Example sentences of "i wrote to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I wrote to the Daily Mail , which is affiliated with Dogs Today , and your magazine very kindly took up the campaign on our behalf . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | I wrote to Dana but got no reply . |
| 6 | The next day I wrote to Mrs Girdlestone ; a nice letter , explaining that Mrs Ross had a daughter living in Scotland , and giving the address . |
| 7 | In the absence of anyone more nearly related I had been designated next-of-kin , and now I wrote to the Court of Protection who had been dealing with her affairs , asking what my responsibilities would be if she died . |
| 8 | Two weeks ago I wrote to the Archbishop of Canterbury suggesting that it was now time for the Church Militant to denounce antibiotics in the same uncompromising terms once used against usury , but I suspect my advice ( admittedly unsolicited ) will go the same way as the seed of Onan . |
| 9 | So I wrote to them . |
| 10 | As I know that many Presbyterian loyalists are decent , courageous Christian men and women , I wrote to the editor and begged to be excused from his dictum . |
| 11 | That 's why I wrote to you about Herr Sussmeyer and enclosed the pubic hair , though I did n't realise it at the time . |
| 12 | But when I wrote to him it did n't work out ; he was much too polite and too adoring I do n't want to be adored , I want to be used and abused , I want to be treated with contempt . |
| 13 | Although I wrote to the Corporation drawing attention to Captain Roskill 's account of the incident , the letter was neither published nor acknowledged — presumably on the basis that the BBC saw no reason why facts should spoil a good story about a ‘ cover-up ’ . |
| 14 | SIR — In February 1987 I wrote to Jimmy Hill with my comments regarding the rules of football . |
| 15 | I wrote to the effect that I did indeed look forward to life with him , and that my guidelines for living were the same as his . |
| 16 | I wrote to my brother two or three days ago and am awaiting an answer . |
| 17 | I wrote to a prospective customer of the OALDCE 3/e Electronic on 19 May and faxed to you his letter in which he asked for a copy of the tape suitable for running on an AT&T machine . |
| 18 | As I wrote to you . |
| 19 | When I wrote to my new employer conveying my regrets at the situation , I received by reply from America instructions to recruit a new staff ‘ worthy of a grand old English house ’ . |
| 20 | I wrote to my tutor at Brasenose asking for advice on what to read , and he suggested some ‘ shorter essays ’ such as Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ( in six volumes ) . |
| 21 | Since neither drug was available commercially , I wrote to the Lederle Laboratories and to the Burroughs Wellcome Company for a supply of methotrexate and 6-MP , respectively . |
| 22 | Axelrod had already begun to think in ESS terms , but I felt that this tendency was so important that I wrote to him suggesting that he should get in touch with W. D. Hamilton , who was then , though Axelrod did n't know it , in a different department of the same university , the University of Michigan . |
| 23 | The grand tour which I wrote to you about has been postponed until we can all come to Johannesburg for discussions . ’ |
| 24 | I wrote to the Earl personally and told him that Brownie Guides are taught to leave behind nothing but their thanks , but received a reply saying that my letter had been passed on to the agent , Mr. Bishop , who handled all such matters . |
| 25 | I wrote to my parents at that address for the next three years . |
| 26 | So I wrote to her to recall pleasant memories of the old prairie days . |
| 27 | I wrote to my Aunt Florence Veness who was now doing private work in Eastbourne . |
| 28 | So I wrote to the London Marathon office . |
| 29 | ‘ When we first moved in over a year ago I wrote to the police in the traffic section at Winchester about the situation in Holybourne , ’ said Mrs. Gilmour . |
| 30 | I wrote to just about everyone I knew , and then I found some great pen pals through a dog magazine . |