Example sentences of "he 's [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is very subjective and I question whose past he 's referring to . |
| 2 | No , I think he 's referring to Chapel , you 're referring |
| 3 | He 's referring to me . |
| 4 | Oh he 's speaking to pussy . |
| 5 | He 's speaking to it what he 's doing with that . |
| 6 | Du n no who he 's speaking to , Lisa or me . |
| 7 | Yeah , he had to sing it like that and then , then there 's , there 's only two of them , you know and erm , the , er , other , the other one , he 's a black man yeah , and he goes who 's that big gorilla in the back and he 's pointing to me . |
| 8 | Erm he 's aspiring to be a fireman or something . |
| 9 | Carole did n't appear to notice the English girl 's slightly hesitant reply as she continued enthusiastically , ‘ He 's proving to be a terrific father-figure , is n't he ? |
| 10 | Now he 's hoping to be back on the golf course soon and singing again by the end of the year . |
| 11 | He 's looking to all these outside things to make him a man , make him happy . |
| 12 | He 's looking to getting out of the hospit looking forward to a , a change |
| 13 | ‘ It 's possible he 's listening to every word we say . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't want readers getting the wrong idea about this letter , but the compulsion to write came on seeing people like Jeff Young , who thinks I Should Be So Lucky is a good song ( well , it probably is , if you 're 10 years old ) ; Norman Jay , who does n't want bands to get in touch if all they want is a record deal ; Mick Clarke , who ‘ wants people to tell him what he 's listening to is good ’ , then only signs people he likes , etc . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , he 's listening to the radio . |
| 16 | and he 's listening to a tape that his mum has sent him . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's goin' to head-up world planning operations from Detroit . ’ |
| 18 | Like an unearthly cross between Paul McCartney , Gerry Sadowitz and someone you beat up every day at school , Louis is Kinky Machine 's trump card , illegally bad leather jacket cast aside to reveal bare chest within seconds , silly guitar played above the head on all-too-many occasions , halfway-house haircut shaken at the crowd as if he 's trying to violently throw off a wig . |
| 19 | He does n't realize it fully yet , because he 's trying to be nice to me at the moment . |
| 20 | I think he 's trying to be sensible and doing it all wrong . ’ |
| 21 | Yes , and he 's trying to sort of to put a erm a picture in your mind of , of these er er specific things and here is one , here is one , they 're not all like that , however I think th this may be a very good way of er of getting the whole lot overthrown , he may be erm I mean how do you , how do you define these things ? |
| 22 | He 's trying to be all things to all men is n't he ? |
| 23 | just inside it , he 's trying to , why not ? |
| 24 | He 's trying to be very he 's trying to be very hard . |
| 25 | He 's trying to be very he 's trying to be very hard . |
| 26 | Er , it strikes me with the , with the comedy , he 's trying to be so funny that he shoots off at all these angles and not having |
| 27 | But Gascoigne wins it back , but Stein beats Gascoigne to the ball , lays it forward now to Simpson , Simpson — bad ball by Simpson , it 's Spurs in possession down the right side , it 's Paul Allen faced by Gary again , in fact it 's Paul Stewart , Stewart gets inside , will he get in the shooting chance , he 's trying to — chance now for Gascoigne , Gascoignes get in his shot and he 's scored . |
| 28 | He 's apologizing to himself , for letting himself down . |
| 29 | He 's facing to Amy . |
| 30 | That 's his story and he 's sticking to it anyway ! |