Example sentences of "have be referring to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So Alexei has been referring to me as his uncle ? ’ |
| 2 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 3 | Perhaps he 'd been referring to someone else as well ? |
| 4 | I had never suspected she had ever loved any man but Simon Ellis and I knew she could not have been referring to him since she had never spoken of him without affection and great kindness . |
| 5 | The Rhodesia Metals case was referred to in the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 and it follows that when Lord Bridge used the words ‘ place where the property was let ’ he must have been referring to the place where the property let was situated and not to the place or places where the lease happened to have been signed . |
| 6 | must have been referring to R.S.C. , Ord. 59 , r. 10(3) rather than to the Act of 1960 when he said that ‘ in cases of contempt , however , these powers will be used only in exceptional cases ’ because section 13 is solely concerned with appeals in cases of contempt . |
| 7 | They might have been referring to somebody they knew . |
| 8 | ‘ And it did n't occur to you that I might have been referring to you ? ’ |
| 9 | But by a proud assertion of " independence " , an eighteenth-century artisan more likely would have been referring to his ability to maintain a wife and family at a proper standard without recourse to charity or poor relief . |
| 10 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 11 | What I have been referring to vaguely as the knowledge system , Fodor calls the central systems . |
| 12 | A crucial assumption of the kinds of statistical calculations we have been referring to is that the sample has been randomly drawn from some population . |