Example sentences of "wrote for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The painter Patrick Heron wrote for the New Statesman in London in the 1950s , and used this technique for writing about Braque , whom he compared with Picasso . |
| 2 | Dostoevsky wrote for Stankevich 's published critical study of Granovsky — ‘ material absolutely indispensable for my work ’ , a life-and-death necessity ‘ like air ’ . |
| 3 | The mingled exasperation and admiration that Pound felt for Binyon are nowhere so explicit and appealing as in what he wrote for Blast ( July , 1915 ) , so as to introduce into that inappropriately vociferous context nine quotations from the demure prose of Binyon 's The Flight of the Dragon . |
| 4 | The shadowy figure of Abimael Guzman , subject of an essay Shakespeare wrote for Granta last year , surfaces here as Presidente Ezequiel , while the ritualistic savagery of Peru is detailed in some brief , shocking images . |
| 5 | They wrote for a small range of specialist titles , some of them bright and poppy , others resoundingly self-important , and all of them perfectly arcane to anyone outside a specific , like-minded clientele . |
| 6 | In desperation he wrote for help to Europe . |
| 7 | His evergreens include I 'll be Seeing You , Katie , Dear Hearts and Gentle People , and I Can Dream , Ca n't I. Among films he scored or wrote for are Hellzapoppin , Anchors Aweigh , Love is a Many Splendored Thing , and Myra Breckinridge . |
| 8 | They had failed to change with the times , so the speeches they wrote for the Queen did her no favours . |
| 9 | This comes out well in The Short Guide to Electioneering , a pamphlet Quintus Cicero wrote for his brother , the Cicero , when he was standing for consul in 63 BC . |
| 10 | I wrote for him the following poem ; it seems to me now rather jejune , but it was the spontaneous overflow from a heart both proud and anxious , and not greatly concerned with turning out a literary exemplar : Parachutists ( for L.G.C. ) |
| 11 | He frequently went on excursions with Hooker and his students , and wrote for over forty years on the geographical distribution of the British flora ( Fletcher , op. cit . ) . |
| 12 | It is easy in the quest for grave scholarly judgements to forget that Leapor wrote for pleasure . |
| 13 | Interest in the grotto and gardens was stirred by SAVE and in particular by an article Eileen Harris wrote for Country Life . |
| 14 | The slanderous epitaph Burns wrote for John Brown of Mauchline could have applied equally as well to the poet himself : |
| 15 | George Orwell wrote for the BBC Overseas Service and made hundreds of radio broadcasts , but no recording of his voice seems to have survived anywhere . |
| 16 | Writers were Tom Leonard , Alasdair Gray and ( he joined us for ‘ The Pie ’ ) Jim Kelman and I. Tom 's black , black ironies and satires on the Lebanon , the New Right , the Media , West of Scotland sectarianism and chauvinism ; Alasdair Gray 's insane Grant family , his moneyed braggarts and blusterers , his quick shifts of dramatic power in curt sketches , his deranged respected old politicos ; Jim Kelman 's surrealist pubs and monologuing gamblers , and grim almost folk tales — like the story of ‘ The Hon ’ that comes up out of the lavatory pan ( ’ Yi nivir know the minit ’ ) meant that the broad rather lightweight stuff I wrote for these revues had plenty of stronger , more solid , meatier material contrasting with it . |
| 17 | Once , middle-class muesli-belt dinner party guests would choke on their chardonnay when they learned I wrote for the Sun . |
| 18 | For example , in his chemistry exam John wrote for the first three answers blank , ether and litmus test . |
| 19 | Chadwick implies that musical differences were the cause , saying that Walker 's style was inconsistent with the parts that Guy wrote for him to play . |
| 20 | In ‘ God 's Cop ’ , Mark Day 's guitar is raw and rasping like it eats ten jangly guitars for breakfast ; rhythm and booze at its best , but gelling easily with the older , classic Bez-dance tunes ‘ Hallelujah ’ and ‘ Wrote For Luck ’ , both still mesmeric , especially with tonight 's flashy light show , and ‘ Step On ’ still makes a stomping lingering finale . |
| 21 | The first piece I wrote for the New Statesman , almost exactly four years ago , began : ‘ People keep asking me , ‘ On what platform will you be standing for deputy leader of the Labour Party ? ' |
| 22 | She neither wrote for the student magazine , nor was particularly remembered . |
| 23 | ( Many of the pieces Mozart wrote for his wife , including another set of piano and violin sonatas , remained unfinished , and some biographers have interpreted this as a symptom of Mozart 's early disillusionment with his marriage . |
| 24 | Two of them , which he wrote for Winchester College , ‘ Awake my soul and with the sun ’ and ‘ Glory to Thee , my God this night ’ were to become among the best-known hymns of the Church . |
| 25 | Gone is the Mondays ' rough and tumble free-for-all of , say , ‘ Wrote For Luck ’ , replaced by the spliffed-out , laid-back groove and surprisingly sexy undercurrent of ‘ Stinkin' , Thinkin ’ ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I was 21 when I first wrote for the NME . |
| 27 | FORMER PRISONER-OF-CONSCIENCE MEETS MEMBERS OF THE HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM GROUP WHO WROTE FOR HIS RELEASE FOR THREE YEARS |
| 28 | We 've not been let down once since ‘ Wrote For Luck ’ ; danceable with brilliant lyrics , every one . |
| 29 | But in the article he wrote for NME two weeks back , Bill was understandably cynical about the whole two-party farce . |
| 30 | Only time will tell but at least it is a step in the right direction and certainly in line with the views expressed by Mary Joe Fernandez in a splendidly reasoned and cogent article which she wrote for The New York Times at the end of last year . |