Example sentences of "i wrote " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wrote back , Paz said , I told him , Dada dead as dodo eat your hat . |
| 2 | As I wrote to you at the time ( since you refused even then to see me or any of your old friends and supporters ) I accepted the MS as a sacred trust and would do what I could to see that it eventually saw the light of day in the most appropriate form . |
| 3 | Long way to go , I wrote back . |
| 4 | I was surprised to learn that my claim could not be backdated , but I wrote those first three weeks ' money off to inexperience . |
| 5 | Because I became aware of the problems when I first came into gliding , I wrote a booklet on the subject , called Sub-Gravity Sensations and Gliding Accidents ( available from the BGA in the UK and SSA in the USA ) . |
| 6 | I wrote a similar piece entitled ‘ The Grievance Procedure , Step by Step ’ which also went down well . |
| 7 | I wrote the President 's factual brief , did you realise that ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Thank you for coming so quickly , ’ I said to the man as I wrote a cheque . |
| 9 | You may remember that in the December issue of Woodworker last year I wrote about John Makepeace 's new venture , Hooke Park College . |
| 10 | If he read what I wrote , I did not imply that the Nortec tools were inferior and needed adjustment . |
| 11 | ‘ I wrote to the Daily Mail , which is affiliated with Dogs Today , and your magazine very kindly took up the campaign on our behalf . |
| 12 | GRAHAM CHAPMAN and I wrote together almost full time between 1966 and 1973 , writes John Cleese , while producing sketches for The Frost Report , The 1948 Show and Monty Python , as well as several film scripts none of which made their way intact to the silver screen . |
| 13 | It was very much a brash young man 's piece — I was 24 when I wrote it . |
| 14 | SOME 18 months ago I wrote about my own incompetence with and dislike for the microwave oven . |
| 15 | I wrote back asking the reasons for this , pointing out that , if any large modern power station deserved to be listed , it was Bankside . |
| 16 | I wrote back thanking him and assuring him that there were no hard feelings on my part , but my decision is unchanged . |
| 17 | ‘ I wrote it for you , ’ he assures his gal before the ballads , but how can you tell ? |
| 18 | Mr Healey : ‘ I did send her a copy of what I wrote about her to see that she did n't object . |
| 19 | Emergency wanted A few years ago I wrote a little book called Discovering Backpacking . |
| 20 | So , again I wrote , telling the would-be backpacker that having the survival bag was a bit like taking out insurance — it only became useful if he had an emergency . |
| 21 | I did touch on this problem a good many years ago in an essay I wrote on the death of a great music-hall artist , Marie Lloyd . |
| 22 | You 're telling me all this guff and you have n't even read what I wrote . |
| 23 | I wrote to that older brother of yours , ‘ My capabilities are of little matter now ’ , but I suppose I might be as well off writing to myself for all the answer I 'm likely to get . ’ |
| 24 | I wrote him several times and all the answer I ever got was I 'm well-here-and-I-hope-you-are-well-there . |
| 25 | In 1975 a securicor guard at Harmondsworth told me ( as I wrote in an article in the Guardian ) ‘ Sometimes in this place people are naughty and we have to lock them in . ’ |
| 26 | In response to the article on Zahira 's experiences which I wrote in the Guardian I got , in addition to the usual sick and abusive letters from racists , a number of letters from English women who sympathised with Zahira . |
| 27 | ‘ I did n't want to work in a shop or a bank so I wrote to my local radio station , West Sound , asking if I could make the tea . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I wrote about groups involved in protest , revolution and revolt in places like the Middle East — the sub-state actors rather than states . |
| 29 | Obviously , I wrote . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a two-way thing : I had those feelings long before I wrote drafts for the script , but the process of writing and research inflamed them . |