Example sentences of "i [vb past] write to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ventured to write to her , offering to send my manuscript if she wished , for ( as I said ) it would be a pity to make mistakes about a living writer who was there to correct them . |
| 2 | But undeterred by background or family opinion , I 'd written to the BBC to let them know of my ambitions to be a broadcaster — and was dismissed without benefit of an interview . |
| 3 | I 'd written to them , and I feel they may have got the letter in time . ’ |
| 4 | The greatest human being I ever met , Bill Shankly , sent me a letter 20 years ago , after hearing I 'd written to Harold Wilson demanding to know why he had n't been honoured . |
| 5 | William and I decided to write to Prince Charles because we know he loves the countryside . |
| 6 | Putting my point across verbally at meetings without notes has never been my forte , which is why I decided to write to the editor of Gay Scotland in the hope that the situation would change for the better . |
| 7 | I decided to write to the Grocers ' Company about the matter . |
| 8 | I decided to write to Practical PC in the hope that you might be able to solve this minor mystery . |
| 9 | The problems of Russia suddenly became topical two years ago at school , and although I 'd grown up with a faint mistrust of ‘ Commies ’ , in 1988 I started writing to Murat , a young Russian . |
| 10 | Most of the materials sent from home were actually from England , so I started to write to everyone there . |
| 11 | In addition to these , blend dare has also been found with the bare infinitive in a number of other categorizable contexts , all of which can also be shown to be somehow non-assertive : ( 59 ) I only wish I dared write to him . |
| 12 | ‘ I did write to them but I was just snubbed . ’ |
| 13 | I did write to Leeds once in my youth ( about 6 ! ) asking for a trial . |
| 14 | Secondly I did write to all the members of the Council about the issue of the British National Corpus and their desire to have a record of English as she is spoke and their is a gentleman from here today , if you would care to stand up to identify yourself please . |
| 15 | Can I just say that after the last meeting and you urging us all to write I did write to them . |
| 16 | In a duty report to my chief constable I mentioned I had written to Police Review . |
| 17 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 18 | I had written to hundreds of firms asking for material support , and had asked royalty , influential people and famous explorers to lend their names to a list of patrons , but all without success . |
| 19 | I wished that I had written to the two women about Donald 's death , and that I was not now obliged to tell them of it . |
| 20 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 21 | I clutched to me the note I had written to Sylvia Grey . |
| 22 | I had not told my Reed cousins about our wedding , but I had written to my uncle , John Eyre , in Madeira . |
| 23 | I had written to the South African Cricket Union asking for his address and , some weeks later and to my great delight , a letter arrived from Geoff Griffin himself ! |
| 24 | Some months earlier I had written to Sir Sidney Barton who , fortunately for me , was still British Minister in Addis Ababa , asking him to obtain the Emperor 's permission for me to follow the Awash river through the Danakil country to discover where and how it ended . |
| 25 | I had written to him in Edinburgh when he was in Belgium , to Belgium when he was in France and to France the very moment he arrived back in Edinburgh . |
| 26 | I felt I had to write to your readers as an unbiased outsider , although I am an avid reader of your magazine . |
| 27 | I had to write to the next of kin . |
| 28 | I had to write to the family with the new material ; they reacted in different ways , a mixture of distress and anger . |
| 29 | if he did I had to write to out for him . |
| 30 | I said I wished to write to the gentleman . |