Example sentences of "he be [v-ing] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How long has he been talking to you like that ? ’ |
| 2 | He observed instead , his tone reflective , almost as though he were speaking to himself , ‘ You manage well on your own . |
| 3 | For a moment , when Miles had looked so meltingly at her as those words poured from him , it seemed as though he were speaking to her , and the dark , wet night simply faded away from around her , and she was transported to a warm summer garden on the night of a Royal Ball . |
| 4 | He was so extraordinarily quiet and self-possessed , it was almost as if he were chatting to us confidentially about it all instead of making an elaborate speech . |
| 5 | He stared at the table as if he were talking to himself . |
| 6 | When he spoke again , it was as though he were talking to himself . |
| 7 | Golding 's voice sank to a murmur , as if he were talking to himself rather than Derek . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He shouted , so the doctor told Dexter , as if he were crying to someone a great distance away . |
| 10 | He is referring to his parents , I think . |
| 11 | ‘ Your father is a worried man and he is looking to you to make a good marriage , that way at least your own future will be secure . ’ |
| 12 | May we have the courage to respond when we sense that He is speaking to us . |
| 13 | ( Another example could be my answering the telephone in a high voice so as to make the caller think he is speaking to my sister . ) |
| 14 | ‘ when , as is common , the state has a more summary remedy , such as distress , and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he can not prevent , courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognise the implied duress under which payment is made . |
| 15 | In these latter he can interpose his objections by way of defence , but when , as it common , the state has a more summary remedy , such as distress , and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he can not prevent , courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognise the implied duress under which payment is made . |
| 16 | In these latter he can interpose his objections by way of defence , but when , as is common , the state has a more summary remedy , such as distress , and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he can not prevent , courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognise the implied duress under which payment is made . |
| 17 | In these latter he can interpose his objections by way of defence , but when , as is common , the state has a more summary remedy , such as distress , and the party indicates by protest that he is yielding to what he can not prevent , courts sometimes perhaps have been a little too slow to recognise the implied duress under which payment is made . |
| 18 | We have to allow for some license : he is writing to his brother in Paris about this street pick-up and doing his best to make it palatable . |
| 19 | He is writing to his sister , narrating the extraordinary tale that he has been told by Frankenstein . |
| 20 | He is talking to me as if I could be a partner in his business : he is drawing me in . |
| 21 | What he is doing to me he has practised in the classroom . |
| 22 | A third says : ‘ I love to read a few words of the Gospel , so that I can see Christ and listen to what He is saying to me . ’ |
| 23 | He is coming to your haus : J |
| 24 | You may need to help the patient at work , especially if he is returning to his own business . |
| 25 | And Jesus , in saying that , he is showing to us , and teaching us that , flesh can never be changed into anything else . |
| 26 | He hands me a brown manila file , and a handwritten invoice which I imagine he is giving to me now while the connection between the reams of faxes and the many noughts , in local shillings , of his invoice is still fresh . |
| 27 | He 's referring to me . |
| 28 | He 's speaking to it what he 's doing with that . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He 's apologizing to himself , for letting himself down . |