Example sentences of "i [verb] read [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but I , I think that 's the importance basically I mean reading through this it 's very easy to sort of in , in a way you know go , go to this point of view because it was written at the time , but I mean we , we still now that it was a very sort of say left wing point of view |
| 2 | I want to read to daddy . |
| 3 | But then I stopped reading as a reader and began to read as a writer . |
| 4 | I organized that at Conway Hall now , in most reference books my agent 's name is listed , and my agent got a call saying the minute I began to read from that book I would die . |
| 5 | It was only weeks after the speech that I began to read in the press that actually her theme had been positive and she had presented a positive forward view . |
| 6 | Answering the question ‘ why read romances ? ’ by picking the statement , ‘ Because I like to read about the strong , virile heroes ’ , is likely to be interpreted as the reader 's view of masculinity , rather than a comment on the textual function of the male hero in the romance . |
| 7 | I like to read about my time and it was only really in the style magazines that I could get in touch with people of my generation — black or white . |
| 8 | I adored getting drunk and I adored reading in the papers what I had done the night before . |
| 9 | ‘ I remember reading about it in a book . |
| 10 | I remember reading about him in the Standard . ’ |
| 11 | Now er w w with every respect , to say that he survived it is something of a crass statement , because I remember reading about him thinking is n't this country getting good that we can have a black guardsman , and I remember my own disappointment when I read that he had to leave the regiment . |
| 12 | I remember reading about the haunting of old Edge Lane Hall and years later of that dreadful disaster the Titanic sinking . |
| 13 | George was taken prisoner , too , when he was fighting in France , and I remember reading in a newspaper how he had escaped as well . |
| 14 | It was I remember reading in the paper that it 's been it 's been filmed at a house which no one 's ever been allowed to go in even the great sort of one of these country mansions , it was not Bradley Hall |
| 15 | I keep reading about South Africa 's problems and it 's getting daft ; here we face an international squad who have already played four Tests since returning to the world game and who have played 12 games together on tour . |
| 16 | Well this is the what I keep reading about the right left divide . |
| 17 | I remembered reading about the protests over Club Row just north of Spitalfields ' market , where a street market in animals had been held since Victorian times . |
| 18 | I learned to read for drums first and then to sight sing choral music and then I learned to read music in general . |
| 19 | Though they did n't read much they had a huge library and they just left me to it so I did read without direction . |
| 20 | I told her all that I had read of him . |
| 21 | An essay of his I had read at school entitled ‘ Religion without Humanism ’ , from a symposium published under the title of Humanism and America ( 1930 ) , edited by Norman Foerster , had excited scant interest on this side of the Atlantic . |
| 22 | I had read about the proposed rock 'n' roll evening in the newsletter and thought ‘ that would be a laugh , wonder if I could persuade to go ? ’ |
| 23 | I had read about the place in Scum magazine I felt all right in here : a circular , windowless room , tricked out in some lost pimp 's image of a paradisal arbour — tendoned vines , plastic grape-clutches , bamboo ceiling , lagoon lights and canned birdsong . |
| 24 | All I knew then of the Luton case was what I had read in the papers and seen on television . |
| 25 | Twin terrors combine in the instant with nightmare logic : feathers and cobwebs , cobwebs and feathers … and now … words … words burned into the blackness … white words , black words … seen , yet not seen … silent , yet heard … words I had read in the Book and forgotten but now knew again … word for word : |
| 26 | I thought about all the books I had read in the past and remembered one in particular which I had enjoyed immensely . |
| 27 | Over the last few months I 've read with some considerable interest and humour all the back-biting and jibing from the Pittman and Peavey camps . |
| 28 | Was it so much better than anything else I 've read on Hawking because it was written with the sensitivity and understanding of someone suffering from a disability in some ways similar to his ? |
| 29 | The new book , Kolymsky Heights , is says Sinclair-Stevenson , ‘ a wonderful , classy novel set mainly in Russia post-Gorbachev — the best thing in this genre I 've read for ages ’ . |
| 30 | I 've read through them all , but unfortunately ca n't answer 'em individually . |