Example sentences of "read [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I read somewhere that it cost £30,000 to do the season nowadays . |
| 2 | I read somewhere that this slenderness was to allow bream freedom of movement between stems of marginal growth such as reeds , and for many years I accepted this as fact . |
| 3 | I read somewhere that it was a good idea to specialise in one kind of garment . |
| 4 | I read somewhere that Joe has lymphoma . |
| 5 | Allegedly , I read somewhere that the killing of native American Indians was the biggest genocide in world history . |
| 6 | More recently , Jourgensen himself told a journalist : ‘ I read somewhere that I had contracted AIDS and was visiting a Mexican treatment centre . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I read somewhere that even if every atom in the universe could be made to function as a flipflop switch in a binary computer , it still would n't be big enough to follow all the possible routes that the universe could create . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I read somewhere that more than 47 per cent of British women are size sixteen or over , ’ Alex said . |
| 9 | Also Ive read somewhere that Wilko is waiting for Oldham to put a realistic price on jobsons head … the 2million ( cash plus hodge deal ) being the upper limit . |
| 10 | I read somewhere that Charlton chased him round the goal for this , is that true ? ? |
| 11 | ‘ When I read somewhere that Simon Cooper 's girlfriend had given birth to a son , I have to admit I was surprised , ’ Vitor said , with a glance at Thomas , who was engrossed in an item-by-item search of his toy box . |
| 12 | I read once that when people get old and go senile , they go back to a time in their life when they were useful . |
| 13 | I read once that nobody can stand more than ten years in prison , or more than one year of solitary confinement . |
| 14 | So wrote Llewelyn from Aber ; and between the lines they read plainly that though he might still be arguing for peace he had ceased to believe in it or greatly to desire it . |
| 15 | I read recently that applicants for the Institute of Advanced Motorists test are in the ratio of one woman to four men , but the success rate shows virtually the same number of women passing as men . |
| 16 | I read recently that if two people in partnership agree , one is unnecessary ! |
| 17 | I HAD to laugh when I read recently that a water authority had charged a customer for collecting rain-water , claiming that it belonged to them . |
| 18 | I read recently that your Department is considering increases in the tax on petrol ( and tobacco ) as a means of increasing revenue . |
| 19 | I read recently that the German Defence Minister , Volker Ruehe , claimed that Britain was ill able to afford the EFA in its proposed form . |