Example sentences of "[pron] refer " in BNC.
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| 1 | I refer to this part of my life as my grey period . |
| 2 | I refer here to the tendency of refereeing officials to ‘ expect ’ a certain person to win a bout . |
| 3 | I refer to this significant dispute in passing , without engaging in it , except to say that feminists are divided on whether they want to establish a countercanon or extend the existing one . |
| 4 | Sir : I refer to Peter Wilby 's Viewpoint ( 29 September ) . |
| 5 | Sir : I refer to the dropping of charges against the man accused of raping a mentally handicapped girl on the grounds she was not of fit mind to answer questions and give evidence ( 4 October ) . |
| 6 | I refer to would-be parliamentary candidates , Bordes-type aspirants with lunging bosoms and other improbable specimens , who seek to board the Candidates ' List , and in due course may turn up before our selection committees . |
| 7 | I refer to the federal corollary . |
| 8 | I refer to Julia Kristeva 's somewhat obscure remarks about ‘ the role that the pervert , with his invincible belief in the maternal phallus and his obstinate refusal to recognise the existence of the other sex , has been able to play in anti-semitism and the totalitarian movements that embrace it , . |
| 9 | The desire to create a pseudo-history of the movement 's afterlife may be good for business , and may have provided extra material for the book ( I refer to the Boston text , see pp. 10–13 ) but it is not in keeping with the purer aims of the Situationists outlined elsewhere in these and other texts . |
| 10 | I refer to opera-going : something that has become not merely trendy but deep-rootedly popular . |
| 11 | And yet if I refer you to no other example than that little one-legged girl whom we saw not so long ago in our Provence , does n't your universal statement collapse ? ’ |
| 12 | Having been a subscriber from your first issue , I find myself already amazed at how often I refer to my various back numbers . |
| 13 | I refer , of course , to cricket , with its readiness to award runs for leg-byes . |
| 14 | I refer to Spitting Image ( ITV ) , which last time round was held in check until the polls had safely closed , but this time was allowed an outing on Wednesday while the electorate were still technically making up their minds . |
| 15 | Throughout the discussion I refer interchangeably to the state , which is the political organization of a society , its government , the agent through which it acts , and the law , the vehicle through which much of its power is exercised . |
| 16 | When ‘ neutral ’ is used in this sense I refer to it as by-product neutrality , for here neutrality may well be an accidental by-product of the agent 's action and not its intended outcome . |
| 17 | I refer to your fax of 17 April , in which you provide details of the type of research you propose to do for which you need an electronic dictionary tape . |
| 18 | I refer to my letter to EMI of 5 June ( copy attached ) and my request for permission for Oxford University Press to use certain tracks in a non-broadcast educational video entitled Project Video . |
| 19 | I refer to my letter to you of 18 May last , in which I explained that the Agreement that you had signed for the above tape had not been signed on behalf of Oxford University Press , and that the duplicate copy which you had retained for your records needed to be returned to us for signature in Oxford before I could despatch your copy of the tape to you . |
| 20 | I refer you to my letter of 30 March on the subject of the above tape . |
| 21 | I refer you to my letter of 8 March regarding the above tape , with which I sent you two copies of the Agreement that had been drawn up ( following your request of 7 March ) . |
| 22 | ( I refer to your contract of 30 March 1987 , clause 3 , for A Weekend Away and A Week by the Sea and of 17 June 1988 , clause 1.1 c ) , for Mystery Tour . ) |
| 23 | ( I refer to your contract of 30 March 1987 , clause 3 , for A Weekend Away and A Week by the Sea and of 17 June 1988 , clause 1.1 c ) , for Mystery Tour . ) |
| 24 | If you have ever had the privilege of meeting such men , you will no doubt know of the quality they possess to which I refer . |
| 25 | I refer to things such as good accent and command of language , general knowledge on wide-ranging topics such as falconing or newt-mating — attributes none of which my father could have boasted . |
| 26 | It will be noticed that I refer only to those cases where the patient , or someone on his behalf , has made his view known . |
| 27 | I refer to the ordinary working people of Britain . |
| 28 | When I refer to ‘ large quantities ’ I mean only that they are large in comparison with the amount of other types of bait one would normally use , i.e. 1lb of tares represents many thousands of particles , whereas 1lb of groundbait is a small amount . |
| 29 | The Covenanting pictures of Sir George Harvey are the very near realization of that which I refer to . |
| 30 | I refer to the children closer and closer to the margins of predictable deviation — the hyperactive youngster with emotional problems , which brings autism to the edge of the teacher 's diagnosis ; the child , otherwise quick-witted , who has massively disabling short-term memory and a confusion in decoding letters : what some would call dyslexia ; the child whose spatial intelligence is exceptionally and marvellously out of line with the celebratory rites of the school community , who fails in conventional school work . |