verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a writing desk (= that you use for writing letters etc )
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Under the window was a small writing desk.
a writing/painting/dancing etc competition
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Greg won the school public-speaking competition.
a written agreement
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There is usually a written agreement between the borrower and the bank.
a written apology
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The police sent a written apology to the family.
a written confession
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A police interview may lead to a written confession.
a written constitution
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A written consitution forms the fundamental law of the nation.
a written contract
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All employees should have a written contract.
a written exam
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There is a written exam at the end of the course.
a written inquiry
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I submitted a written inquiry to the local council.
a written record
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Where written records do survive, they are incomplete.
a written report
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Mr Thomas asked me to send him a written report.
a written request
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If you wish to take you child on holiday during the school term, you must make a formal written request.
a written statement
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One neighbour said in a written statement that she often heard a baby ‘crying for help’.
a written test
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Selection was based on written tests in English and mathematics.
a written/oral examination
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For French, there is an oral and a written examination.
creative writing
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I teach creative writing at Trinity College.
keep/write a diary (= write regularly in a diary )
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While I was travelling, I kept a diary every day.
make/draw up/write a list
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Could you make a list of any supplies we need?
official/written/formal notification
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We received official notification that Harry was missing.
piece of music/writing/sculpture etc
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some unusual pieces of sculpture
reading/writing etc material(s)
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Videos often make good teaching material.
reading/writing skills
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Their reading skills are poor.
sth is written all over sb’s face (= their feelings can be seen very clearly in their expression )
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You’re jealous – it’s written all over your face!
talk/speak/write etc freely
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In France he could write freely, without fear of arrest.
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We went outside so that we could talk freely without being overheard.
write a book
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He’s written several interesting travel books.
write a chapter
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He wrote the first chapter 20 years before the book was published.
write a column
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He writes a column on gardening for the Daily News.
write a letter
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He wrote a letter inviting her to visit.
write a play
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So far, he has written three plays.
write a poem
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I’ve been writing short stories and poems for years.
write a prescription ( also write out a prescription )
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I'll write you a prescription for some skin cream.
write a program
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They learned how to write their own programs.
write a report
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Her social worker has written a report on the case.
write a story
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The story was written by Lewis Carroll.
write an account
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He later wrote an account of his experiences during the war.
write an email
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Jack spent the evening writing emails and surfing the Internet.
write off/cancel a debt (= say officially that it does not have to be paid )
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The bank finally agreed to write off the debt.
write (out) a cheque
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I had to write a cheque for £360 yesterday.
write poetry
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I didn't know you wrote poetry.
write sth in code
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All the information we received during the war was written in code.
write (sth) in your diary
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‘Severe weather’, he wrote in his diary that day.
write the answer
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Do we write the answers in the exercise book, Sir?
write up notes (= write down what your notes say, using full sentences and more detail )
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It’s a good idea to write up your notes soon after a lecture.
write/compose a song
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Do they write their own songs?
write/compose a tune
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They wrote many great tunes together in the 80s.
write/compose music
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He composed the music for the 'Lord of the Rings' films.
write/design/develop software
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He designs software for an Atlanta-based company.
write/do an article
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The Times have asked me if I will do an article on the election.
write/do an essay
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I’ve got a 3,000 word essay to write before Friday.
write/draw up/prepare a draft (= write one )
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Always write a rough draft of your essay first.
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He drew up a draft of the club’s rules and regulations.
writing desk
writing paper
writing/note paper (= good quality paper for writing letters )
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Can you fetch me a piece of writing paper and a pen?
writing/sketch/memo/legal etc pad
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a box of paints and a sketch pad
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Keep a telephone pad and a pen to hand.
written consent
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If you are under 18, you need your parents’ written consent to get married.
written instructions
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Each member of the team was issued with written instructions.
written permission
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Doctors need written permission from the patient before they can operate.
wrote...piece
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Robert wrote a short piece on the earthquake.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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The story you choose should reflect the theme you want to write about .
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Red writes about feeling tired before the game, about feeling sick.
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Since that, we'd been touring constantly and written about twenty-five songs.
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Some students may write about the avoidance of a major depression, others about the decision to focus on high employment.
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Parents and step-parents are increasingly writing about step-family life in an attempt both to warn parents and inform practitioners.
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Is this the dual consciousness W E. B. DuBois wrote about ?
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I have seen Shiraz and its roses and nightingales, which Gide wrote about but did not see.
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I write about how I have to write about my life to give it some shape, some order.
down
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Its prime target is an audience of decision makers whose names you can write down on a single sheet of paper.
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More interesting are problems where the answers can be written down , and even checked for correctness, in polynomial time.
