Example sentences of "[adv] wrote to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before reaching London , Gloucester apparently wrote to the council and to the city 's mayor , explaining that he had taken possession of the prince because the circle around the boy had been inimical to the safety of king and kingdom . |
| 2 | Before reaching London , Gloucester apparently wrote to the council and to the city 's mayor , explaining that he had taken possession of the prince because the circle around the boy had been inimical to the safety of king and kingdom . |
| 3 | It thereupon wrote to all institutions offering advanced work asking them to provide detailed information about student numbers and other aspects of planning forward to 1984–5 . |
| 4 | When the army ousted the Rump in October 1659 he and a group of other naval officers then ashore wrote to Monck in Scotland , urging him to accept the coup , arguing that divisions would only play into the hands of the cavaliers . |
| 5 | As he no longer wrote to relatives or old war comrades , he explained stiffly , ‘ I 'm expecting word from my daughter in London . |
| 6 | She no longer wrote to Ferdinando nor to anyone else except Ellen and these were dutiful enquiries after Oreste 's health with reports of her own and Pilade 's . |
| 7 | It was important for Oreste 's sake to keep good relations and so with a good deal of lip-biting and general effort of control she finally wrote to her sister in most moderate terms expressing surprise , confessing intense distress , but apportioning no blame . |
| 8 | Over the years she had become a stranger to us , her sisters tending to avoid her ; all but my mother , who still wrote to her at Christmas-time . |
| 9 | When they arrived home , Liz quickly wrote to the curator of the castle 's museum to ask for a pattern of the dress , only to be told that it had been copied from an 1898 issue of the London Illustrated News . |
| 10 | He quickly wrote to London to apologise , and asked if he might use Dr. Watt 's " Short View of the Whole Scripture History " , asserting that " the author was a Dissenter , and the introduction of it into the School is not likely to create any fresh difficulty " . |
| 11 | Neither could I conceal that although I wrote to my parents once a week ( a school rule ) they scarcely ever wrote to me , and failed to send me the necessary supplies of toothpaste , stockings , etc. , so that I was always having to borrow from other girls ( strictly against the rules ) and getting into trouble as a result . |
| 12 | No one ever wrote to him . |
| 13 | ‘ I want to know if you ever wrote to him and asked him to meet you . ’ |
| 14 | McMurdo likes to joke about an apocryphal exchange of letters with the Celtic chairman Jack McGinn , who once wrote to McMurdo telling him he was ‘ persona non grata ’ at the club . |
| 15 | Elizabeth 's friend Maud must have said something of this sort , for I find I once wrote to her : ‘ Maud was right , I think . |
| 16 | Forster once wrote to me that he knew Ivy 's characters were good as well as clever ; they are a great deal better than anyone in his books . |
| 17 | A woman once wrote to me , desperately upset , because , while going through her dead husband 's effects , she 'd found love letters he 'd written to another woman . |
| 18 | She knows , now , who was the mystery woman in her husband 's other life — not , as it turns out , the Griselda who once wrote to him . |
| 19 | Galliéni at once wrote to Joffre , calling for a full report . |
| 20 | Mr Tam Dalyell , Labour MP for Linlithgow , yesterday wrote to Mr Patten demanding a full statement on the inspectorate in the wake of Mr Ponsford 's death . |
| 21 | ATORY MP yesterday wrote to the Home Secretary , Mr David Waddington , the BBC chairman , Mr Marmaduke Hussey , and the IBA chairman , Mr George Russell , demanding an urgent investigation into the preponderance of broadcasting recruitment advertising placed with the Guardian . |
| 22 | THE Environment Secretary , Mr Chris Patten , yesterday wrote to Mr Neil Kinnock , the Labour Party leader , demanding that he dissociate himself from proposals designed to stop the growth of second homes . |
| 23 | Rod Richards , Tory MP for Clwyd North West , yesterday wrote to the Ambassador requesting the meeting , at which he also wishes to be present . |
| 24 | The chairman of the Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors Opencast Coal Committee , John Chance , yesterday wrote to Mr Heseltine expressing contractors ' fears over unemployment in the industry . |
| 25 | 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 : |
| 26 | Collinson had told John Bartram to consult this work in the library before sending him a personal copy in 1737 and two years later wrote to the American collector : |
| 27 | Jones now sailed on through the North Sea , towards England , his progress marked by a trail of prizes which were sent back to France , his own ships , as he later wrote to Louis XVI , being ‘ weakened and embarrassed with prisoners ’ , whom he still hoped to exchange for Americans . |
| 28 | His Permanent Secretary at that time was my cousin Wilfrid Bourne , and this is what he later wrote to me : |
| 29 | Lear later wrote to his former employer from the safety of Rome . |
| 30 | Prince later wrote to Gould when he was in Australia , complaining that Alfred Newton had been ‘ far , far too complimentary ’ about Lear 's part in the publication , ‘ particularly when we know that most of the subscribers are of the opinion that his plates are almost the only exceptionable part of your work . ’ |