Example sentences of "invite he [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the New Contemporaries Exhibition in 1961 he and his wife bought Hockney 's Doll Boy for £40 and invited him round to tea — ‘ black hair , crew-cut , frightfully shy , I arrived late . |
| 2 | Sir Kenneth invited him round for tea and by the time he had left Andrews had been given the huge task of designing a fulllength ballet involving set changes and 300 costumes . |
| 3 | Probably because it was a way of roping him in for the future , Malcolm invited him down to a few rehearsals . |
| 4 | In the mid-Eighties the Jockey Club invited him down to London to deliver a gentle reminder . |
| 5 | A boss who was expecting a quiet birthday with his family at home was taken completely by surprise when his highly desirable secretary invited him back to her home for a drink after work . |
| 6 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
| 7 | She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea . |
| 8 | You invited him in for a glass of sherry to ask him if you could borrow his bicycle , and I came too . ’ |
| 9 | Frank is now 79 and we invited him out of retirement to skipper another tug and remember the heyday of the canals . |
| 10 | They had stood talking for quite some time , each of them perhaps slightly the worse for wear , and then she had invited him up to her North Oxford home for a night-cap . |
| 11 | Iain had invited him over for a meal . |
| 12 | Harry was able to fit in only two further meetings with Alice — one when she had taken him to see the very impressive new branch of the Maison Verveine , and the other when she had invited him back to the flat to meet Jules . |
| 13 | If Daddy was home , she 'd invite him in for a coffee and a clean-up . |
| 14 | Blanche told the press officer to invite him round for an ‘ off the record ’ briefing . |
| 15 | She knew better than to invite him back to Water Gypsy for a coffee . |
| 16 | Now if there should be a hole , or a thin place , inviting him through into the plenteous cover of the orchard , and the solitary shed in its far corner … |
| 17 | You write to an imaginary friend , you 're inviting him down for the summer holidays and you say all that , all about the sort of things that you 're planning to do with them , make it up |
| 18 | Yesterday he told the court Kim threatened him with the knife after inviting him back to her flat . |
| 19 | I knew he would n't want me to be pushy and , hard though it was , I decided to wait until the end of the week and then invite him round for dinner . |
| 20 | Heseltine needs Thatcher to do the decent thing and step down this summer , or invite him back into the cabinet . |