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As they searched, they wrote down in a notebook details of all the things they found.
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I bought myself a notebook in which to write down ideas, themes.
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It was later written down in two books called the Mishnah and the Talmud.
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Anyway, Peter also had me write down some descriptions of the other members of the management committee.
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In normal speech, not all letters written down are sounded.
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Starting with: what did the doctors write down and not write down; what tests did they do and not do?
off
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As a result Ferranti had to write off £215million, reissue its annual report and negotiate financial support from its bankers.
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Many entrepreneurs expect to write off all their expenses.
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This increase did not account for almost £200 million written off through a change in accounting practices.
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They could write off all investments in the year they are made rather than spreading them out over a period of years.
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Back at the castle, Oyston had already written off the £100,000.
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The saxophonist had written off the States much as the States had written off him.
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The incidence of bad debt, he concluded, was socially unacceptable and financially disastrous. Write off or write back?
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The company said it is taking the $ 20 million charge largely to write off the unit.
to
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For your copy of the latest gift catalogue, please write to .
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It is best to phone the company before you write to find out the name of the person you should write to.
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To obtain a copy, write to or phone during working hours, Monday to Friday.
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To apply, write to:.
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If you have any problems or questions about your pet, write to .
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It is very important that you visit and write to or phone your child as regularly as agreed.
■ NOUN
article
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Nick Dimbleby wrote an article on police Range Rovers.
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Samuel wrote letters to both him and the reporter who wrote the article .
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I was nervous but determined, and came home to write and rewrite the article a dozen times.
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Was he ever sober enough to write the articles he had mentioned the day before?
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To win time and independence Cooley wrote books rather than articles .
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The author writes these articles as an architect in practice.
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Newspapers local, regional and international write admiring articles .
book
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Additionally, he wrote two substantial books .
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What do you think would happen if you wrote a book detailing your snafus?
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They have entered your mind and there they add to the charge with which you are writing your book .
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Sometimes these parents chose books for their children based on levels written on the book covers.
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You knew my husband very well; he wrote a book about waxworks and you helped him with his research.
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Rense, who spent about two years writing the book , says she already has begun work on a second novel.
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Make like you are prospective clients, looking to rent a secluded property to write a book or something.
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Nessim also wrote a book on the issues of life after cancer.
books
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Additionally, he wrote two substantial books .
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He was the man who wrote the books that progressive police departments read to get the answers.
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These are for the two people involved in writing the Project Video books .
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Resnick has written two books recounting Simpsons alleged mistreatment of his wife, who believed that he eventually would kill her.
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But this novel suggests that Rowling still wants to write big books and big cheques.
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I will be invited to present some lectures and some people will write better books and give some better lectures.
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A pledge not to write any more books would have done nicely.
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Q: Do you have any help writing your books ?
column
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He writes a daily showbiz column for them.
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On the board she had written two columns of phrases.
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Sufficient has been written in your columns about the latter match so I will not repeat the facts.
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Herb Caen wrote a column like that.
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Among other old boys: Johnny Giles writes a regular football column in the Daily Mail.
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He writes a monthly column for Wired and was an original investor.
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I'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I'd been writing at all.
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Barry wrote a column about bad songs from the rock era and somehow managed to milk it into a book.
language
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Their written language was the most advanced of the pre-Columbian scripts, and their astronomical knowledge beyond compare.
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The proposal should be written in direct language .
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Being written in different programming languages , there was no literal similarity between the programs.
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In some cases, recent spelling reforms have helped to remedy the existing discrepancies between writing and language .
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It is written in simple non-technical language .
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A weekly publication that analyzes some 1, 700 different stocks, Value Line is written in plain language .
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It will also use ObjectStore to recognise code, data and objects written in different programming languages .
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Some children enter school after having participated in thousands of conversations about how written language tends to go.
letter
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Difficulties have arisen as to whether letters written to Ministers by M.P.s in the course of their duties are covered by absolute privilege.
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If only you could have seen the letter I wrote you about an hour ago!
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As a minimum, each issue of the publication would require another letter written for the occasion as information is requested again.
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The kind of letter writing in question here has nothing at all to do with word processing.
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It was a letter many students were writing , in outrage.
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Most of these letters , written by a friend or neighbor of the person seeking help, were only semiliterate themselves.
music
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Stock, Aitken and Waterman will write the music for the spectacular, which will get under way early in the new decade.
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He has taught himself to paint, to write music , play the flute, to write.
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For many young people now are confidently writing real music , using the idioms that come most naturally to them.
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Haydn wrote symphonies, chamber music , keyboard pieces, operas.
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I write my music on four staves, with indications of course.
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But he also is in a community symphony, plays in the school marching band, and writes music .
