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But they do not know how to put pen to paper!

For my own part, I have not put pen to paper these several months.

I could not seem to put pen to paper about him for very long.

Does it start from the moment you put pen to paper?

The 19-year-old has put pen to paper on a deal that will run until 30 June 2015.

For him, the only way he could write was to put pen to paper and create the words with his own hands.

I know he put pen to paper with ideas that last.

At the end of the season he put pen to paper on a three year contract.

He pointed at the last line for me to sign, and I put pen to paper.

Until today I have felt too shaken to put pen to paper.

In June 2005, he put pen to paper on a new contract.

And of the 15,000 sought, he said, 12,800 have put pen to paper.

Of course, I haven't put pen to paper yet on the play.

Just by putting pen to paper you can do that."

He seemed without much language until he put pen to paper.

However, a month later as I put pen to paper to record the events it all seems very clear (but no less stupid!).

But two party leaders from the coalition were refusing to put pen to paper last week.

Jones has now put pen to paper with Celtic for the 2012 season.

Today's final exam is no academic matter of putting pen to paper.

Maybe if we could we'd never go out at all, put pen to paper, never even get up in the morning.

The trip hadn't inspired him to put pen to paper.

But as we mentioned at 15.54, his new coalition government are reluctant to put pen to paper.

It seems the author just needs to put pen to paper and people are hounding her.

So why not put pen to paper and win a wardrobe of fashions.

She put pen to paper, and signed another order.

If experience is a guide, one or two are already setting pen to paper in protest.

The thought of again setting pen to paper maddened him.

Usually, the familiar act of setting pen to paper caused him to think precisely.

That man hasn't set pen to paper since high school."

Except for the occasional thank-you note, he never set pen to paper.

Perhaps the first thing she would find, setting pen to paper, was that there was no common sentence ready for her use.

Eventually they realised he wasn't kidding, and set pen to paper.

He opens with "Absence," which used to be as good a reason as any to set pen to paper.

She had just set pen to paper when she heard a thud below stairs.

To him, I wrote only this, my hand shaking somewhat as I set pen to paper.

Broadway Joe paled and set pen to paper.

Malcolm found himself shaking the hand of one of the greatest poets ever to set pen to paper in the English language.

Before she sets pen to paper, she could be facing an 848-point SAT deficit.

He has not set pen to paper yet, Ms. Lentine said, but they talk about the poem all the time.

As with the ideas of geology, the essential ideas of evolution were known before Darwin had set pen to paper.

Even as I set pen to paper, I knew I might be perpetuating another man's error.

In the early 1930s, the village schoolteacher at the time, named Siebenborn, was inspired to set pen to paper with these words:

Mr. Shookhoff hardly pretends that setting pen to paper miraculously transforms every troubled youngster.

He had committed - would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper - the essential crime that contained all others in itself.

My Jane, I insist, the Editor of Editors, who is never far from my mind when I set pen to paper.

On 7 July 1916, Arthur Hubbard painfully set pen to paper in an attempt to explain to his mother why he was no longer in France.

Since the day he first set pen to paper, Mailer has viewed his contemporaries "the way an athlete looks at rival athletes," but the competition is just as often with himself.

Had the fact of Wells' invention caused this place to come into being, a branching of reality that did not exist until the man from Bromley first set pen to paper?

THERE seems to be a steadily growing faction of distressed parents across the country who are setting pen to paper to complain about the unusual behavior of their college-age children.

Mr. Lipsky (a courtly gent, who believes that the use of courtesy titles is a matter of elementary courtesy) telephoned me for a chat before setting pen to paper.