McKellar's spare time was used reading about sport and First World War fighter pilots.
The city's pediatricians are now seeing about 50 cases of congenital syphilis a year, a disease they only used to read about, said the hospital's pediatric epidemiologist, Dr. Emilia Bashenova.
Of the queen and royal family he says he suspects "they preferred political leaders" who "fully subscribed to their general outlook — or the 'authentic' Labour people, the sort they used to read about, who spoke with an accent and who fitted their view of how such people should be".
Right from the beginning, though, her gender works against her in all of the ways we're used to reading about in white papers about why there aren't more women C.E.O.s.
Finally, they will use these as a springboard for staging their own scenes from the play in a new way, using an adaptation they have read about as a model.
That is why, in the next few days, don't be surprised if every Tory politician you see, hear, or read about is using that word (at least those loyal to the government) to claim that there is progress in the Brexit talks, just days after the chief negotiator on the EU side declared a deadlock.
She used to read about New York, study the history.
We used to read about them in the papers, but suddenly we were playing against them.
I used to read about women who stood in their children's deserted bedrooms, mooning about and smelling their sheets.
Growing up, "I used to read about Ben Carson in Jet magazine," she said, referring to the neurosurgeon.
