Example sentences of "i [modal v] read [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I must not only sit here and endure all this I must read her account of it at the end of the day , and think of something polite to say about it before I find ways of rewriting and neutralizing it . |
| 2 | The importance of such figures in terms of their ability to carry the message of Marxism to working people is suggested by Neruda 's account of how , travelling the nitrate region of Chile as a senator in 1945 , ‘ at hundreds of meetings , all very far away from each other , I heard a constant plea : that I should read my poems . |
| 3 | ‘ I might read my horoscope in the daily paper , but I 've no intention of letting astrology rule my life . ’ |
| 4 | The story was current when I was there that this distinguished classical scholar , so accustomed to dealing with the textual problems of Thucydides and Greek epigraphy , was somewhat disconcerted on arriving at Bletchley station to be greeted by an evacuee urchin , jeering : ‘ I 'll read yer secret writing , guv'nor ! ’ |
| 5 | I 'll read your pamphlet , ’ she added in a spirit of Christmas goodwill . |
| 6 | I 'll go to church more often , or I 'll read my bible more regularly , or I 'll really make an issue about praying , it 's not , it 's not that at all . |
| 7 | I could read his thoughts . |
| 8 | ‘ Mummy , ’ Matilda said , ‘ would you mind if I ate my supper in the dining-room so I could read my book ? ’ |
| 9 | I 'd read my Gervasutti on the Olan adventure of course , in Gervasutti 's Climbs ( Diadem , 1978 ) , but that was strictly dreamer 's stuff . |
| 10 | I suspect that it started when I would read my grandmother 's Sunday School prizes and my father 's Sunday School prizes as a small boy . |
| 11 | I shall read his speech and where I am unable to reply as fully as I might , I shall write to him . |
| 12 | She does n't even know I can read her sub-text ! ) |
| 13 | As far as I can read her argument , it is precisely this which allows recognition of it to model our human position as suspended between , as she says at another point , unconditioned actor … and conditioned agent . " |
| 14 | ‘ Now , ’ said Zach , jumping onto the bed , ‘ I can read my letter , ’ and he pulled out the crumpled envelope from his shorts . |
| 15 | I can read my own |
| 16 | I love you like — ’ he was going to say ‘ like a sister ’ , but he suddenly changed his mind-'I love you to distraction , Rosie , but I can read your mind like a book , and I expect your mum can too . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm flattered that you think I can read your mind , ’ she told him sarcastically , ‘ but I can promise you I was n't sufficiently interested in the outcome to try . |
| 18 | ‘ Harry you are not to go near that cottage not even of going near it — and I can read your thoughts by now . |
| 19 | He murmured , ‘ I think I can read your mind . |
| 20 | I can read his silence . |