Example sentences of "read to i from " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time Mr Salmon used to read to me from his morning paper , but as he could never find a mention of the Royal Fusiliers I did n't discover what the old man was up to . |
| 2 | After we had talked , Philip read to me from an unpublished memoir which he had entitled ‘ The Two Burtons ’ . |
| 3 | He read to me from Brendan Behan 's The Borstal Boy . |
| 4 | I want to hear the country rain on the roof of our house , where Daddy read to me from Where the Wild Things Are . |
| 5 | My mother was reading to me from A Sporting Trip Through Abyssinia , and I can remember exactly where she had got to in the book when , thinking I looked feverish , she took my temperature and put me to bed . |
| 6 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 7 | She sat down , and read to me from some of the most famous magazines in England . |