Example sentences of "he [is] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modesty asserted — he is selected to run in several events for his school against Mountain Ash and he writes : ‘ I hope there are no crack runners because I am no crack . ’ |
| 2 | STEVE OJOMOH flies to Lanzarote with the England squad this week sensing he is fated to play for the country that tried to deport him . |
| 3 | In pairs one partner assumes the role of any one of the people in the photograph and tells the other ( a colleague , friend or relative ) why he is tempted to go on the journey . |
| 4 | Following the success of Jamie Delgado in the Orange Bowl tournament in Florida in December , Lloyd confirms that he is looking to expand upon the squad scheme from which Delgado has emerged . |
| 5 | SACHIN Tendulkar , Yorkshire 's first overseas signing , is likely to miss the first five matches of the season because he is contracted to play in Bombay . |
| 6 | He is instructed to go to bed when he feels tired , to get up when he feels rested , and to eat meals when he estimates that it is breakfast , lunch , and dinner time . |
| 7 | Although it is the Lord Chancellor who makes orders closing records for longer than the normal thirty year period , in practice he is bound to rely on the advice of other departments . |
| 8 | ‘ It is sufficient to say that in Maskell v. Horner Lord Reading C.J. , referring to these authorities , and in particular to the advice given by Willes J. in Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton — where that learned judge said that he had ‘ always understood that when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received ’ — said that ‘ such claims made in this form of action are treated as matters of ordinary practice and beyond discussion . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ when a man pays more than he is bound to do by law for the performance of a duty which the law says is owed to him for nothing , or for less than he has paid , there is a compulsion or concussion in respect of which he is entitled to recover the excess by condictio indebiti , or action for money had and received . |
| 10 | A is a trustee of property for B , i.e. A has a legal right which he is bound to use for B's benefit ; B is said to have an equitable right to it or an equitable estate in it . |
| 11 | ( b ) Money paid to a person in a public or quasi-public position to obtain the performance by him of a duty which he is bound to perform for nothing or for less than the sum demanded by him is recoverable to the extent that he is not entitled to it . |
| 12 | ( c ) Money paid to a person for the performance of a statutory duty , which he is bound to perform for a sum less than that charged by him , is also recoverable to the extent of the overcharge . |
| 13 | He has said he is determined to remain in office until his term expires in July 1992 , but Mr Andreotti 's wobbly five-party government may find it ever harder to coexist with such a tempestuous president . |
| 14 | Biggins is regarded as the GM Vauxhall Conference 's most gifted midfielder , and with Brighton sliding down the Second Division and £2.5 million in the red , the 29-year-old says he is determined to put on a show that will humiliate the home side . |
| 15 | He is determined to live amongst his people , to travel with them . |
| 16 | There is a new self-confidence in unionism , since its talks representatives showed they could face down the opposition , and he is determined to build upon it . |
| 17 | MIDDLESBROUGH winger Stuart Ripley has dismissed speculation that he is poised to sign for Manchester United . |
| 18 | And he will look at the plans for the oil refinery which he is destined to build on this land . |
| 19 | Where the person under disability is a defendant or respondent , and a person proposes to act as " guardian ad litem " , he should deliver to the court office a defence , answer , counterclaim or admission , and if he is appointed to act by order of the Court of Protection , a sealed copy of the order . |
| 20 | He also became disenchanted with the amount of the correspondence ; his replies become shorter and shorter until , in September 1937 , his secretary wrote , " Mr Eliot also asked me to say that he is intending to write to you as soon as he has several consecutive free hours " . |
| 21 | He is beginning to feel at home up here . |
| 22 | Very reluctantly , he is beginning to think of moving with his family to South Africa , This is what many families are likely to do , unless there is an unexpected development . |
| 23 | He is cursed to stare into a mirror , preening himself , and then the reflection in the mirror suddenly changes , as does the appearance of the young man to match his reflection . |
| 24 | Even if he is trying to attend to the perspectival appearance presented to his point of view he may get it wrong . |
| 25 | He is trying to force through an entirely new system of democratic election by exploiting an arithmetical vagary of our existing one . |
| 26 | He is trying to sell off four building plots on his estate for up to £40,000 each to raise cash for an endowment fund . |
| 27 | The poet believes that any sensual experience will present an obstacle to his complete and serene inner contemplation , a state he is trying to achieve in his mind to gain perfection in an imperfect world . |
| 28 | This is the force which I am applying so relentlessly to Daniel Miller , this is the power he is trying to escape on his bumpy journey into the winter woodlands . |
| 29 | He is said to die in India , pierced with lances , and the tomb in which he is buried is later found empty . |
| 30 | He is said to sink onto his knee on the track and wait for the train to end his life ; the train crews used to look out for the shadowy figure and shudder . |