Example sentences of "he be referring to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is referring to his parents , I think . |
| 2 | ‘ Everything 's more difficult these days , ’ grumbles a bed-ridden pensioner in a Chilean film ; and although , as it happens , he is referring to that day 's crossword , the comment itself speaks volumes . |
| 3 | He is referring to a study published last year in the British Medical Journal in which the complementary therapy of chiropractic was compared with conventional physiotherapy in the treatment of low back pain . |
| 4 | As we have seen , Gandhi recognizes that no single religion can embody the whole truth , and that all particular religions contain errors since they are human constructs or formulations , but does it follow necessarily that when he speaks of Religion underlying all human constructs , or at the heart of all religions , he is referring to an ‘ essence ’ of an ‘ entity ’ or a ‘ primordial form ’ of religion after the fashion of Schleiermacher ? |
| 5 | Waugh himself ca n't be blamed for the wrenching out of a context that might have helped us to understand whether he is referring to unhappy women , rendered so by not being content with their lot , or men , who are now being forced to lend a hand with the Hoover . |
| 6 | When he says that ‘ English ’ relates to such cultural characteristics as ‘ objectivity ’ in specific ways , he is referring to a language-system , not to English in the loose everyday sense . |
| 7 | I wonder which part of the sentence he is referring to . |
| 8 | When he talks of the ‘ metal landscape ’ he is referring to the world of the train and not to the one of green landscapes which we would expect . |
| 9 | Perhaps he is referring to some figures that were leaked a couple of weeks ago from the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland — a reference to 44 inward investment jobs . |
| 10 | He is referring to the fact that people are prepared to compromise and will accept half-measures . |
| 11 | He is referring to France as this is where the poem is set as it combines the rest of the world in with this one man , the sun being the common factor , France , I think , represent the rest of the world and since it is a funny thought this single object waking up the whole population , Owen uses the words ‘ even in ’ . |
| 12 | And I think this inward investment that Professor Lock is referring to and the scale of investment that he is referring to must be considered as additional and and would draw in additional jobs . |
| 13 | This is very subjective and I question whose past he 's referring to . |
| 14 | No , I think he 's referring to Chapel , you 're referring |
| 15 | He 's referring to me . |
| 16 | He was referring to Lou Duva , his former manager , and George Benton , then trainer . |
| 17 | He was referring to the opposition leader , Aung San Suu Kyi , whose home on Inya lake , northern Rangoon , is surrounded by troops to enforce her house-arrest and General Ne Win , whose residence on the other side of the lake is also surrounded by troops and who rarely ventures out . |
| 18 | He was referring to the times at Achnacarry when I would on occasion meet the trainees returning from a speed march and pipe them the last two miles back to the camp . |
| 19 | ‘ That bitch … ’ said Surkov softly , and I knew at once he was referring to Imogen . |
| 20 | The Bryce he was referring to was the general handyman . |
| 21 | There was a time , early in their days at Cambridge , when a brilliant and handsome research student from Yale made a determined pitch for Robyn , and she had been rather dazzled and excited by the experience ( he wooed her with a heady mixture of the latest post Freudian theoretical jargon and devastatingly frank sexual propositions , so she was never quite sure whether it was Lacan 's symbolic phallus he was referring to or his own real one ) . |
| 22 | He was referring to the remainder of Layforce which had been formed into the Middle East Commando , the Foldboat Section ( SBS ) and the ‘ parachute personnel ’ . |
| 23 | He was referring to ‘ prime ’ and ‘ premium ’ sausages in which you might expect leaner meat , less filler material , or less fat . |
| 24 | Ignorantly , I thought he was referring to the great Catholic/Protestant divide . |
| 25 | He was referring to the British Government 's ‘ bloody Tories ’ trade block against Russia whose revolution threatened European equilibrium . |
| 26 | He was referring to the well known local character whose unenviable job as council dustman , included emptying the local toilet buckets , as there was no running water in the area The local joke was that Terry had no problem getting a drink . |
| 27 | It was all a roundabout way of saying that Sien was synonymous with sorrow , and perhaps as well he was referring to the sorrowing mother of their childhood . |
| 28 | So when our Lord spoke about the Kingdom of Heaven being at hand , he was referring to its being qualitatively present . |
| 29 | He was referring to Argentine players with clubs abroad who , according to local laws , can not play for the Pumas . |
| 30 | He was referring to three extraordinary prices . |