Example sentences of "he be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I like the quiet of Beckenham , where no one bothers your balls , ’ said Dad , thinking that that was the end of the matter , as it would have been had he been talking to Mum . |
| 2 | ‘ How long has he been talking to you like that ? ’ |
| 3 | So whom had he been talking to ? |
| 4 | So will he be returning to sea ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He observed instead , his tone reflective , almost as though he were speaking to himself , ‘ You manage well on your own . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There seemed no stopping her and he felt as if he were listening to some of the most important information he had ever heard . |
| 9 | His tone had been matter-of-fact , as if he were reporting to a committee . |
| 10 | It was as if he were going to the edge again of something fresh and new . |
| 11 | But now , the soft clicks coming with typical irregularity , he listened to them painfully and let his mind slide back ten years to what he must remember , to the truth he must recall if he were going to be able to tell lies . |
| 12 | His other neighbour 's child-bride kissed her boy hero each morning , in her floating web dressing gown , as if he were going to the Falklands for three months . |
| 13 | I 've got one brother , but he was younger than me and at that time he were going to school anyway . |
| 14 | Yeah he 'd got some letters , apparently he were going to Post Office later for stamps and everything and er got this letter and seeings I 'd only got three he give me his , give me twenty four pence for a stamp so I walked to Post Office , I thought well I do n't want no penny or tuppeny stamps . |
| 15 | He stared at the table as if he were talking to himself . |
| 16 | ‘ No Villanuova has ever had a job , that 's why , ’ he replied as if he were talking to a child . |
| 17 | When he spoke again , it was as though he were talking to himself . |
| 18 | Golding 's voice sank to a murmur , as if he were talking to himself rather than Derek . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He shouted , so the doctor told Dexter , as if he were crying to someone a great distance away . |
| 21 | He is referring to his parents , I think . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I wonder which part of the sentence he is referring to . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He is referring to the fact that people are prepared to compromise and will accept half-measures . |