Example sentences of "[vb past] he [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Knowing of Fothergill 's interest in natural history generally , Collinson invited him to breakfast at Mill Hill and showed him a diversity of William 's drawings .
2 What did bother him was that Graham used him to get at Barak .
3 ( 218b ) She allowed him to stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same .
4 Early in the 1630s Calvert announced his conversion to Catholicism and , though Charles I valued his services and asked him to stay at court , he decided it could only cause trouble if he did so .
5 And Sporting looked down and out when the irrepressible Gavin Peacock struck twice on half-time to show just what a coup it was when Keegan persuaded him to stay at Newcastle .
6 This time Turenne forced him to battle at Sasbach but was struck by one of the first shots fired .
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