I read it just before dinner in the old newspaper.

I read all 3 million words before my 13th birthday.

He liked to be read to at night, before bed.

For one part, students are given a long article to read about two weeks before the exam.

I've decided to read this in a team meeting before the game tomorrow.

Few had ever read a word of Shakespeare before the play.

If only she had read the journals before her mother died.

I stopped for two hours to read and rest before the dusty drive back.

He read the results out for the last time on 19 November 2011, just a week before his 82nd birthday.

If she didn't change, she'd have an hour or so to read before dinner.

He had read the story before, but a long time back, and its complications were fresh to him.

Father was telling mother of a thing he had read in a news magazine on the day before.

What little of it we have not read before, that is.

Their stories "thrilled me as nothing I had ever read before," he said.

I tried to pick up a book that I'd been reading the day before, but it was no good.

I have never tried to teach anyone to read before.

There's something to be said for reading books you never would have read before.

And now he knew where he'd read of this man before.

There were the entries not unlike those I had read before.

He'd read about this phenomenon before, but never seen if until now.