Example sentences of "in his diary " in BNC.
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| 1 | 14 October , 1969 TONY BENN records in his diary : ‘ In the evening Caroline and I went to Number 10 for a dinner for the American astronauts , the first three men to have been on the moon . |
| 2 | As Chancellor of the Exchequer , in the Seventies , had n't Mr Healey often written in his diary that he 'd gone to bed dog-tired ? |
| 3 | The Master recorded in his diary : ‘ Michael , a distressing object , so sharp-faced , dull-eyed , spotted ’ . |
| 4 | He brought with him his wife Margot , whom Benson in his diary described as very witch-like . |
| 5 | ‘ I could not help recalling , ’ Sir Maurice Hankey , the Cabinet Secretary , wrote in his diary in September , ‘ that on the last day of Parliament Mr. Baldwin had walked across the yard outside [ the House of Commons ] and had said ‘ I will do everything I can to help the Government in making economies , but I will not enter a Coalition Government . ' |
| 6 | MacDonald saw the King at 10.30 a.m. and told him , as he recorded in his diary , |
| 7 | Amery wrote in his diary on 25 August : ‘ Milner once remarked to me in South Africa about the Cabinet of his day , how difficult it was to keep a lot of empty sacks standing up straight … . |
| 8 | On 26 September , before the Cabinet had seriously begun to consider whether an election should be called , Snowden declared that an early election could not be avoided ; and on 2 October , Neville Chamberlain noted in his diary , ‘ Snowden expressed strongly the view that imports must be controlled ’ . |
| 9 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |
| 10 | It was ‘ perfectly beastly ’ as Warnie said in his diary , to see ‘ P's grave with its fresh turned earth and a handful of withered daffodils at its head alongside Mamy 's . |
| 11 | And in his diary he wrote , ‘ It 's lovely having him here , we 've had so many cosy talks . |
| 12 | Whether it was the Trooping of the Colour , a state visit , or Remembrance Sunday , whatever the time or day of the week , the dates were in his diary and he was on parade without fail and without question . |
| 13 | ‘ What infinite variety presents itself in this enchanting spot , ’ wrote Abbot in his diary on first seeing it . |
| 14 | Richard Crossman , the Labour minister who introduced a failed attempt at morning sittings in 1967 , wrote in his diary about the reaction of fellow cabinet ministers ( ‘ It 's asking a terrible lot of us … |
| 15 | There was much hilarity when Geoffrey steamed in ten minutes late pleading a mix-up in his diary . |
| 16 | He recorded in his diary that he thought it represented such a threat to the good name of politicians that a special regulatory authority should be set up to stop the BBC ever doing anything so wicked again . |
| 17 | STUART SURRIDGE , who died aged 74 at his home in Wimbledon on Monday , wrote in his diary when appointed captain of Surrey in 1952 that the county would be champions for the next five years . |
| 18 | E W Swanton writes : Alec Bedser has recorded how , before W S Surridge started his first season as captain , he made this entry in his diary : ‘ Surrey will be champions for the next five years . ’ |
| 19 | John Evelyn recorded in his Diary , August 6 , 1685 : |
| 20 | They had a long discussion on the longevity of seeds and no doubt Kalm delighted in the Dictionary and later set out in his Diary a splendid commendation : |
| 21 | The Duke told him he had given the trees priority over the house because they took longer to become established , but Kalm drily commented in his diary that his wealth was such that he could have built ‘ a most handsome castle in one year or less ’ . |
| 22 | That evening he wrote in his diary . |
| 23 | That night Endill wrote in his diary . |
| 24 | Endill made drawings of his plane in his diary and on large pieces of paper . |
| 25 | That night Endill wrote in his diary . |
| 26 | Rommel , indeed , put the blame on the Italians for leaking secrets : ‘ We know from experience , ’ he wrote in his diary , ‘ that Italian headquarters can not keep things to themselves , and that everything they wireless to Rome gets to British ears . ’ |
| 27 | On his 25th birthday he noted in his diary , ‘ Not very cheerful . |
| 28 | Meintjies was equally impressed by John , writing in his diary that this ‘ young ballet dancer and choreographer , who is undoubtedly brilliant , dominated the guests — although he is only seventeen . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I never saw such good use made of knives and forks before … ’ recorded a P & O passenger in his diary of a voyage east in the 1860s . |
| 30 | In his diary for August , 1915 , Sadler wrote ‘ Better education is vital in England ’ ; it was necessary for trade competition , efficient use of resources , and for class co-operation . |