Example sentences of "read [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's how I got interested in the sport : I read about the first black champion , Jack Johnson and it created my interest for the first time . |
| 2 | She was not at all the uppity , self-important celebrity I read about the next day . |
| 3 | One afternoon the following week , Mary was coming into the yard having been to hear the banns read for the last time , when she came upon a group of local women standing around gossiping about the wedding . |
| 4 | It can be useful practice to read through the first sentences of paragraphs which make up a published essay , to see how much work — of summary and of signposting — is being done by these " topic sentences " . |
| 5 | The ‘ rule-based ’ spelling currently being tested is about 20 per cent slower to read for the first 1200 words , although some backward readers and beginners immediately improve speed or accuracy . |
| 6 | EVERY YEAR the British Film Institute issues a package of British short films by up-and-coming movie-makers , giving you a chance to read for the first time the credits you 'll be seeing on Channel 4 in the next couple of years . |
| 7 | If individual sessions are the chosen option , the therapist may give the client a number of handouts to read before the next session and a self-monitoring sheet to record incidents of anxiety . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've a stack papers to read before the next sitting . |
| 9 | This contrasts with developmental dyslexia which is an impairment , possibly congenital , in learning to read in the first place . |
| 10 | After the charter was read for the last time , the children , who had been joining the procession as it moved through the village , scrambled for new pennies thrown by the lord and lady of the manor . |
| 11 | This means that you do n't have to wait for WSP to read all the text on any page and then edit out the unwanted bits , but can tell it exactly what you want read in the first place . |
| 12 | Bishop Burnet , whose church-manship and politics were very different , and whose memoirs were widely read in the eighteenth century , described him as |
| 13 | Before you continue to discard ‘ the packaging ’ with Christmas morning abandon , eating those refined carbohydrate foods , read in the next chapter about the links that are emerging between dietary fibre — or the lack of it — and so many of our Western degenerative diseases and complaints . |
| 14 | Consider , for example , the question ‘ Which textbooks have you read in the last six months ? ’ . |
| 15 | My earlier assertion that Hunslet would be leaving at the end of the season , now appears to have been a figment of my imagination , and from what i 've read over the last couple of days Leeds appear to be up ‘ shit creek ’ . |
| 16 | Your notes taken during the meeting form the basis for your formal minutes to be read at the next meeting . |