11.   They loved those old bones to be dragged out and cast to the ground where they could be read like runes.

12.   The book reads like a ballad.

13.   Her list of pupils read like a roll-call of the great and good.

14.   The book read like a black comic burlesque.

15.   Her biography reads like a series of disconnected stories.

16.   Her glowing review of his performance reads like a mash note from a lovesick fan.

17.   It all reads like an Agatha Christie novel.

18.   It reads like a device.

19.   The latest community care report from the Parliamentary Health Committee reads like a compendium of all the anxieties voiced in recent months.

20.   If I read I like to sit up, if I start to lie down I was like this.