Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had first met her in 1938 , when she invited him to give a reading at the Student Movement House of which she was Warden . |
| 2 | General Manager W H Good , recognised the potential that George possessed and invited him to join the Company as an apprentice . |
| 3 | Half-way through the interview I reminded him of his claim , pulled out a sheet of paper on which I had written three true statements and three false ones , and putting it face down on the table , invited him to use the pendulum to indicate the correct answers . |
| 4 | MIKE RAFTER has been the white knight for Bristol Saracens , the Gloucestershire Division Two club , who invited him to halt a rapid downhill slide two years ago . |
| 5 | In 1923 R. W. Chapman [ q.v. ] invited him to revise the edition by G. Birkbeck Hill [ q.v. ] of James Boswell [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | In 1965 von Karajan spotted his talent and invited him to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic at his Salzburg Festival . |
| 7 | Minton invited him to stay the night , warning him that there was only one bed which they would have to share . |
| 8 | They invited him to have a go . |
| 9 | During his years in London Rambush expanded his knowledge into the field of chemical processing , continuing his studies at Battersea Polytechnic under Professor J. W. Hinchley , who invited him to become a founding member of the Institution of Chemical Engineers in 1922 . |
| 10 | On 12 October 1974 an industrial friend at Unilever invited him to share the company 's box at Covent Garden to see an opera . |
| 11 | When Tom Webster drew him wearing a knee-length sweater , he ensured that , thereafter , all his sweaters were oversized . |
| 12 | On the second occasion the wife of his landlord caught him thumping the side of the machine with his fist . |
| 13 | In July he was in a nursing home where Rupert Hart-Davis found him reading a detective story and studying a Penguin book of crossword puzzles — he was " in excellent spirits but his breathing was bad " . |
| 14 | Nothing became more important than whether the President had added his approval to this ‘ very strange ’ piece of paper , as Poindexter called it : a memorandum Poindexter said he had never seen before , and which Thompson found him reading the next morning over breakfast . |
| 15 | 1926–27 found him hawking a play round London offices with no potential takers . |
| 16 | I found him trying the window . ’ |
| 17 | But when Patrick found him scoffing a large tea in the Royalbion marquee that was not the reason for his jubilation . |
| 18 | She let him suffer a bit longer , then said : ‘ You and Sabine had a row , I heard it . |
| 19 | I 'm going to Councillor Lines here who 's a Conservative Councillor , hang on Theresa , we have a Conservative Councillor let him answer the question . |
| 20 | She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry and I daresay she let him feel the difference been them . |
| 21 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 22 | She thinks he died because she let him wear the chain . |
| 23 | he said I 'm properly on the spot , so he , so the woman volunteered , she said well can I help you , I 've got my fortnight 's rent money here , so she let him have the rent money . |
| 24 | Selling was more painful than being sold , a variant of this hurts me more than it hurts you and a comic resourcefulness worthy of Falstaff in his ‘ let him kill the next Percy himself ’ vein . |
| 25 | And she let him turn the key and open the door . |
| 26 | Wordsworth concludes The Prelude with tributes to his sister Dorothy , and to S. T. Coleridge , both of whom , in their different ways , helped him to resolve the personal crisis into which the events of the 1790s had led him , and I have given a short biography of each . |
| 27 | Pion helped him drag the pot towards the hatch . |
| 28 | ‘ Never leave home without one , ’ she said with a grim laugh , and helped him drag the unconscious man on to the floor . |
| 29 | I remember before he became Prime Minister he was in charge of the Conservative re-think where I helped him do a lot of that work and I think he enjoyed that very much . |
| 30 | She got out , pulling up the hood of her waterproof , and helped him to carry the crates up the drive . |