Example sentences of "[be] read 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 | What a pleasure it has been to read the posh English papers in the past fortnight . |
| 6 | The simplest form of reading is often thought to be children ‘ looking at pictures ’ , but children need to bring a number of skills to the task of reading picture-books if they are to read the pictures with understanding . |
| 7 | We are to read the stories of women as though they were our stories , empathizing with them in their suffering and standing with them in their courage in the face of patriarchy . |
| 8 | My own choice , with the same reservation , would be to read the Italian epic — to be always convalescent from some small illness and always seated in a window that overlooked the sea , there to read these poems eight hours of each happy day . |
| 9 | The sensible interpretation would be to read the phrase ‘ not within the powers of this Act ’ so as to include any of the traditional heads of ultra vires and there is authority for this position . |
| 10 | I 'm reading the very first dream : A ballroom , shimmering . |
| 11 | Sorry , I 'm reading the wrong dates here That 's right , it ca n't be the twelfth , I must have meant the fourteenth . |
| 12 | An immediate halt to the Government 's Hospital Trust , sorry I 'm reading the same thing again . |
| 13 | Do n't do that not when I 'm reading the paper right . |
| 14 | set me free , all right I 'm reading The Shining . |
| 15 | I 'm reading the paper ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She appeared to be reading the sowing instructions . |
| 18 | Other people in the public eye would be reading the first seven , and his grandfather the ninth . |
| 19 | The Carriage is set as for stocking stitch , except that the carriage must be reading the card and selecting the needles . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Now usually someone will be reading the Sunday papers , another will be bowling at his five-year-old son . |
| 22 | He reached for the bottle but Oliver got there first and pretended to be reading the label . |
| 23 | When he came home from college she 'd be reading The Catholic Mind . |
| 24 | Everyone , moreover , seemed to be reading The Bell . |
| 25 | You 're not supposed to be reading the news . |
| 26 | The biographer of T. S. Eliot , who was himself to speak of the ‘ dark ’ experience , of the ‘ rude unknown psychic material ’ , incorporated in his poem The Waste Land , can be seen in Hawksmoor to contribute to the tradition of romantic fabulation which began with the Gothic novel — a tradition in which darkness is privileged , in which a paranoid distrust is evident , in which can be read the evergreen message that the deprived may turn out to be depraved , and in which there can be two of someone . |
| 27 | However , this pastoral mission is not only up against hardened heathens , but it also considers that some ought not even to be read the lesson . |
| 28 | The figure is seated on a throne on which can be read the text : ‘ Friend of kings , Per-Neb the chamberlain and courtier ’ ( est. £600,000–800,000 ; $918,000–1,224,000 ) . |
| 29 | The coin looked as if the minter struck it on a single die , punching the image in the metal in repoussé , so hard that the inverted ear on the reverse would appear on the other side , and could be read the right way round in shallow relief when the coin was turned over . |
| 30 | That the Bill shall be laid upon the Table of the House by one of the Clerks in the Private Bill Office on the next meeting of the House after the day on which the Bill has been presented and , when so laid , shall be read the first and second time ( and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read ) and , having been amended by the Committee in the last Session , shall be ordered to lie upon the Table . |