Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] written a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( HARRIET ) The author 's an ex-army captain who 'd never written a word before , but his first novel is set to make him millions . |
| 2 | He had already written a note to Becky — with a little help from Father O'Malley — instructing her to sell the shop along with the two barrows if she possibly could and to hold on to his share of the money until he came back to Whitechapel . |
| 3 | Today was Saturday and she had not written a word since Thursday morning . |
| 4 | Some said the sport came from the Norsemen , others muttered about the Romans who after all had been in the area for several centuries and left little else but stone , and one literary aficionado had just written a treatise tracing it back in direct line to Jacob 's wrestling with the angel . |
| 5 | What was really said on that occasion is not on record but Wilberforce had just written a long review of Darwin 's book in the Quarterly Review and from this it seems clear that the good Bishop was by no means the fundamentalist reactionary which he is commonly supposed to have been . |
| 6 | The Notts archives were invaluable in producing his two books on touring teams : ‘ Nobody had ever written a book on cricket tours and I reaped the benefit of all my early digging again . ’ |
| 7 | Anne had once written a piece about prison conditions . |
| 8 | Franklin had once written a letter to Sir Ralph which the Member thought highly offensive and relations between them had since remained frigid . |
| 9 | ( Ash had also written a poem about Gibbon and one about the Venerable Bede , historians of greatly differing kinds . |
| 10 | V. P. Singh had also written a letter to Lal acknowledging his services to the government and party and suggesting on the issue of Chauthala 's future that the " best course " would be to discuss the matter within Janata Dal . |
| 11 | Russ had also written a number of uncovered personal cheques himself , despite not having an account at the bank , and had ignored auditors ' advice to stop abusing his position at the bank . |
| 12 | Several months ago at a party I asked him why he had n't written a book about his years in the Himalaya . |
| 13 | She was an idiot , coming apart at the seams , and she had n't written a word . |
| 14 | Broderick had even written a letter expressing his sympathy to the victims ' family . |
| 15 | He had even written a letter to The Times ( one of his favourite pastimes ) , deprecating " The Television Habit " . |
| 16 | She had earlier written a report called ‘ Facing the Unbelievable ’ , which told of the ritual abuse of children . |
| 17 | He had previously written a journalistic piece about the killings , in which De Freitas figured as shabby and contemptible , and Gail Benson as a silly upper-class woman whose accessibility to the knife might almost have been construed as a last desperate act of Sixties modishness : an antic exported from Swinging London . |
| 18 | I told him I had recently written a letter . |
| 19 | He had actually written a letter of his own to her . |
| 20 | But the garrison , distressed by the revelation that Dr McNab had actually written a description in his diary of his own wife 's death by cholera , feared that in the case of Dr McNab even the caricature of a Scot might be mild in comparison with the truth ; they could think of few less tantalizing prospects than that their deaths should become medical statistics . |