Example sentences of "[vb past] he in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I invited him in . |
| 2 | She stopped singing when he knocked on the door , but he had to wait and knock a second time before she invited him in . |
| 3 | The boys were at school and the farmer cordially invited him in . |
| 4 | But when this stranger knocked , in a howling gale , with his wet hat and cloak pouring rainwater and his smiling mouth , my brother invited him in eagerly , and gave him meat and wine , and a bed for the night , and sang with him , and played cards , and sat by the fire , talking of the wide world and its adventures . |
| 5 | Dad invited him in and I followed . |
| 6 | When Hayling invited him in , Pilger listened to the Sunday Guardian versus left-wing Mail on Sunday argument . |
| 7 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
| 8 | She invited him in , pulled at her hair , relocked the door and followed him into the living room . |
| 9 | I invited him in and introduced him to my wife . |
| 10 | She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea . |
| 11 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 12 | For Calatin 's soul to be rescued , one of the three travellers must lose his soul in return , and for the Lad to take the soul , it must be one of the Mortals who invited him in . |
| 13 | He looked ghastly , she thought , as she invited him in . |
| 14 | Perhaps he 'd come to tell her he 'd changed his mind about his decision that she was to be his ‘ girlfriend ’ until Travis was over her , she mused , and , since courtesy cost nothing , she invited him in . |
| 15 | ‘ Mr Stewart invited him in so he must have been expecting him ’ said Mrs Donnelly . |
| 16 | ‘ My husband put his mask on and we plugged him in and the salesmen just kept shuffling papers . ’ |
| 17 | Immediately the mud sucked him in up to his ankles . |
| 18 | Only a deeper silence that sucked him in . |
| 19 | His arms had sunk in and he was twisting around , thrashing his head to keep it away from the wall — but it still sucked him in . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Hi , ’ she said as she let him in . |
| 21 | Nat let him in and went to fetch Tony who appeared wearing a pair of boxer shorts and a big smile . |
| 22 | It was 9 o'clock on 29 March , when Alice Cox let him in . |
| 23 | Morrissey let him in . |
| 24 | His mother tells an anecdote about his wanting to join the Cubs , the junior branch of Boy Scout movement , when he was only four or five : much below the permitted age , but he was so insistent that the Cubmaster let him in . |
| 25 | ‘ It looks as if Berowne let him in . |
| 26 | Flustered , she let him in . |
| 27 | Robert arrived then and my mother let him in and offered him a drink . |
| 28 | Rain let him in . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd like your help again , ’ he said when she let him in , ‘ assuming I 'm forgiven for abandoning you so brusquely yesterday evening . ’ |
| 30 | When at last he got there and knocked on the door with a sticky bottle of claret , a stranger let him in . |