Example sentences of "[pron] wrote the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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
2 I wrote the poem Zenobia while staying on the Greek island of Crete .
3 I 've got one I meant to put on the main agenda and I forgot , and I wrote the agenda .
4 I took a taxi to a hotel , and I wrote the name , ‘ Edward Pinkhammer ’ , in the hotel book .
5 I found a photograph of Paul as a baby in one of the albums I kept in the loft , and after the ceremony I wrote the name of the new catapult on the back of the picture , scrunched it up around a steelie and secured it with a little tape , then went down , out of the loft and the house , into the chill drizzle of a new day .
6 By the way , after writing to you on Sunday , the mood came , and I wrote the story of Kheydius , 12 close pages , straight off , almost satisfactorily , too .
7 I wrote the music for a contemporary ballet earlier this year .
8 So I wrote the epilogue in Christian 's book , bringing his account up to date .
9 In my diary , some time after our first meeting , I wrote the date of Dana 's birthday .
10 I wrote the fiction criticism for Time and Tide . ’
11 I wrote the part for him .
12 I told them briefly about Fibonacci and I wrote the sequence up to 8 on the blackboard .
13 I wrote the President 's factual brief , did you realise that ? ’
14 I wrote the lyrics and Harry Pryce composed the music for a theme song for ‘ From Leicester Square to Broadway ’ .
15 ‘ Perhaps we should encourage young novelists ’ ; ‘ the Booker Prize is a media junket ’ ; ‘ actually , I 'm here because I wrote the book ’ .
16 I say in my introduction that I wrote the book partly because I was annoyed that people thought I was only interested in representation .
17 The fact that I wrote the book may have suggested that I spoke a lot about private things , but that is not really what I mean by privacy in one 's life .
18 I had n't read pornography until I wrote the book and when I read it I found it was so badly written it meant nothing to me .
19 We began to work on two hander pieces — she took the pictures , I wrote the words .
20 When I wrote the entry on Hayward for the DNB , I found this made my task difficult .
21 When I wrote the program , I never thought that it would evolve anything more than a variety of tree-like shapes .
22 Then I was showered with the realisation that I had spent half a working day thinking these thoughts , during which time , if I had put a foot wrong , I would have immediately proved , to some people 's satisfaction , the innate unsuitability of women for this kind of work ; and that clinched it ; and I wrote the letter and confirmed the complaint .
23 BELVILLE : I would have it tomorrow , being Monday , for on a Monday seven weeks ago , I planned to carry her off and on a Monday I wrote the letter which prevailed on her so kindly to return to me .
24 I wrote the letter in February when there was a real chance we might not make it . ’
25 I wrote the paper for it — it 's still in my desk , signed and dated , to prove it . ’
26 Yeah , I I wrote the thing as you remember about eighteen months ago , but it had no conflict in it you know we 're all the same and stories must have conflict , so I got the house to burst the ceiling on the wife
27 Here are two more facts to think about , discovered since I wrote the article .
28 Look , I 'll find I 'll find who wrote the letters .
29 In the days before packages were available , it was he who wrote the programs for LETGEN ( for letter generation ) and later designed E-Mail ( our electronic mailing system ) and Viewdata ( the facilities used by agents ) .
30 If , as the sub who wrote the title suggests , there is another side to the truth , then we would be happy I first of all , and then those who admire Manzoni to see reliable and contemporary documents which prove it .
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