Example sentences of "[pers pn] was read the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 2 | I was sitting in a friend 's garden where I had gone to seek the Lord , and as I was reading the words of Jesus I knew , with a peace and a joy which passed understanding , the call of God . |
| 3 | And then when I was reading the text really carefully , I came to the conclusion that that 's not really what Jesus is saying . |
| 4 | I looked as if I was reading the paper , but my mind was going over the events at Ingard House , and the curious discrepancy in the stories about Andrew Stavanger . |
| 5 | I was reading the other day th th you can check this out . |
| 6 | I was reading the things and I said it was a bigger upstairs is , are bigger than the downstairs . |
| 7 | Yeah that 's , when I was reading the thing I said to you somehow the upstairs seemed much better . |
| 8 | thought about it when I was reading the property thing it might be er while I 'm in Leo 's |
| 9 | Campaign on a what do you call it and erm and funny enough I was reading the Campaign yesterday and I was looking at the er thing and they 've got a sale on have n't they ? |
| 10 | I was reading the |
| 11 | An expensive handbag lay on the table , and she was reading the morning paper in a perfectly ordinary way . |
| 12 | She was reading The Uses of Literacy . |
| 13 | She was reading the Daily Telegraph . |
| 14 | During those five minutes , while she was reading the history of the poppadom from the back of a packet , a female voice said to her , in a strangled way , ‘ Mrs Bouverie ? ’ |
| 15 | Two men , aged 26 and 27 , contested the case but were found guilty of rape and aiding and abetting each other on the sex attacks on a 21-year-old French woman , who told how the two burst into her room at a friend 's flat while she was reading the Bible . |
| 16 | ‘ He 'll be with fairground people , ’ said Mrs Flaherty , staring into her teacup as if she was reading the leaves . |
| 17 | She was reading The Times with the aid of a magnifying glass . |
| 18 | That set me wondering , but it was reading the diary that made me know . ’ |
| 19 | Suddenly he was reading the most terrible things about his own wife . |
| 20 | He was reading the daily newspaper and enjoying a cup of tea . |
| 21 | So she signed ‘ Charlotte Rossignol ’ , well aware that he was reading the letters as fast as she formed them . |
| 22 | He swirled the beer in his glass , staring at it as if it was tea and he was reading the leaves . |