Example sentences of "he is [v-ing] 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 | Nevertheless , one reason why Mr Hammer 's message has been received so eagerly is that , to a large extent , he is preaching to the converted . |
| 14 | However , if he has disclosed that fact so as to indicate that he is transferring to the purchaser only his own possessory title , then he will not be in breach of the condition , section 12(3) . |
| 15 | If he is moving to a wheelchair with a removable arm , it is placed at right angles to the bed , and his feet remain level with each other . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Stockton 's mayor , Coun Stephen Smailes , disclosed this week he is complaining to broadcasting chiefs that the pick of the programmes during a BBC promotion in Cleveland next week will come from Middlesbrough . |
| 18 | Part of the time he may almost be unaware that he is speaking to another person — after all Gila does n't understand English very well and it is unlikely that she would fully understand the references to Rupert Brooke and the poem ‘ The Old Vicarage , Grantchester ’ . |
| 19 | May we have the courage to respond when we sense that He is speaking to us . |
| 20 | Green talks a good deal in an inflated style , and always looks sideways at the object he is speaking to ; when he looks directly forward , it is at some piece of furniture or other inanimate object , still talking all the while . |
| 21 | ( 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 . ) |
| 22 | He is speaking to the scribes , to the Pharisees . |
| 23 | He is speaking to the scribes and Pharisees . |
| 24 | He is tending to pre cis the petition . |
| 25 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 26 | O'Leary is in the second year of a leisure management course at West London Institute where he says he is adjusting to minor celebrity status . |
| 27 | It is sometimes argued that an experienced programmer can detect the ‘ general shape ’ of a particular high-level language X from blocks of machine code , just by hunch and judgement , but this ignores the possibility that the code may have been written in language Y with the syntactic style of X precisely in order to create this confusion ; just as one can murmur English with a German intonation and cause a distant listener to believe he is listening to unintelligible German . |
| 28 | Now he is hoping to be picked for the match against Spain in the Canary Islands to give his career a real boost . |
| 29 | He is hoping to rope in Madonna to record her next album there . |
| 30 | Essentially , there is no real answer to this question because , in most cases of fraud , the transferor actually believes that the transferee is the person he is pretending to be . |