Example sentences of "when he [verb] write " in BNC.
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| 1 | It becomes evident that Julian is a representative figure of the writer when he decides to write a novel ( 82 ) , and Decibel that of the oral media when she declares writing to be her natural enemy ( 186 ) . |
| 2 | When he had written his autobiography a few years earlier , he had started it with the verse : — |
| 3 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |
| 4 | Yet when he came to write the chapters on earthquakes and volcanos in Madam How and Lady Why ( 1869 ) , he could not dismiss from his mind the notion that , underlying the scientific explanation of how these disasters occurred , God must have had a reason for permitting them . |
| 5 | Dostoevsky had come to a very similar conclusion when he came to write about his four years of penal servitude in Siberia : ‘ I felt that work might be the saving of me , might build my health , my body . ’ |
| 6 | He had an engaging manner , a valuable asset when he came to write the diary column . |
| 7 | When he came to write Paradise Lost , Milton on four occasions deliberately spoke in his own person in a way very close to the opening of Lucidas , or to the programme which that last sentence suggests to us . |
| 8 | He had not imagined , when he 'd written the poem four years before , that he would ever be standing here , thinking of the Fall of Man . |
| 9 | When he began writing again , he had given up realism for allegory about the conflict between , among other things , science and religion . |
| 10 | When he started writing , it was the fashion to pretend that they were happy shepherds and shepherdesses , who were always dancing , or anyhow had hearts of gold . |
| 11 | Does n't remember how the word should look , and gets confused when he tries to write it down . |
| 12 | One occasionally has a glimpse of Green 's neighbours after he has been with them , or heard of their deaths , when he liked to write their obituaries . |
| 13 | It 's where he goes when he has to write a speech … ’ |
| 14 | His face was white , his hands shook when he tried to write . |