Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] write [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The defender further averred that on or about 21st May 1973 Macfie & Alexander wrote to Ferguson & Forster offering on behalf of their client , the defender , to sell the farm to the pursuer ; that the offer was dispatched by Macfie & Alexander without informing the defender and contrary to his instructions as telephoned to Mr Rae . |
| 2 | It is said that Freud wrote in a male-dominated society , and that his theory about sexuality , and about female sexuality in particular , reflects this in the male bias in his work . |
| 3 | It is easy in the quest for grave scholarly judgements to forget that Leapor wrote for pleasure . |
| 4 | The one that has the most powerful effect on me is the legend of the Pacific Islanders that Grimble wrote about in his book We chose the Islands . |
| 5 | This house of treasures , the immaterial ideas , the cups of truth that Gide wrote about , cups that can never run dry ! |
| 6 | He excuses Boece 's historical inventions — on account of which his Latin History of Scotland and others have been long dismissed , and now have only curiosity value — by saying that Boece wrote in an age when all men , owing to lack of true knowledge , were credulous , and , dazzled with the light of discovery after such long dark ages , could not see distinctly . |
| 7 | The rate appeared to go up very slightly when the cell was there , but by such a small amount that Palmer wrote in his logbook ‘ You would n't bet on cold fusion on the basis of these results ; but neither would you bet against it . ’ |
| 8 | ( Although it was as long ago as 1884 that Marx wrote of the shift from worker as producer to worker as consumer , the degree of expendability of goods and their constant replacement by better and newer models has markedly increased during the latter half of this century . ) |
| 9 | The idea that carried me away was like the invisible seeds that Thoreau wrote about when he was in the swamp . |
| 10 | [ blank to tail properly so Allen writes in yours sincerely and his name ] |
| 11 | It was presumably as a result of this that Palmerston wrote to the Treasury in May 1836 , explaining his views on the new accommodation . |
| 12 | Chadwick implies that musical differences were the cause , saying that Walker 's style was inconsistent with the parts that Guy wrote for him to play . |
| 13 | Although Grace wrote to Charlie every month , she was unable to supply any news on the whereabouts of their father . |
| 14 | Looking at the sorts of things that Paul writes about as well , you 'll see that there is a change in material ; up to now , he has been writing about Christian doctrine . |
| 15 | You do n't need a theological background to see there is a difference between the way that Paul writes in the first part of chapter 15 and in the second . |
| 16 | An early prologue attached to Mark 's Gospel says that Mark wrote after the death of Peter in Italy . |
| 17 | Irenaeus says that Mark wrote after the deaths of Peter and Paul , while Clement of Alexandria stated that the book was written while Peter was still preaching in Rome . |
| 18 | X died in March , but it was close enough for the connection that Eliot wrote of in The Waste Land : |
| 19 | Thérèse became known to Soeur Dosithée only through the letters that Antoinette wrote about her . |
| 20 | Wilkes and Cobbett wrote for a society which still shuddered at the memory of the puritans and their censors , the good people appointed by Cromwell to license and to regulate the press . |
| 21 | Eleanor , Aveling and Liebknecht wrote to another , We have never seen in Europe such wanton interference on the part of the police with the liberty of the subject as we saw today in a country proverbially known as ‘ the land of the free ’ . |
| 22 | Art , Wimsatt and Brooks wrote in their joint history of literary criticism ( 1957 : 743 ) , ‘ ought to have the concreteness which comes from recognizing reality and including it ’ . |
| 23 | Charlotte and Branwell wrote about a country called Angria , while Emily and Anne wrote about a land called Gondal . |
| 24 | The Viscount Massereene and Ferrard wrote in 1973 : |
| 25 | William Elstobb found the eighteenth-century fenmen content with ‘ uncomfortable accommodations ’ ; and Vancouver wrote of Burwell in 1794 : ‘ Any attempt in contemplation for the better drainage of this fen is considered hostile to the true interests of these deluded people . ’ |
| 26 | They were taken deeper into that neighbourhood and Eleanor wrote to her sister Laura in Paris that she considered New York a ‘ very dirty , shoddy town ’ . |
| 27 | On 19 July Roberts and Cross wrote to Dr John Lawrence at SWWA suggesting that the public had been exposed to a more serious hazard than had been admitted : they were told that they could meet Lawrence but he would give them no information . |
| 28 | So as you will see , this leaves a hole as big as a goat 's backside in the programme , and Dulcie wrote to Jas and I that unless one of us would write another ballet , and a longish one at that , the University Ballet would n't be able to go to JHB ! ! ! |
| 29 | The corporation was sustaining appalling production losses and Finniston wrote to each of the trade unions suggesting that they meet on the neutral territory of a Heathrow hotel . |
| 30 | On Sept. 15 Vance and Owen wrote to the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic deploring the bombing of the Bosnian towns of Bihac , Cazin , Sokolac and Dobronica . |