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Although he wrote chamber and orchestral music , songs were his true vocation.
name
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You see, when you win the National, you write your name into history.
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People must write her name on the ballot to vote for her.
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Because I was afraid, and tired, and ill, I wrote my name on the letter: Mary.
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She tore two pages from her ledger and wrote his name on one and hers on the other.
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He wrote in the name Hadley on the card.
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He was able to write his name , but in all other respects he behaved like an infant.
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You should write your name and address on the back of these photographs.
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Children who had never heard a bedtime story and could not write their own names were crammed into classrooms by the dozens.
note
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Before they headed onwards, Boswell wrote a note at their unappetising inn.
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But Summerlee was not to be found, and further time was consumed in writing a note for him.
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Ruth finished her coffee and rinsed her cup out before writing a note for Steve.
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Alvin wrote in a note to himself not long after the premiere of Revelations.
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She could have refused to write that note to her parents or walk obediently to the car and climb into the boot.
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During a time of meditation in that retreat, he wrote a note which survived.
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Then write another note with your name.
novel
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Nigel Tranter writes his novels on small cards while out walking.
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Although she has written two novels , the autobiography is her first published work.
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In total he has written five novels , all of which have won literary acclaim and awards.
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The News is now edited by Pete Hamill, who also writes novels .
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In the 1920s and 1930s Nina Boyle wrote a number of novels .
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My experience was limited largely to news and news feature writing until recently, when I ventured to write a novel .
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And he never wrote a novel .
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He became a doctor, and he treated poor people in the daytime, and he wrote grotesque novels all night.
paper
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He was lightly wounded at Detroit and wrote papers on ethnography, as well as collecting specimens wherever his career sent him.
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Passengers were offered a map of the route, postcards of places along the way, and writing paper .
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All investigators contributed to the writing of the paper .
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She wrote a one-page paper on preventative medicine, another on how stuffed animals were made.
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At first he had no press but, undaunted, wrote the paper by hand!
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In 1967, Lovelock wrote two papers predicting that Mars would be lifeless based on his interpretation of its atmosphere.
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Tosh said he didn't like some things that had been written about her in papers .
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Jack put the frustrations of the previous year from his mind and took a sheet of writing paper from his pocket.
piece
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Coffin was still pondering on the significance of what he had seen written on the piece of paper from Place's jacket.
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He takes his time, writing a bittersweet piece that encourages the ex-soldier to stop blaming himself for what happened.
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The marketing department writes the really important pieces .
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Anne had once written a piece about prison conditions.
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I have no evidence, but I think Grandmother must have been set up to be asked to write that piece .
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You said you were going to write a piece on opinion polls and then you wrote a story slandering the Prime Minister.
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I never got involved in this writing or in other pieces like it.
poem
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I've written some much better poems and they threw them back.
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One of my family, Arkady, wrote a poem about it.
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She started to write poems to express her feelings.
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But most enthralling was her attraction to two people for whom she wrote her most ardent poems .
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The ones proving I wrote his poems for him?
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The sight of the flag inspired Francis Scott Key to write the poem that later became our national anthem.
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I stopped writing my own poems .
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I studied painting, composed music, did some woodworking, wrote poems ....
report
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Your syllabus may include slots for the development of certain skills such as listening to lectures or writing reports .
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In the classroom the groups are at work writing a summary report on the area.
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They will be talking to local people, organisations and authorities and writing a report on the route's suitability for upgrading.
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Rice thanked Drake and asked him to prepare a written report with recommendations.
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Be careful when writing: reports are for others, as an aide-memoire is for ourselves.
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Make an abacus and write a report about its usefulness in terms of place value and computation.
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You write reports on what the scope of the project should be and the various ways to tackle the project.
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Co. wrote in a report to clients today.
song
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I wrote all the songs and they were awful but that's the way you mature.
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I had written four or five songs on tour.
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Composer members often only one or two members of the band write songs .
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They began writing songs that afternoon.
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I only write songs about drugs!
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He wrote most of the songs on the album, once waking up at 6 a. m. with inspiration for lyrics.
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If a band don't write their own songs , the manager has to find the right songwriters.
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From that start Leiber and Stoller went on from 1951 to 1956 to write songs rarely heard by whites.
story
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But they should be aimed at if you are writing in short story form the equivalent of the crime novel.
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I try once more to write a story , but can not find the first sentence.
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I would write a story on my new Smith-Corona.
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But Hawthorne wrote great stories , you see, and we still read them now, more than a hundred years later.
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Before I die, I want to write the true story of my life for you.
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I wish I could say that I wrote steadily at the story of my life after that sudden burst of inspiration.
word
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She was an idiot, coming apart at the seams, and she hadn't written a word .
