Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Manager W H Good , recognised the potential that George possessed and invited him to join the Company as an apprentice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In 1923 R. W. Chapman [ q.v. ] invited him to revise the edition by G. Birkbeck Hill [ q.v. ] of James Boswell [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | In 1965 von Karajan spotted his talent and invited him to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic at his Salzburg Festival . |
| 5 | Minton invited him to stay the night , warning him that there was only one bed which they would have to share . |
| 6 | On 12 October 1974 an industrial friend at Unilever invited him to share the company 's box at Covent Garden to see an opera . |
| 7 | On the second occasion the wife of his landlord caught him thumping the side of the machine with his fist . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I found him trying the window . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She thinks he died because she let him wear the chain . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And she let him turn the key and open the door . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Pion helped him drag the pot towards the hatch . |
| 18 | ‘ Never leave home without one , ’ she said with a grim laugh , and helped him drag the unconscious man on to the floor . |
| 19 | She got out , pulling up the hood of her waterproof , and helped him to carry the crates up the drive . |
| 20 | Len Vickery finished third after carding a score of 68a round which helped him secure the past captain 's cup . |
| 21 | The thought of a hot lasagne at home cheered him up and helped him ignore the throb of a headache that had begun during the drive up to Kentish Town . |
| 22 | The nomination helped him avoid the feuds between Francis Clifford , fourth Earl of Cumberland , and Lord William Howard ( 1563–1640 , q.v. ) , and signalled that he was ‘ tied to none in dependancie ’ . |
| 23 | I helped him pull the two long wicker chairs from the far end of the terrace . |
| 24 | The positive attributes of Piggy stressed were his mature attitude , good scientific understanding , which helped him to dismiss the beast quickly , and clear head ( which became very important towards the end of the book ) . |
| 25 | I helped him put the frame back . |
| 26 | She helped him push the motorbike combination over the cliffs into the sea , and drop the two dead men down a deep narrow crevice where they were n't likely to be discovered . |
| 27 | Lorton helped him push the piano away from the wall . |
| 28 | He really wants the mud to show his best , but I have to say that this ground helped him get the trip . ’ |
| 29 | The identity of the person who abandoned the Zodiac dinghy and therefore presumably planted the bombs has never been discovered but from the descriptions it seems fairly certain it was Bartelo from the Ouvéa , while the man who helped him get the dinghy into the water was Mafart . |
| 30 | Robert Dodsley was encouraged by Daniel Defoe and by Pope whose gift of £100 helped him to enter the book-trade . |