Example sentences of "[vb past] he [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 12 | She got out , pulling up the hood of her waterproof , and helped him to carry the crates up the drive . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Yet if Richard Armstrong was writing according to a tried formula , concrete detail and well-conceived plots and the firm line of his character drawing helped him to achieve a special , moderate , even low- keyed reality in his books . |
| 15 | Robert Dodsley was encouraged by Daniel Defoe and by Pope whose gift of £100 helped him to enter the book-trade . |
| 16 | In his meetings with legislators Reagan 's personal qualities proved invaluable ; his relaxed and affable manner , his warmth , humour and charm all helped him to establish an unusual rapport with both Republicans and Democrats . |
| 17 | I would hope , obviously , that I wrote poems that could sometimes speak to the reader 's condition , and it would be too grandiose to say helped him to sort out his own feelings , but at least helped him to get a feeling of recognition and , if the poem is successful , you know , some kind of satisfaction that the feeling has been turned into that permanent form . |
| 18 | It was after this that Vere Barker , his rather grand agent , helped him to get the house in Hampstead and began to up his fees even for radio — for which he continued to work — poems , plays , schools radio , £10 , £12 , £20 sometimes : it all totted up . |
| 19 | What is sure is that Field , with his access to the latest English pianos at an early age , at no time played the harpsichord , and this , perhaps , above all helped him to develop the use of the pedal , which he would often sustain through changes of harmony , for the sake of the colouring of the phrase . |
| 20 | God and his Reason commanded him to subdue the Earth , i.e. improve it for the benefit of Life , and therein lay out something upon it that was his own , his labour . |
| 21 | It pleased him to see the shock his words delivered , and before David could protest , he lied , ‘ You 've been a help to me since my old bones went crook , and I 'll see you get your dues when the time comes . |
| 22 | I told him to lock the car . |
| 23 | Creed told him to take a right turn , down a narrow track that led towards the ocean . |
| 24 | Beck , who had been woken up by the Oscar-nominee , offered him a bed in the living room but told him to take a cab over . |
| 25 | ‘ I told him to take a break and have a rethink about the rest of the meeting . ’ |
| 26 | I told him to take a miss on the instruction part . |
| 27 | This was taken direct to Queen Yolande who had summoned Alexander and told him to take the King 's favourite horse , a white mare stabled at Kinghorn , down to the ferry . |
| 28 | COUNCIL chiefs wrote to Andrew Jones to say they were sorry his father had died … then told him to quit the family home . |
| 29 | No I just told him to revise the er the cycle of the engine . |
| 30 | That afternoon ( it was all on a Sunday ) he saw Chamberlain , and having directly asked him whether he agreed with the others and having received an affirmative answer , told him to call a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet for the following day at which he would say goodbye . |