Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] to he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be interesting to know whether Petrey really does hold the views I am attributing to him , and whether he thinks that speech act theories of semantics are therefore based on a fundamental error . |
| 2 | Now all I 'm suggesting to him is that there is here apparently a requirement laid down by the treaty which ca n't be aggregated by any one individual member state which could actually only be enforced by reference to a court of justice and what I 'd like to ask is in the light of this very deep seated concern by the French about Strasbourg er and the European parliament building and the knowledge that this is of such importance to the er of er voting and of representation in the community of the European elections . |
| 3 | I 'm , I 'm talking to him about the planned s filing system as well , which is |
| 4 | But I always seem to end up lecturing when I 'm talking to him , you know instead of just saying , I was saying I want them all to be independent , you know ! |
| 5 | I went and got last night and I 'm saying to him , now give me your numbers . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm chained to him , bad as they are . |
| 7 | ‘ — if I were affianced to him , ’ continued Anne without batting an eyelid , ‘ instead of — ’ |
| 8 | I were talking to him on Friday , and er , I mean , they 've not been down there five minutes . |
| 9 | Ah now you think about it , I mean there was this question in our maths test and I was chatting to him in the dinner queue about it and I was going yeah it was this and he goes oh you 're probably right and he was agreeing with me and I found out later that I was wrong but he still agreed with me . |
| 10 | Little did he know I was referring to him , to his associates , and in particular , to that alliance of the devil : Hitler and Mussolini . |
| 11 | Yet , when I saw him on this occasion , he seemed more than usually calm and quiet , which , given that the most painful of interrupters might arrive at any hour , showed that when , in the very essay I was delivering to him , he had talked about the necessity for the ‘ discipline and training of the emotions ’ , he meant what he said and practised it . |
| 12 | I was getting to him . |
| 13 | I thought I was getting to him . |
| 14 | I believe , perhaps , even then , I was speaking to him , to Leon . |
| 15 | ‘ I was sold to him . |
| 16 | ‘ I was talking to him in the post office . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I was talking to him this morning , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ I was talking to him this morning , ’ Richard said again , wondering why he could not control his shivering . |
| 19 | As a matter of fact , I was talking to him briefly this afternoon and we agreed we 'd have a chat some time . |
| 20 | With a broad smile , he explained , ‘ When I was talking to him the other day , and I happened to mention that an old friend of my sister 's was coming to Ireland , and that I was going to show her round Dublin , and that we 'd agreed to meet here , and about how scatty … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ When I was talking to him , he had this habit of looking over my head and I wondered whether what I was saying was going in , but he was digesting it and seeing how he could turn it round to his way of doing things . |
| 22 | Nought for presuming I was talking to him when I made that call . ’ |
| 23 | No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him . |
| 24 | No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him . |
| 25 | No , and I had I er I had tried to appeal to him to be quiet , he said well I 've got to build this shed , I said well it do n't have to be during the night when other people are trying to sleep , he said well that 's up to them , and he started hammering again , while I was talking to him , and then I kept on and on and eventually , I think while I was talking to him I 'd kept him quiet while I was talking to him . |
| 26 | Well I was talking to him about it , I said I reckon you 've spent the you 've spent quite a bit now so you might as well just go another get final . |
| 27 | He said I was talking to him earlier on , I |
| 28 | I was talking to him about that and I got a totally different response from him that I expected did n't mind . |
| 29 | i was talking to him yesterday |
| 30 | Yeah I 'm afraid so , I think it 's compounded by the fact that your , what your dad says sums it up beautifully about your mum , I was talking to him about , you know , what does she , what she 's got in her life other than what she ever had other than a home , working and so on , has she got any hobbies at home or does she do anything is there anything that takes her mind off things |