Example sentences of "that i read " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I inform him that I read recently how the estimable gentleman had found the Lord and was living in a Salvation Army hostel in Grimsby , he wonders aloud whether the vodka and orange was not partly to blame . |
| 2 | It was , therefore , with sadness that I read of the British Olympic Association 's petty , bigoted decision to withhold recognition of the Paralympics team . |
| 3 | It was therefore with a quickening of the blood that I read of a builder in Birmingham who has torn down his house in order to erect something bigger , and inadvertently left his neighbour 's previously attached semi teetering sideways . |
| 4 | SIR — It was with considerable alarm that I read ( article , April 6 ) that William Kent furniture at Houghton may be sold at auction because the many items ‘ are additional to those on view ’ and that their loss ‘ would not be evident ’ . |
| 5 | But I must admit that I read the booklet with some reserve . |
| 6 | A final plaintive note records how , influenced by the advice of friends , this postlude does not include adverse commentary on the recent moves in the Department of Education to centralise the school curriculum ( ’ on the grounds that I read too much into what were chance decisions ’ ) and regretting accepting that advice . |
| 7 | It was with great interest and nostalgia that I read ‘ The Flying Busmen ’ in the March edition . |
| 8 | IT was with total disbelief that I read F Jefferay 's letter suggesting that the stiff fines imposed on those caught driving with worn tyres were designed purely to reduce car ownership . |
| 9 | ON Thursday 31st October , two days before the World Cup final , it was with dismay that I read one of my schoolboy heroes , David Duckham , being reported as commenting that he would be ‘ embarrassed and very sad if England won the Cup playing the way they did against Scots ’ . |
| 10 | You could n't join the library until you were seven , and before that I read my Hans Christian Anderson back to front when I 'd read it twenty times from start to finish . |
| 11 | When I explain that I read books for a living , people launch into a frenzy of apologetic explanation : ‘ I do n't have the time ! ’ ; |
| 12 | ‘ Sir , ’ they retort , ‘ it was with some amusement that I read the views … with astonishment … with disgust … self-appointed guardians of the public conscience … fashionable cant … appear to have forgotten those who , in two world wars … ’ |
| 13 | It was with a good measure of personal interest that I read a British Medical Journal article on the study of ‘ psychological consequences of road traffic accidents ’ . |
| 14 | I pass on an interesting snippet that I read on a computer news net . |
| 15 | The figures that I read out are for the first year . |
| 16 | I had marked another part of that article — not the paragraph that I read in an intervention , which was near the paragraph quoted by the hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth . |
| 17 | I should be just as happy to take the advice that I read in National Westminster Bank 's quarterly review , for instance . |
| 18 | I was a bit bored this lunchtime , so I though I 'd type in a bit of a report that I read in the Daily Mail about the Hibs game . |
| 19 | You put in general points , but specifically pick your point up on item three to do with Homeward Church Stretton , the reports that I read , er , from the visitors like yourself , to go to that children 's home , identify this as an issue every time . |
| 20 | I did n't spot any that er that were glaringly , do bear in mind that I read this quite late last night after I got in from that , that meeting I went |
| 21 | That I read ? |