Example sentences of "be referring to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they 're referring to your , um , ‘ distinctive ’ dance style ? |
| 2 | Actually we 're referring to the new Data-call System which locates and despatches your taxi . |
| 3 | And there 's also the factor , of course , that we 're referring to faceless unknowns in a far-off land . ’ |
| 4 | Right , I know now what you 're referring to . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd better tell me what you 're referring to , ’ she replied warily . |
| 6 | ‘ From which , ’ Luke said smoothly , ‘ I must gather you 're referring to me . |
| 7 | He watched her guardedly for a moment , then he said , ‘ Do I take it that you 're referring to Elise ? ’ |
| 8 | So , in the example you 're referring to , I had like a title and then I had a sub-title and further details and another sub- title and further details , and then I had a total line |
| 9 | ‘ If you 're referring to me as a — ’ |
| 10 | Yes , they 're referring to the fact I 'm just going for a , it 's a hernia operation actually , so er everybody says , oh you , no problem at all . |
| 11 | Yeah unless they 're referring to tomorrow 's ? there 's a crossed line somewhere |
| 12 | when they 're referring to the tractor or the horse or the car |
| 13 | ‘ I think I 'd have a hard job trying to find the sort of excitement you 're referring to here , around Loch Lomond . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ If you 're referring to what happened at the Sala dell'Arte , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 15 | This Julian person we 're referring to is , is a complete and utter crimple |
| 16 | Yes , I mean that sort of action , of course they can take , and I think you 're referring to the letter that was in the article that Suzy Orbath wrote erm a couple of weeks ago in the Guardian . |
| 17 | The sing-song voice , the perverse placing of stress — you 've heard them , you know what I 'm referring to . |
| 18 | The market that I 'm referring to is in shoes , sizes above UK 11 . |
| 19 | Now the legal position : though I 'm referring to England , the law is , in my view , very similar in California . |
| 20 | The quality I 'm referring to was something common enough here in Latin America , but very rare in the land of booze and animal fats , where the women seem to have taken to heart mad Hamlet 's advice to let their honesty admit no discourse to their beauty . |
| 21 | You know what I 'm referring to . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm referring to the Labour voters who allowed a Conservative to win by not voting Liberal Democrat , and the Liberal Democrat voters who allowed a Conservative to win by not voting Labour . |
| 23 | There 's a kind of silence which has nothing to do with paying attention , it 's all to do with people wishing they were somewhere else — and I 'm referring to the audience . |
| 24 | I 'm referring to the WinTach program which gives four Windows benchmarks for your own system and compares the results with a base 386 machine . |
| 25 | The letter I 'm referring to was from Anne V Ridings . |
| 26 | " I 'm referring to a leading article which appeared in The Times concerning the Exhibition and which I should like to read you ( by a fortunate chance I happen to have it on my person ) . |
| 27 | Of course , one has to be careful in this context to recognise that many of the infractions I 'm referring to are not necessarily offences AGAINST others — but represent errors of performance , imperfections which reflect badly on the offender — so that one undertakes remedial work , NOT for the purpose of making amends but to re-draw the picture of oneself so that it corresponds more closely to the one which one would like to project to the world at large . |
| 28 | However , it may incidentally erm come into the words that I use that erm er I 'm referring to the washed-over or other status of these two sites . |
| 29 | I 'm referring to oral tradition . |
| 30 | I 'm referring to the habit shopkeepers have of leaving a note on their door saying : ‘ Back in half an hour . ’ |