Example sentences of "i [be] refer [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Mrs Castle 's Diaries I am referred to with varying degrees of approval and disapproval . |
| 2 | I am referring of course to the process of closure — that is to say the ritualised responses , whereby the injured party acknowledges and accepts the accounts or apologies , thus allowing social activity to resume its productive course . |
| 3 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 4 | But the disobedience I am referring to here is of a very particular kind . |
| 5 | I am referring to Dr. Bach Flower Remedies , a mixed distillation of which I had been prescribed and acquired at Bristol . |
| 6 | I am referring to a level of promiscuity which even the most liberal heterosexual would regard as immoral . |
| 7 | When I refer to the ‘ Popular Purgatory ’ I am referring to the Purgatory which is most widely known — the place referred to in Roman Catholic teaching and which is said to be arrived at after death . |
| 8 | I am referring to the work of the Council of Europe ( see Trim et al . |
| 9 | The letter I am referring to now at the moment is a particular token instance of letter as a lexical item , a general conceptual type , a codified abstraction . |
| 10 | I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel . |
| 11 | By ‘ accepted meaning ’ I am referring to one accepted by participants in the phenomena — it is clearly constituted for Barthes as an interpretation against which he is speaking . |
| 12 | By wishes I am referring to the internal directions and aspirations that people have for their own professional lives and development : their preferences , their ambitions , their chosen career path , their enthusiasms and above all their values . |
| 13 | I am referring to their EMI recording of Nicholas Maw 's great work Odyssey . |
| 14 | The three small inner-city communities that we studied in this way would have been assumed by traditional scholars to be homogeneous in language , and the fine-grained but systematic variation I am referring to here would not have been thought possible . |
| 15 | When I say " The oldest tree in the park is an oak " , I am referring to the the tall tree of rich foliage standing half-way between the eastern gate and children 's playing ground . |
| 16 | My children will have already guessed that I am referring to a brandade . |
| 17 | " I am referring to this . " |
| 18 | ‘ Forgive me , my lord , but the matter I am referring to is in the second file . |
| 19 | What I am referring to is elementary structural-functionalist sociology , in which modernization is seen as a process of structural differentiation ( Ausdifferenzierung ) . |
| 20 | ‘ My friend : I am referring to you . |
| 21 | ‘ I am referring to that foolish note you wrote me , ’ Theda said , winding her hair into a plait as she spoke , her voice deliberately cool over the tremors inside her . |
| 22 | I am referring to the machine tool industry , which is a key industry now suffering and struggling to keep seventh place in the world . |
| 23 | The incident I am referring to is the government 's plan to shrink and disband many major regiments throughout Britain . |
| 24 | That is I think that when I refer to and when I refer to I am referring to the same thing |
| 25 | I AM referring to the letter in last week 's ISN from the enlightened Glenman ( ha ha ) . |
| 26 | The type of abortion I am referring to is induced and I believe that the woman should be given the right to be able to choose whether she needs one , rather than certain religious leaders or laws . |
| 27 | The sing-song voice , the perverse placing of stress — you 've heard them , you know what I 'm referring to . |
| 28 | The market that I 'm referring to is in shoes , sizes above UK 11 . |
| 29 | Now the legal position : though I 'm referring to England , the law is , in my view , very similar in California . |
| 30 | The quality I 'm referring to was something common enough here in Latin America , but very rare in the land of booze and animal fats , where the women seem to have taken to heart mad Hamlet 's advice to let their honesty admit no discourse to their beauty . |