Example sentences of "[pers pn] read [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pass on an interesting snippet that I read on a computer news net . |
| 2 | The first time I read about a sex change something happened deep inside me : all my vague feelings about being a girl found a focus even though all the stories were about men who became ’ . |
| 3 | I read about a kind of pneumonia owls can sometimes get , which humans , too , can catch . |
| 4 | ‘ Given these cold facts I did not feel comfortable with any of the ideas we had until I read about a satellite mushroom farming venture being launched by Wilgro last spring , ’ said Mr Singleton . |
| 5 | It was therefore with a quickening of the blood that I read of a builder in Birmingham who has torn down his house in order to erect something bigger , and inadvertently left his neighbour 's previously attached semi teetering sideways . |
| 6 | From an old book of local walks I read of a route up the Remarkables , the jagged range of peaks which overshadow Queenstown across the lake , and which rise to nearly 8,000 feet . |
| 7 | I read in a paper that in some states more than 50 per cent of subscribers are now ex-directory . |
| 8 | If , however , I read in a review , ‘ These frets are slightly higher than Gibson 's wide ovals , ’ I 'd know precisely what you were talking about . |
| 9 | I read in a newspaper recently that he 'd said , ‘ I 've only ever done one chat show and I 'll never do another one . ’ |
| 10 | I really enjoyed the day , and I was a little put out by the articles I read in a couple of daily newspapers throughout the week , which criticised the tournament for staging what they called ‘ just a one-woman show ’ . |
| 11 | I read in a magazine that he was from Scotland . ’ |
| 12 | Then I read in a magazine about floristry courses at Chipchester College and decided that sounded like me . ’ |
| 13 | I read in a Sunday tabloid , that Fat Mel has been told to take a complete rest from football in the hope that his ankle will heal . |
| 14 | As you read through a book or long article , pause after each chapter or section and look back at any notes you have taken . |
| 15 | Where the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries gave way to the nineteenth , things became crisper : you read of a profusion of Elizas and Thomases , of beloved wives and lamented parents : white marble crept in with the grey limestone . |
| 16 | ‘ It was like something you read in a horror story — only worse , ’ said delivery man Ron yesterday . |
| 17 | It was all like something you read in a book . |
| 18 | No I do n't think they will but you ca n't really believe all that you read in a newspaper can you ? |
| 19 | In Ackroyd 's life of Eliot we read about a major poet who was a good ventriloquist ; a man of multiple personality who swore by a principle of impersonality in art which he was later to unswear by locating The Waste Land in the stresses of a domestic life , and whose art bears the indelible signature of that distinctive protean character of his ; a man who was often miserable and tormented . |
| 20 | On the same page we read about a vision of Christ and a seeking forgiveness of the common people — two ideas which were abandoned . |
| 21 | One feature of English verse that is scanted by this method , or can be acknowledged only incidentally , is one that every careful reader knows from his or her experience : tempo , the speeding up or slowing down of enunciation , and therefore of apprehension , as we read through a line or through several lines in sequence . |
| 22 | The other instance : we are told on unimpeachable authority that a woman is looking forward to the birth of her daughter ; years later we read of a young man arriving on the scene . |
| 23 | On another page we read of a homeless man being allowed to freeze nearly to death in the centre of our capital city , and having both legs amputated from frostbite . |
| 24 | When we read in a newspaper about an amazing coincidence happening to somebody in Valparaiso or Virginia , we are more impressed by it than we should be . |
| 25 | Readers do not just read , they read for a purpose . |