Example sentences of "read [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a very small child , I 'd sit and listen while he read me the comic . |
| 2 | ‘ The first time Jimmy Patino , who represented family interests on the board , came to a meeting , he read me the riot act about how of every £1 I was talking about , 51p was owned by the family , and of that 51p , 25p of it was his . |
| 3 | And then , in Camus , who made the most immense journey from his origins ( his mother was illiterate ; a neighbour read her the telex saying he 'd won the Nobel Prize ) , I found someone who stated , in the most affirmative and human terms , the ways in which he remained dependent on them . |
| 4 | I felt very proud of her and read her the letter . |
| 5 | He 'd allowed her closer than anyone else , and when his clothes were off and he was tired she read him the way she read the weather or the mountains or the dust , she ran her fingers over his pale , scarred body and she guessed close to the truth . |
| 6 | In that last summer before he died I read him the whole of Proust … |
| 7 | I have a hunch that Hilary read him the riot act . ’ |