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Suddenly, in writing the words out, I see what she is trying to get us to see.
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They haven't written an original word , or vowel, ha ha ha!
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Even readers whose knowledge of the written word comes from cereal boxes are familiar with metaphors using battlefields and quicksand.
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Today was Saturday and she had not written a word since Thursday morning.
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With this approach, very young children do not write words , but are only drilled on alphabet letters and blends.
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The Bad ` Un's strategy is to prevent the written word from becoming food for hungry souls.
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Without the help of the written word , film and videotape can not portray temporal dimensions with any precision.
■ VERB
begin
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Until he begins to write cheques, i.e. to spend, nothing has happened to the balance sheet.
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They began when I started writing seriously in my late twenties.
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It was time now to begin to write letters.
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Demonstration 1. Begin by writing the term vibration on the board.
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He closed his eyes and began writing in his head.
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Sabi first began writing to his daughter Deena, who was born the summer before his arrest.
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When well on in his 90s, he began writing his memoirs.
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Perhaps I need some time to settle in before I can begin to write .
read
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This afternoon I read what I wrote about G.P. the day before yesterday.
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However, he has difficulty in reading and written expression.
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Should read or write errors occur, this database can be rebuilt from the image copy in conjunction with one of the log files.
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Whok Ianguage means that students learn to read and write by reading and writing, not performing endless drill exercises.
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Then it read through 14,000 written comments.
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Primo reads aloud the words written underneath.
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A model prisoner, he learned to read and write , even publishing a small book of poetry.
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We learned the skills but not the strategies of reading and writing .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be written/set/cast in tablets of stone
in writing
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I don't have anything in writing , but they said they expected me to start work Monday.
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Please confirm in writing the date you intend to leave.
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You should have asked them to put what they agreed in writing .
not worth the paper it is written on/printed on
sth is written in the stars
the writing is on the wall
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The writing is on the wall for old manufacturing industries.
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Although two points clear of the pack, the writing is on the wall for Aberdeen unless some one starts banging goals away.
the written word
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Millions of illiterate Americans do not have access to the written word.
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But literacy and the written word do have a part to play.
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Even readers whose knowledge of the written word comes from cereal boxes are familiar with metaphors using battlefields and quicksand.
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In fact, the 1959 Act has worked to secure a very large measure of freedom in Britain for the written word.
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Not only visual representation, but the written word, too, is not free of imperialism.
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The direct experience of oral communication was displaced by the second-hand experience of the written word.
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They record thoughts which apparently, at some moment in time, seemed worthy of the written word.
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Without the help of the written word, film and videotape can not portray temporal dimensions with any precision.
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WordPerfect word processing software handles both the written word and graphic interpretation with ease.
written test/exam
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After passing the written test, Solomon began his driving lessons.
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Applicants may take a written exam, undergo a preliminary interview, or submit records of their education and experience for evaluation.
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Knowing how to use your head is not a subject you can study for a written exam.
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Pudwill said only five passed among the 60 in his group that took the written test.
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Students had to pass oral and written exams before moving up.
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The written test success rates are given in the table below.
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The results are from written tests unless otherwise stated.
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Thus, although these pupils generally have difficulty with reading, this does not mean that written tests should be ruled out.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A lot of listeners wrote in and complained about the programme.
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an opera written by Verdi
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Anna enjoys writing, and she's quite good at it.
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At the bottom he wrote: "with sincere love from your oldest friend".
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By third grade they can all read and write pretty well.
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Do you want me to write that down for you?
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Hang on, let me just get something to write on.
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He wrote several scholarly articles on ancient Chinese texts.
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He wrote to his father, asking for more money.
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Helga wrote her comments neatly in pencil.
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I wrote down all the things we have to do today.
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I wrote the next song for my wife.
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I can't come out tonight. I have an essay to write .
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I don't have any cash - could I write you a check?
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I just wrote him saying how much I missed him being around.
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I learned to write when I was in first grade.
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I sit at the piano when I write .
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I try to write a cheerful letter to her at least once a week.
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I wasn't happy, so I wrote a nasty letter asking for my money back.
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It's a fascinating article, and very well written.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Writing, now, in the university, writing to try out new ideas, writing to redefine himself.
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A: Well, in the early years I was writing advertising, medical advertising.
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For works written at a time when Beethoven was still in his middle period, the lyricism in the works is extraordinary.
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I've got to write a story on this.
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McNulty wrote a song for Tom and Darlow wrote one for Grace.
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Scene: On the airplane home, you wrote a short report discussing the conference you just attended.
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Sportswriters are not allowed to write about death.
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Today, everything is wonderful, Bjaaland wrote in his diary.