Example sentences of "read the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wisharts read the remaining news in their papers and looked out of the window , the old lady was still silent and motionless . |
| 2 | She read the classic children 's novels wonderfully well , so well indeed that books like The Scarlet Pimpernel were often a disappointment when re-read by us in private afterwards . |
| 3 | LAST week the column was 400 miles away : no telephone , no forwarding address , and for The Northern Echo read the Western Mail . |
| 4 | In addition to planning and editing , he read the entire Dictionary in proof , a prodigious task for one man . |
| 5 | I mean at least you 've got a chance that they 're gon na stay with you and er a a a and read the odd paragraph . |
| 6 | The problem with writing large amounts of text is the time it takes to proof read the final document . |
| 7 | Just before midnight on 13 May , Massu read the following statement from the balcony of the government building : " We appeal to General de Gaulle , the only man who is capable of heading a Government of Public Safety , above all the parties , in order to ensure the perpetuation of French Algeria as an integral part of France . " |
| 8 | LORD LANE C.J. read the following opinion of the court . |
| 9 | From the graph read the following information : |
| 10 | 1–3–1859 The Convener read the following letter from Claud McFie Esquire with reference to a donation of £400 which he had given to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund and a like sum to the Supplementary Sustentation Fund and in reference to which he reserved power to demand the interest during his life ; that he was anxious to promote the prosperity of the new Church of Bowmore in Islay , and now desired to appropriate the interest of the latter sum for five years , for that charge , and on this being complied with he gave up for that period his claim for the interest of the former sum , viz £400 , to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund . |
| 11 | ROCH J. read the following judgment . |
| 12 | Morritt J. read the following judgment . |
| 13 | Lord Taylor of Gosforth C.J. read the following judgment of the court . |
| 14 | MUMMERY J. read the following judgment . |
| 15 | TUDOR EVANS J. read the following judgment . |
| 16 | WRIGHT J. read the following judgment of the court . |
| 17 | PHILLIPS J. read the following judgment . |
| 18 | Macpherson of Cluny J. read the following judgment of the court . |
| 19 | HIRST J. read the following judgment . |
| 20 | HIRST J. read the following judgment . |
| 21 | LORD TAYLOR OF GOSFORTH C.J. read the following judgment of the court . |
| 22 | Over the next six months , under Mrs Phelps 's watchful and compassionate eye , Matilda read the following books : |
| 23 | 3–11–1898 The Moderator read the following extract minute of Presbytery ; " The presbytery took up the report of the committee on union with the United Presbyterian Church as sent down by last General Assembly , and as Instructed by the Assembly , agreed to transmit the said report to the Kirk Session within their bounds for their information . " |
| 24 | They stopped outside one of them , among the fishing-nets , turning windmills , and buckets and spades , while Bella read the dirty seaside postcards . |
| 25 | On the sheet of paper inside she read the baldest message . |
| 26 | As Franco read the introductory Preamble , followed by the text of the Law itself , they listened intently , dutifully , interrupting only to applaud . |
| 27 | Chesterton , always a favourite author , was a Christian ; it was at this period that Lewis read The Everlasting Man , and it made a profound impression on him . |
| 28 | And then , for the first time in his place of birth , he read The Dry Salvages which opens with the Mississippi , the river which had so impressed his childish imagination . |
| 29 | Believe it or not many people , not many people do actually read them , but school teachers and engineers , the ana , the analytical minds , they read the damn things , and when they come back they ask you a question , and you say , I do n't know , I 've never read it . |
| 30 | Well I buy Writers Monthly , but I never read the damn thing , you know , so I |