Example sentences of "he could read " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He could read and write before he went to school . |
| 2 | There was a boy at school who was deaf , but he could read lips so we did n't have to shout . |
| 3 | Carol had written it specially for Nicholson ; he could read some of the special nuances that would mean something to him and no one else , nuances that could only come from a friendship and working relationship spanning fifteen years . |
| 4 | In his leisure hours , Lowe was a linguist and by the time he was 34 years old , he could read and write in French ( modern and Old Norman ) , Latin , Greek ( ancient and modern ) , German , Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Dutch and Danish . |
| 5 | ( The present writer 's introduction to Wallis Budge 's books on ancient Egypt , long before he could read them with understanding , led him — forty years later — to the temples of Karnak and Luxor and to the Valley of the Kings . ) |
| 6 | The strange boy 's eyes seemed to penetrate so deeply into Willie 's that he felt sure he could read his thoughts . |
| 7 | I wish he could read that . |
| 8 | He was very fond of poetry — he could read it as good as Rich and maybe better . |
| 9 | He never listened to radio news in the mornings , and in the evenings he usually turned his chair away from the television set , so that he could read . |
| 10 | He could read the words — canal , lock , barge — but the illustrations of an urban canal with tall , industrial buildings and long painted boats portrayed an unknown landscape . |
| 11 | His teacher explained that homework for 8 year olds was not school policy and Jeetinder was called in to show his mother that he could read . |
| 12 | He could read French easily , and could manage some German . |
| 13 | Although it was recorded that ‘ he could read a balance sheet ’ ( not in fact a particularly useful attribute for the Treasury ) , there is no evidence that he left any imprint upon Exchequer policy . |
| 14 | Harry broke the seal and unfolded it , taking his time over the reading of it , for although he could read adequately well , Sir Gregory 's handwriting was not easy to decipher and there were a number of peculiarly spelt words . |
| 15 | Nature to him was an open book whose letters he could read without effort ’ , wrote Einstein in the foreword to a 1931 edition of the Opticks ( 1704 ) . |
| 16 | A really educated man , if you if anyone had any forms to fill in er it was the postman you invariably went to , because he was considered to be , he could read and write you see . |
| 17 | But he could read her too well , and he could see that she was hoping for something more . |
| 18 | He nodded , as if he could read her thoughts , and moved to leave . |
| 19 | The desk was a chaos of open books — she never understood how he could read so many at once . |
| 20 | But then she realised that the customer in question was looking at her as if he could read her thoughts — and found them highly amusing . |
| 21 | And in daylight too , ’ he teased as though he could read her mind and know that never before had she been so uninhibited . |
| 22 | Now this was strange , Twoflower realised , because although he could read the message the actual letters were completely unknown to him . |
| 23 | His hands left her shoulders as he breathed a sigh of relief , and his gaze locked with hers as if he could read her soul in its depth . |
| 24 | Fiona ; OOOh he could read my stars any day . |
| 25 | Andreas was always trying to steal the key so that he could read it . |
| 26 | Once again he was ignoring Mitch and she felt he could read her mind . |
| 27 | Again she wondered if he could read her mind . |
| 28 | He could read the air and the stars . |
| 29 | He could read the threat in the Mason 's words , the blackmail ; he wore a wry sort of a smile , and clapped the bully on the back . |
| 30 | ‘ I think , ’ he continued as if he could read my thoughts , ‘ logic has shown me a way to solve the murders of Selkirk and Ruthven . ’ |