| 21 | When in April 1949 Mary Trevelyan had written a letter in which she explained her feelings for him , and in fact suggested marriage , he explained in his reply that although he valued her friendship he was no longer capable of reciprocating such feelings for anyone . |
| 22 | He had even written a letter to The Times ( one of his favourite pastimes ) , deprecating " The Television Habit " . |
| 23 | He has written a letter to his director of pollution control , suggesting two or three p.p.m. which has been returned with the annotation ‘ proceed as indicated ’ . |
| 24 | I mean I mean I 've written a letter to my cousins in South Wales asking them if they can point me at any places that might record , but I 'll actually make the contacts . |
| 25 | That same night he had written a letter which she first saw on opening her eyes , which she had read over her coffee , wearing , she remembered now , her new negligee with its neck of coral swansdown . |
| 26 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 27 | I 've written a letter to my Member of Parliament , but I want it to be clear at headquarters . ’ |
| 28 | I told him I had recently written a letter . |
| 29 | 14.45 : Secretary informed me that Class Teacher had written a letter to parent of child with Head Lice to replace one written by Head . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've already written a letter , and if you do n't help me , I 'll have to send it . |