Example sentences of "i read [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been everywhere in books : I read a lot about exotic places . |
| 2 | When I read a book or saw a play or studied a synopsis , there came into my mental vision a fairly detailed and consecutive pattern of what the film would be like . |
| 3 | Years ago I read a sentence which has remained with me through the years . |
| 4 | In researching this book I read a quote from a well-known doctor working with girls with eating disorders : he said that in the West , if you are female and do not have hang-ups about your body , you are abnormal . |
| 5 | Inside the former , I read a strange inscription beside the early-seventeenth-century tomb of Sir Roger Jones , Knight , formerly Governor of Sligo Castle : ‘ This tomb has been restored by Past Masters of ‘ Light of the West ’ Lodge , this Year of Our Lord 1922 , and of Free Masonry 5922 . ’ |
| 6 | I did n't meet Miss Freedman , but I read a statement she had typed out . |
| 7 | When I read a novel the emotions aroused in me bring the experience of the events of the narrative into the present , but I am not likely to be misled into thinking it is actually happening for there are enough indicators in the environment to assure me that it is not . |
| 8 | Balfour came to stay at Petworth between the wars and I read a letter to him from another guest saying that she was sure that what they would both remember most about the visit was the intense cold of the house . |
| 9 | In 1982 I read a short report published in Outwrite Women 's Newspaper by Ingrid Pollard — who is now a well known social documentary photographer . |
| 10 | I found I read a lot of books and so on , I rested a lot . |
| 11 | Well , I read a lot these days . |
| 12 | I read a lot as a child , but as a teenager I read every book in our local library . |
| 13 | I read a lot , proper books like Lost Illusions and The Red and the Black , and went to bed early , in training for love and work . |
| 14 | It 's a very simple rhythm , but he had written the whole thing shifted over and I got the manuscript and I 'm looking at it and going ‘ Man , I know it 's been a while since I read a lot of solo guitar , but this does n't look right ! ’ |
| 15 | I read a book — I do n't know — some metamorphosist or something who went to live on an island — anyway , he believes , he says that there is something — that things are caught in light and space waves , that we do n't die , that it 's all still here , but that we just ca n't see it . |
| 16 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 17 | During those times I read a great deal — mostly books chosen for me by my father and which I thought more suitable for boys than for girls — Jack London , Rider Haggard , Talbot Baines Reed , Arthur Ransome . |
| 18 | I read a great deal of poetry , especially the Romantics , learning long passages by heart , and found some solace there to lift me above the sordid realities of everyday life . |
| 19 | Although I read a great deal , and wrote a great deal , meal-times were still what kept me going . |
| 20 | I read a lot of modern novels , you know . |
| 21 | I read women authors voraciously , and when you consider this was in pre-Women 's Press and Virago days , it meant I read a strange variety of subjects : history , travel , witchcraft , politics , poetry , theology , philosophy , even Victorian novelettes on the evils of alcohol inspired by the Temperance League . |
| 22 | I read a lot , Joe , and it appears to me that every man , even every thinking man has always had a different view of the same subject ; the more I read of men and their lives and their ideas the more I realise there 's no black and white in the world ; there 's good points to be found even in the blackest , and there 's some very dark streaks in the so-called saints . |
| 23 | I read a great book recently by a guy called Yoop Hoopla , who 's done a lot of research into Stone Age leylines , ancient mythology and things like that . |
| 24 | I read a nice one once , all about a poor girl who was found in the snow with a lost memory by a young and 'andsome squire that took her home to 'is castle and — ’ |
| 25 | In your December/January issue of Tennis World I read a letter entitled ‘ Thank you Martina ’ . |
| 26 | I read a book by the American painter Charles Reid who said that rather than paint a dark background all round a daisy it is sometimes better to put just one dark drop of colour behind the vase of the petal to get the most impact . |
| 27 | The baby sleeps for about an hour from 11 till 12 — I 'm afraid I read a book then — I do n't do very much housework ! |
| 28 | I 'm not always very good at saying what I mean , except at work , that is ; I 've been to Europe and the States but never to Nineveh and Distant Ophir ; I do n't have much time — literally — for the arts , though I 'm not against them in any way , you understand ( sometimes there 's a nice concert on the car radio ; like most people I read a book or two on holiday ) ; and I do n't give much of a thought to my clothes beyond looking smart at work and feeling comfortable when I get home . |
| 29 | Perspective telescopes : with my nasty coffee , I read a report on race riots in my native city , where family and friends remain , as if it were recounting the behaviour of black and white mice in cramped and stressful lab conditions . |
| 30 | At the beginning , I read a moral stance into the therapist 's answers , until I realized it was n't really there and that he was actually playing the role of my alter ego — sometimes being the ‘ right ’ and ‘ good ’ side of me . |