Example sentences of "when [noun] wrote to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Alcuin wrote to him in exile , probably in 798 , he reminded him of how much blood of kings , princes and people had been shed by him and his family . |
| 2 | on the logo front when Linda wrote to me and said she could n't come to this meeting |
| 3 | When Boniface wrote to other bishops , he had a way of invariably reminding them that Christian authority meant service . |
| 4 | It was a pleasant evening but when Anne wrote to Joe about it , telling him that she had asked Helen and Tony to come , he replied immediately , warning her not to rush things . |
| 5 | When Baudelaire wrote to Manet , ‘ you are only the first in the decrepitude of your art ’ , is he meant presumably to italicize the ‘ your ’ and thus confirm that he , Baudelaire , was the first in the ‘ decrepitude ’ of his own art . |
| 6 | Although I realized that my faulty literary judgment was the occasion for his reaction — for he must have been well-accustomed to reading manuscripts of surpassing dullness — because when lie wrote to Wakefield-Harrey it was in firm but polite terms , which , since they were from Eliot , were to him the next best thing to commendation . |