This summer, I offered him one last chance to read the manuscript.

So I started reading the manuscript full of high hopes.

And he'd have to read the full manuscript first, to get the background.

Could you read the manuscript of my novel and tell me what's wrong?

He and his wife were still reading the manuscript that lay between them.

I had surprised even myself by not reading the manuscript immediately.

I've never written to an author before, but I wanted to give you a chance to read the attached manuscript.

She'd admired the author's earlier work and, after reading the manuscript, began to think about making an offer.

By the way, which publisher did you read manuscripts for?

She won the contest, a chance to have an editor read her full manuscript.