Example sentences of "he be [verb] to someone " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Gentleman is treating me as though he were talking to someone from Louisiana and wanting to finish the sentence before it has been started . |
| 2 | He shouted , so the doctor told Dexter , as if he were crying to someone a great distance away . |
| 3 | but it 's now erm , if the phone rings and he picks it up ah , er and he 's talking to someone on the phone someone else tries to ring |
| 4 | He was calling to someone , but I could n't hear what he was saying . |
| 5 | He was speaking to someone and beyond them I could see a brightly lit room with vast chandeliers and women in white dresses . |
| 6 | as if he was singing to someone he loved . |
| 7 | A stranger that was addressed by him would imagine he was talking to someone else , or if no other person was in the room , would stare about him , wondering what the fellow was talking to . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , ’ I said finally , ‘ he was talking to someone I 'm interested in . ’ |
| 9 | Apparently he was talking to someone called Helen , and used the words , ‘ You 've got to say I was with you ’ . ' |
| 10 | He was talking to someone . |