Example sentences of "wrote to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had copied out the names and addresses of everyone who wrote to them and enclosed the list with a message of thanks and good wishes , asking that it be sent on . |
| 2 | The South Korean authorities wrote to AI in response to its appeals for imprisoned artist Hong Song-dam and publisher Chang Ui-gyun . |
| 3 | Each Amnesty member participating in letter-writing actions and each local group involved in adopting or investigating a prisoner case is a researcher of potential new information : as part of their campaign to free Sudanese POC Bashir Abdelrahim , members of the Leamington and Kenilworth group wrote to the Prison Commander at Shalla Prison , where Bashir was held , in the remote Western Sudan . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A very old friend of the family wrote to me when each of my parents died , and from her I had learnt that Sarah had decided to have no more children after Emma , and that Emma had gone to medical school so she is presumably now a doctor somewhere . |
| 6 | A police graduate I met at a seminar on ‘ Research into the Police ’ , which we had both attended in a private capacity and without force blessing or financial assistance , later wrote to me : |
| 7 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 8 | In her living room she took the bundle of replies to her ad in the New Statesman , settled at her desk and wrote to Michael who was an architect and described himself as outgoing . |
| 9 | On odd days , a young woman who had gone to work as a governess at a remote Scottish house wrote to an employer she never saw about portraits which moved in the middle of the night and which , the governess wrote , appeared to speak monosyllabic expressions of agony . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I wrote to the Daily Mail , which is affiliated with Dogs Today , and your magazine very kindly took up the campaign on our behalf . |
| 13 | The novelist is now of course in middle age , but right back in his teens he wrote to his brother ‘ Man is a mystery ’ , adding that a lifetime spent trying to unravel the mystery would not be wasted . |
| 14 | In defensive mood , and not with complete truth , Dostoevsky wrote to Katkov : ‘ I do not know and never have known either Nechaev or Ivanov , or the circumstances of the murder , except from the newspapers . |
| 15 | Eliot , distressed , wrote to Wilson and to another of his champions , Gilbert Seldes , protesting that he did not want to be praised at Pound 's expense since be was indebted to Pound ( as indeed his dedication to Pound as il miglior fabbro had elegantly acknowledged ) . |
| 16 | The king wrote to his bride-to-be : ‘ I promise to take you as my only lover , banishing from my mind and heart all others and serving only you . ’ |
| 17 | Shah said he wrote to Knighton when his offer to buy out the shareholding of United 's chief executive , Martin Edwards , was first made public , and received a phone call last Friday from Knighton , who asked him if he wanted to participate in the deal . |
| 18 | Trustees representing substantial Ferranti family interests wrote to Sir Derek asking for the board to be replaced or supplemented by new directors . |
| 19 | Julia Noon , aged 12 , of St Anne 's on Sea , Lancashire , took the politic and patriotic route and wrote to 10 Downing Street to find out the Prime Minister 's favourite foods . |
| 20 | But Margaret Thatcher wrote to Paul Flynn , their MP , in July saying : ‘ The concerns you express are without foundation . |
| 21 | The presidents of El Salvador , Nicaragua , Honduras , Guatemala and Costa Rica wrote to Mr Perez de Cuellar in March , requesting the establishment of Onuca . |
| 22 | But , according to documents revealed in court yesterday , four days later Lord Aldington 's V Corps wrote to Eighth Army requesting ‘ a free hand ’ to use force if necessary ‘ to honour our verbal agreement with Soviet forces ’ and return all Soviet nationals to Soviet forces . |
| 23 | Brady explained : ‘ Jack Charlton wrote to me , saying he was sorry about the way it had ended and expressing the hope that we could still have a decent relationship . |
| 24 | He wrote to Fisher that while she might never be strong , her health did not depend upon locality . |
| 25 | His mind filled with primitive lore and with a sense of awkwardness at the numerous exhausting social roles he had to play in addition to that of the London banker , Eliot wrote to Mary Hutchinson in 1920 worrying about his inherited characteristics and suggesting that he might be a savage himself . |
| 26 | He wrote to Stead in April 1928 that he felt that for reasons of compensation he required the most ascetic and violent form of discipline , and discussed having to come to terms with celibacy as a Christian . |
| 27 | In 1930 , though , Eliot wrote to Dobrée that he thought order and authority dangerous catchwords and was horrified at the modern scorning of democracy ; he worried about the way national and racial characteristics were becoming contested issues . |
| 28 | The next year he wrote to Stead of having lived almost entirely in towns and , though not lacking in a feeling for nature , tending to go back to his memories of Missouri and New England for natural images . |
| 29 | To make his tributes to earlier cities complete , before returning to Cambridge and Boston in 1932 he wrote to a correspondent in St Louis in 1930 , telling him how much his poetry owed to his childhood there . |
| 30 | While publishing Dawson on ‘ Religion and the Totalitarian State ’ , he selected for notice in the 1934 Criterion a book highlighting persecution of European Jews ; he wrote to Pound speaking of his offence at Pound 's antisemitic remarks ; with regard to the Vichy government in 1941 he wrote in The Christian News-Letter of his ‘ greatest anxiety ’ at news ‘ that ‘ Jews have been given a special status , based on the laws of Nuremberg , which makes their condition little better than that of bondsmen . ’ |