Example sentences of "was [adj] read the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Stephens was careful to read the short poems and finished up with one set not far from the place at which John was hired . |
| 2 | I was interested to read the prize winning letter from Catherine Haslam in your last edition . |
| 3 | I was interested to read the letter from Dr R. C. Price in the August issue ( Chem . |
| 4 | I was interested to read the suggestion by John H. Parkinson ( Forum , 14 April , p 95 ) that St George 's dragon was a manifestation of the Aurora Borealis . |
| 5 | Sir , — As the last senior partner of Dearden Farrow , I was interested to read the news item ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 20 and this issue , p 111 ) relating our success in the action brought by Berg Sons & Co Ltd and Union Discount Ltd . |
| 6 | Sir , — I was sad to read the letter from your correspondent complaining about the hard-hitting anti-fox hunting poster . |
| 7 | I WAS sad to read the scathing comments of Bristol cinemagoers about the movie 1492 : Conquest Of Paradise , starring Gerard Depardieu ( right ) . |
| 8 | It was easy to read the resentment on the offworlder 's face . |
| 9 | Very , he was supposed to read the whole of it . |
| 10 | Progress against German cipher traffic was less successful because Britain ignored developments in machine cryptography so that by 1939 GCCS was unable to read the German Enigma cryptograph . |
| 11 | He looked up , but Alexei was unable to read the expression in his eyes . |
| 12 | However , I was concerned to read the remarks attributed to sole practitioner Geoffrey Day in which he observes that firms which ‘ train certifieds ' do not have to be formal training offices . |
| 13 | Not one of them , he said , was able to read the Bible correctly , but all could dance a quadrille , sing , and half of them could waltz . |
| 14 | Lord Alverstone recorded that when at the Bar he was able to read the sheets of correspondence almost as fast as he could turn them over , and he never required to read them twice . |
| 15 | I WAS pleased to read the Image Makers column ( Weekend Guardian , November 4 ) . |
| 16 | I read the letters last ish and was shocked to read the criticisms made about ZZAP ! 64 . |
| 17 | I was astonished to read the article entitled ‘ Soviet military research powers ’ ( This Week , 17 March , p 708 ) which appears to be a tame reproduction of figures given by the Pentagon as to their calculation of the Soviet defence effort . |