Example sentences of "be reading the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Just remember when you 're reading the weather forecast and telling the viewers it 's going to rain , that you ca n't detach yourself . |
| 2 | Make sure you 're reading the right one all the time . |
| 3 | Reader manipulation is another recurring feature that in some ways is obvious looking at how the book is written but as you 're reading the book you 're practically living in it and when you finish it 's almost as if a piece of your daily routine is missing and because it is an integral part of your life it is hard to distance yourself from it and analyse it . |
| 4 | You can find out about world events if you read a good newspaper , somebody said to me yesterday in class well we do n't get the news about these places , you do , you just do n't get it on the T V , it 's there in the Guardian every day , it 's there in the Independent every day , quite a lot of it gets reported in the Telegraph , but it 's no good if you 're reading the Mirror , you wo n't get it in there , you wo n't get it in the Mail or any other of those newspapers , the tabloids , but these things are happening , why would we be interested ? |
| 5 | I 'm reading the very first dream : A ballroom , shimmering . |
| 6 | Sorry , I 'm reading the wrong dates here That 's right , it ca n't be the twelfth , I must have meant the fourteenth . |
| 7 | An immediate halt to the Government 's Hospital Trust , sorry I 'm reading the same thing again . |
| 8 | Do n't do that not when I 'm reading the paper right . |
| 9 | set me free , all right I 'm reading The Shining . |
| 10 | I 'm reading the paper ! |
| 11 | The result of all this politics — and Ramsey 's sense that he might be reading the wrong subject , because his interests were now more modern than ancient — meant that his classics did not go as might be expected of someone who won a scholarship . |
| 12 | She appeared to be reading the sowing instructions . |
| 13 | Other people in the public eye would be reading the first seven , and his grandfather the ninth . |
| 14 | The Carriage is set as for stocking stitch , except that the carriage must be reading the card and selecting the needles . |
| 15 | I just feel that even if you have read the book I mean my point would be , I would maybe be reading the book and have a look and say oh god |
| 16 | Now usually someone will be reading the Sunday papers , another will be bowling at his five-year-old son . |
| 17 | He reached for the bottle but Oliver got there first and pretended to be reading the label . |
| 18 | When he came home from college she 'd be reading The Catholic Mind . |
| 19 | Everyone , moreover , seemed to be reading The Bell . |
| 20 | You 're not supposed to be reading the news . |
| 21 | Rain pours down the window panes of my London flat and I am reading the letters of black political prisoners in the country I was born in . |
| 22 | And because we are reading the story , we are at an imaginative level participating in the events , recognising aspects of ourselves in the main character . |
| 23 | The program decides by ‘ reading ’ the horizontal lines of squares , in much the same way as you are reading the words on this page , from left to right . |
| 24 | So if , for instance , you are reading the earliest Gideon books of John Creasey , stop at each fact that you feel inclined to take unto yourself and ask whether it is a reasonably timeless fact , or only a temporary one . |
| 25 | Are reading the Alchemist ? |
| 26 | Recently I have been reading the writings of Matthew Fox , a Dominican who is very popular for his creation spirituality and love of the environment . |
| 27 | Peregrine switched the wireless off , imitating the stilted tones of whoever had been reading the news . |
| 28 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |
| 29 | IF ONE had not been reading the newspapers , listening to the radio , watching television and , above all , paying attention to the opinion polls , the election results would have come as no surprise . |
| 30 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |