Example sentences of "[noun] was read the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the Mamur Zapt 's duties was to read the press before publication and excise any passage he considered inflammatory . |
| 2 | Lamprey was reading the second , and so far no word had come downstairs that it had been rejected . |
| 3 | At the very moment Lewis was finishing The Place of the Lion , Williams was reading The Allegory of Love with great admiration . |
| 4 | An American novelist was reading the prison letters of the West German terrorist , whose face , blown up , formed the backdrop to the stage . |
| 5 | In the news editor 's office , an assistant was reading the list of stories from her scratch pad , ‘ Report from Washington on the senator bribe story . |
| 6 | Nowhere to be seen and one of the reasons I bought the magazine was to read the article as I have a Ti'ko machine ( and incidentally have been very pleased with it ) . |
| 7 | Over the other end a man was reading the Völkischer Beobachter with the aid of a dictionary . |
| 8 | One woman was knitting , an old man was reading the Daily Minor . |
| 9 | One of the old men was reading the Daily Minor , the knitter was knitting , Helena Naulls was asleep , her mouth open and her dentures slipped out of alignment . |
| 10 | The only fair way was to read the transcripts of those who had been there and try to piece together a sequence of events . |
| 11 | A PARTICULAR pleasure over the weekend was reading the latest issue of New Statesman and Society , once the publication one turned to for eloquent exposition of left-wing politics . |
| 12 | Douglas was reading the Telegraph . |
| 13 | The following morning , Mr Trotter was reading the morning newspapers , nearly ready to go to work . |
| 14 | For the first time since I had come to the college I had access to student political material because my boyfriend was reading the posters , leaflets and student newspapers to me . |