Example sentences of "she could read " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot found she could read the letters and was surprised . |
| 2 | But then she found that she must have been without noticing , for she discovered that there was writing everywhere which she could read without even trying . |
| 3 | She could read them all , Oxo , Rinso , O-Cedar , and Aero , even if she did n't always understand what they meant . |
| 4 | So she could read him too . |
| 5 | The queer thought : Doctor , she could read him like a book . |
| 6 | If only she could read they might open up the world . |
| 7 | At the age of four , she could read fast and well and she naturally began hankering after books . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course I knew she could read , ’ the mother said . |
| 9 | She could read this , from Pat 's face . |
| 10 | The girl had a way of looking at her as if she could read her mind and Ida did n't like it . |
| 11 | She could read the gossip in their eyes , see the speculations about her absence in Switzerland , her mother 's suicide . |
| 12 | She could read very well herself . |
| 13 | She spoke almost as if she could read his mind . |
| 14 | But her gaze was beyond words ; even if he said nothing at all , she could read him with ease . |
| 15 | She could read nothing from the parchment of his face . |
| 16 | Even from her place at the desk she could read the gold lettering on the frame . |
| 17 | Rachaela knew she could read well but was virtually innumerate . |
| 18 | She could read the signs . |
| 19 | She held the faded spine of one of them to the light so that she could read the lettering : ‘ Journal of Martin J. Beale 1852–67 . ’ |
| 20 | Instead she took refuge in the library where she could read and research to her heart 's content . |
| 21 | She was going on the overnight train so that she could read the Children 's Act of Scotland en route . |
| 22 | It would certainly be needed , and very soon , if she could read the signs . |
| 23 | A large colourful greetings card , propped in one corner , skewed slightly , so that , if she craned her neck slightly , she could read the message written inside . |
| 24 | A book perhaps ; that might do the trick — she could read a while . |
| 25 | She did n't need to listen to the words when she could read her future in their eyes . |
| 26 | Lou 's heightened colour betrayed her embarrassment , as if she could read Melissa 's unspoken disapproval at this example of male chauvinism . |
| 27 | She knew it sounded unconvincing and she could read the continued disbelief in his eyes even as she spoke , but it was n't right , the way he was managing to give a nasty twist to everything she said . |
| 28 | She could read the expression in his eyes . |
| 29 | She could read up Guillain-Barré Syndrome . |
| 30 | She could read his mind . |