Example sentences of "he [verb] write " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm John said he informed me he he 'd stand for Monk again and he I told him to write write a . |
| 2 | Fink 's boss — a crassly stupid studio chief — sets him to work writing a ‘ wrestling picture to star Wallace Berry ’ . |
| 3 | I rap the little hypocrite across the knuckles and tell him to keep writing . ] |
| 4 | Right er you will have gathered probably that Mark wanted to ask a question I 'll let him start written down and also express his concerns here . |
| 5 | The splendours of the landscape surrounding Llanddewi rectory , his boyhood home near Caerleon , and his passion for romantic literature inspired him to begin writing . |
| 6 | It was due in tomorrow and he planned to write it tonight . |
| 7 | b ) A book about the Battle of Thermopylae , which he planned to write after finishing Bouvard et Pécuchet . |
| 8 | He said he planned to write a book about the 1989 protests and that he had no plans to go overseas , as several other released political prisoners have done . |
| 9 | He agreed to write to the Peruvian Government . |
| 10 | His face was white , his hands shook when he tried to write . |
| 11 | He tried to write , but could n't concentrate . |
| 12 | But writing now was not easy for him : he had begun to suffer with arthritis in the year following his retirement , and had had to give up his violin owing to lack of flexibility of his fingers , and as the condition developed , he found writing more and more difficult . |
| 13 | Since then , he has written , among other things , The Mimic Men : while relatively unsuccessful , this is the novel which most resembles Guerrillas , and it undoubtedly ‘ diminishes ’ the politics of emergent countries by raising doubts about the character of their independence and the motives of their leaders . |
| 14 | Amis writes here , as he has written in other books , about the distance between men and women ; here , too , is the trouble that awaits the rational hedonist who deceives the woman he lives with and loves . |
| 15 | In general , though , he has been faithful , in most of what he has written , to a version of the mobile and multiple , mysterious and fugitive self . |
| 16 | He has written for Thames , LWT , ATV , Granada , BBC , Euston and Working Title . |
| 17 | Across the top he has written , ‘ This verges on being in poor taste , but makes a twist and escapes . ’ |
| 18 | He has written to Marstons managing director Michael Hurdle , asking for a meeting to express the branch 's concern . |
| 19 | Scholes 's case is the more telling in that he is far from being a conservative opponent of all recent developments in theory ; he has written favourably of structuralism , and unsympathetically about fictional realism ( for which , indeed , he has been attacked by Tallis ) , and elsewhere in Textual Power he finds deconstructive reading — as opposed to the theory underlying it — a useful critical method . |
| 20 | As for the case made against the versions in the Classic Anthology — that by using rhyme they align themselves with the closed poetry of print and not with the open poetry of the speaking breath — the obvious retort is that , although in these poems Pound often rhymes , he writes them in free verse , and in a free verse where the syllables are weighed , and the varying pace controlled , as scrupulously as in anything else he has written . |
| 21 | For him , to discover a new writer of genius is as satisfying an experience , as it is for a lesser man to believe that he has written a great work of genius himself . |
| 22 | Indeed overall , he says surprisingly little about Grace and next to nothing about the sacramental life ; for these reasons one might regret the title which he gave to the three books gathered into one — Mere Christianity — for it implies that he has written a sort of mini-Summa or encyclopaedia of theology . |
| 23 | Four years later he has written Yul 's biography , which is partly a show biz life and partly a much sharper settling of accounts between father and son . |
| 24 | He produced the unpublished manuscript of a book he has written about his experiment , which he had just had translated into English . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ he has written , ‘ some western writers are longing for subjects provided by violent historical change , but I can assure [ them$ that we , ie , natives of hazy Eastern regions , perceive history as a curse and prefer to restore to literature its autonomy , dignity and independence from social pressures . ’ |
| 26 | All the same , he has written a book committed to proving that Europeans ought to unite . |
| 27 | Edward was born on the third of March , and the advent of spring is a constant theme , and symbol of renewal , in everything he has written . |
| 28 | He has written here a spinningly glorious book . |
| 29 | ‘ She was dynamic , had tremendous energy and was thoroughly decisive , ’ Bramall told me at the launch of a book , The Chiefs , which he has written with Gen Sir William Jackson . |
| 30 | He thinks that he wants a reconciliation , and up to a point he does ; but what he hopes most of all is that Alfred will give his blessing to the new play he has written — a drama of sibling rivalry called Brother Mine . |