Example sentences of "was reading the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the very moment Lewis was finishing The Place of the Lion , Williams was reading The Allegory of Love with great admiration . |
| 2 | Perhaps I take a special pleasure in Cold Comfort Farm from the fact that I was myself brought up in a rural setting , surrounded by wild-eyed manic depressives of the Starkadder school , while I was reading the works of D.H.Lawrence and F.R.Leavis , whose loam-laden versions of country life did n't quite chime with mine . |
| 3 | An expensive handbag lay on the table , and she was reading the morning paper in a perfectly ordinary way . |
| 4 | As yet he had not succumbed completely to the seductive prose of Pater and was reading the ‘ artificial but interesting Marius ’ side by side with Scott , Meredith , Hardy 's Jude , and Flaubert 's letters . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's Jack 's dog , ’ said his Dad , who was reading the paper . |
| 6 | An American novelist was reading the prison letters of the West German terrorist , whose face , blown up , formed the backdrop to the stage . |
| 7 | A PARTICULAR pleasure over the weekend was reading the latest issue of New Statesman and Society , once the publication one turned to for eloquent exposition of left-wing politics . |
| 8 | Over the other end a man was reading the Völkischer Beobachter with the aid of a dictionary . |
| 9 | She was reading The Uses of Literacy . |
| 10 | Breeze , who was reading the letter aloud — it was addressed jointly to Gay and herself — broke off at this point and frowned . |
| 11 | Is it , Reg ? ’ she appealed to Paula 's father , who was reading the Daily Mirror and enjoying a Woodbine after his well-earned tea . |
| 12 | Suddenly he was reading the most terrible things about his own wife . |
| 13 | I was sitting in a friend 's garden where I had gone to seek the Lord , and as I was reading the words of Jesus I knew , with a peace and a joy which passed understanding , the call of God . |
| 14 | She was reading the Daily Telegraph . |
| 15 | Lamprey was reading the second , and so far no word had come downstairs that it had been rejected . |
| 16 | He was reading the daily newspaper and enjoying a cup of tea . |
| 17 | For the first time since I had come to the college I had access to student political material because my boyfriend was reading the posters , leaflets and student newspapers to me . |
| 18 | During those five minutes , while she was reading the history of the poppadom from the back of a packet , a female voice said to her , in a strangled way , ‘ Mrs Bouverie ? ’ |
| 19 | Hauser also was reading the reports but his newspaper was the Herald Tribune . |
| 20 | Two men , aged 26 and 27 , contested the case but were found guilty of rape and aiding and abetting each other on the sex attacks on a 21-year-old French woman , who told how the two burst into her room at a friend 's flat while she was reading the Bible . |
| 21 | ‘ He 'll be with fairground people , ’ said Mrs Flaherty , staring into her teacup as if she was reading the leaves . |
| 22 | In the news editor 's office , an assistant was reading the list of stories from her scratch pad , ‘ Report from Washington on the senator bribe story . |
| 23 | One woman was knitting , an old man was reading the Daily Minor . |
| 24 | One of the old men was reading the Daily Minor , the knitter was knitting , Helena Naulls was asleep , her mouth open and her dentures slipped out of alignment . |
| 25 | The skipper was up and was reading the state-of-the-art technology with which the Nicholson was refitted after every Boat Show . |
| 26 | And then when I was reading the text really carefully , I came to the conclusion that that 's not really what Jesus is saying . |
| 27 | Madeleine had on her spectacles and was reading the newspaper while Louis dozed on the sofa . |
| 28 | I looked as if I was reading the paper , but my mind was going over the events at Ingard House , and the curious discrepancy in the stories about Andrew Stavanger . |
| 29 | I was reading the other day th th you can check this out . |
| 30 | I had finished my breakfast and was reading the newspaper . |