Example sentences of "[pron] he [is] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where A makes a promise to B in consideration of B doing or promising to do something which he is already bound to do by reason of a duty imposed upon him by law , whether by a Statute or otherwise : for instance , the duty of a local police authority to afford adequate protection to A and his property ; |
| 2 | Where A makes a promise to B in consideration of B doing or promising to do something which he is already bound to do under a contract with A ; |
| 3 | Where A makes a promise to B in consideration of B doing or promising to do something which he is already bound to do under a contract with C. |
| 4 | In our opinion , in all three cases , a promise made by A to B in consideration of B doing or promising to do something which he is already bound to do should be enforced by the law , provided that in other respects such as legality and compatibility with public policy it is free from objection ; thus a promise in return for an agreement by a police authority to give precisely the amount of protection it was by law bound to give and no more should be unenforceable as being against public policy . |
| 5 | ‘ If a person pays money , which he is not bound to pay , under the compulsion of urgent and pressing necessity or of seizure , actual or threatened , of his goods he can recover it as money had and received . |
| 6 | If a person pays money , which he is not bound to pay , under the compulsion of urgent and pressing necessity or of seizure , actual or threatened , of his goods he can recover it as money had and received . |
| 7 | An arrangement whereby a limited partner invests a capital sum in the business which he is not permitted to withdraw until dissolution of the partnership ( which will not automatically occur on death or bankruptcy etc ) and which represents his maximum liability in respect of the firm 's debts and obligations , who is given a profit share but who is excluded from the management of the firm , is doubtless seen as too restrictive . |
| 8 | Anything the former Open and US Open champion achieves on the US circuit will surely reflect on the European Tour which he is also pledged to support and which continues to flourish . |
| 9 | So says theatrical director Sam Wanamaker of Shakespeare 's Globe Theatre , which he is now trying to reconstruct on the south side of the Thames in London . |
| 10 | A planning application to burn human clinical waste has been refused , but the man who runs the crematorium says it 's no different to burning animal waste , which he 's already allowed to do . |
| 11 | I told him he is not trying to get fit in time . |
| 12 | He was a ‘ chest case ’ for years and when I look back at the photographs of him he 's always trying to look normal but actually his face is pained from trying to breathe . |
| 13 | We all know he still fancies her he 's just trying to , you know keep it he 's just trying to forget it and try and act as normal as possible with her and hopefully things will get back to be back to what , what they were . |
| 14 | As Wilfred Owen moves into the second stanza he takes on the bigger issue of what he is really trying to say . |