Example sentences of "she read the " in BNC.

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1 She read the description .
2 Then she read the caption .
3 She read the newspaper report of the discovery of the body .
4 Perhaps she read the wrong books .
5 When she read the first word , J O E , her heart gave a great leap .
6 Nicknamed Janet Gaynor by the make-up artists because of her resemblance to the star , she was generally liked not simply because of her sunny nature , but because she had a special hobby ; she read the teacups .
7 With a sense of foreboding , she read the note attached to one of the stems .
8 She read the advertisement carefully : they helped you if you were pregnant !
9 She read the words , then looked at him .
10 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 .
11 She read the star 's altitude off the sextant 's micrometer , and I dutifully jotted down the numbers and the time of day for her .
12 She read the summary of the story and the gushing praise of the New York critics , quoted on the jacket .
13 She read the first two pages and felt a blush rise from her palpitating bosom up her neck to suffuse her face .
14 She read the title and inscription .
15 She read the advertisement aloud , then looked up , bright-eyed .
16 Each time she read the story , she experienced a new shock ; it was the shock of finding the new contained and expressed in the framework and the terms of the old .
17 She felt a small shock as she read the truth , but her expression did n't change .
18 She read the piece of paper again and again .
19 She read the paper .
20 Molly Pargeter 's drive down the long , rutted track across the hills to Mondano was part of a journey that had started in her childhood and only reached its present stage when , in the middle of a freezing London January , she read the advertisement in the Daily Telegraph : Villa to let near small Tuscan town .
21 And then she read The villa will appeal in particular to devotees of Italian painting .
22 But the clerk did not do anything to see that she read the letter and she did not read it .
23 ( 3 ) As I have indicated , I reject the evidence of the midwife that she read the form to Miss T. The midwife gave Miss T. no explanation at all and I find , like Bristow J. in Chatterton v. Gerson [ 1981 ] Q.B .
24 She read the headline , ‘ ALL CHANGE AT SLEET PARK ’ , and in smaller letters , ‘ Sutherland Son to Inherit ’ .
25 She read the words aloud .
26 ‘ We have n't got much , ’ my mother said when she read the letter , ‘ but we 've certainly got more than she or the other people in Mavhinje have .
27 On the sheet of paper inside she read the baldest message .
28 She read the first page of a review copy of the new novel by a Royal Shakespeare Company actor and put it down again when she realized she had n't taken in a single word .
29 She read the Donaldson story .
30 And , as she read the words , written in a flowing feminine hand , the oddest sensation went lurching through her .
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