1. There are plenty of exceptions, fine songwriters penning protest songs or brooding religious inquiries.

2. At his side a fussy grey-faced scribe was penning details about Zen Sharpik into a leatherbound ledger.

3. Though she was not really homesick, penning the letters somehow kept her close.

4. Lord penning said: The Attorney-General tells us that when he refuses his consent, his refusal is final.

5. But penning in this raucous melee are buildings that seem all shutters and grids.

6. Even now, someone somewhere penning The End of Capitalism.

7. Electromagnetic fields can store antimatter in so-called Penning traps by keeping the antimatter away from the container's walls.

8. Paterson began writing novels in her28th year, penning two westerns in short succession: The Magpie's Nest and TheShadow Riders, which contained a strong pro-free trade message.

9. John Keats famously spent his dying years penning sonnets to his beloved Fanny Brawne.

10. For example, a cylindrical Penning trap that holds positrons will not hold antiprotons.

11. "the drudgery of penning definitions and marking quotations for transcription" (Macaulay).

12. Penning notes of appreciation to gift-givers teaches gratitude and helps polish writing and spelling skills.

13. But in penning the letter NGOs are challenging these limits.

14. Ever since Ian Fleming began penning his James Bond series in 1953, spy adventures and espionage have been hot topics for cinema and television.

15. Roma coach Luciano Spalletti is close to penning a new deal through to 2011.

16. Far too often those in authority expect others to obey and so use formal and even terse language when penning memos.

17. The emission spectra of He plasma were measured by using three types of experiment devices: dielectric barrier discharge device, hollow-cathode discharge device and Penning discharge device.

17. try its best to collect and make good sentences.

18. The prolific thriller writer's latest deal, signed last fall, involves penning a carpal tunnel-risking 17 books by the end of 2012 for an estimated $100 million.

19. Rita heard about him from her mother that he had become a poet and writer and was penning a book.

20. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has taken time out of his busy schedule to indulge his imagination by penning a children's book featuring his family pets, a spokeswoman said Sunday.

21. George is credited with bringing F1 back to the US on a novel road course inside the fabled Indy 500 oval, and until recently was keen on penning a new race promotion deal with Bernie Ecclestone.

22. Writers always think they are doing actors a favor by penning phrases such as "Pardone ay mwah but verr iz zah railvay stahzion".

23. Positrons and antiprotons can individually be stored in a device called a Penning trap, which uses a combination of magnetic and electric fields to hold charged particles in a vacuum.

24. He earns twenty sous a day at an attorney's by penning quibbles.

25. The Brazilian's contract expires at the end of this season and his agent Gilmar Rinaldi confirmed that he would not be penning a new deal.

26. It's that last part Buckley is singing about, but he probably should have considered penning a few lines to himself regarding the "musician gone too soon" part.