Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dismissed him to silence with a wave of a narrow , fleshless arm . |
| 2 | Following BILL HICKS ' recent ‘ it does n't matter who you vote for , the government always gets it ’ rant against the American presidential campaign in these pages , we invited him to sit in a room on election night with STEPHEN DALTON and explain why he 's mellowed to the idea of Clinton |
| 3 | he continued to teach at Chelsea School of Art , and has also taught at the Royal Academy Schools since 1975 when Peter Greenham invited him to teach in the Life Room . |
| 4 | One day she rashly invited him to stay for a weekend . |
| 5 | Friends invited him to apply for the Readership in Geometry at Gresham 's College , and a wealthy London merchant offered him £10,000 to take his daughter in marriage . |
| 6 | He invited him to come into the cottage out of the wet . |
| 7 | And he invited him to come to the Mayday parade to see for himself . |
| 8 | But if I was going to have to disillusion the boy , I thought it kinder to do it personally than by letter , and I invited him to come to the studios to see the programme and have a drink . |
| 9 | ‘ They went out looking for him and reported him missing to the police at 3.30am . |
| 10 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 11 | Beryl caught him looking at a painting hanging above the mantelpiece , a portrait of a middle-aged woman of exceptional beauty . |
| 12 | He had to report to the headmaster at four o'clock , and was taken there by force by Foggerty who caught him racing for the school gates when the bell went . |
| 13 | Paul looks better , I seen him rushing down the road at great speed to catch the train , not looking as white as he was a few months ago . |
| 14 | Erm I went in the mill to get some wood and noticed this young man and , I think I told you , I found him smoking in the , in the Porsche . |
| 15 | They found him slumped against the steering wheel |
| 16 | We found him huddled on the floor of a makeshift hospital in Bardera . |
| 17 | In the morning Tom found him huddled under the bed . |
| 18 | When Tallis went quickly to the long-house , where Wynne-Jones had gone for extra safety , she found him huddled in a corner , shaking violently , his body wrapped in skins and his bird-feather cloak . |
| 19 | She opened the door , and found him huddled in an overcoat , hands deep in pockets , a red scarf thrown carelessly around his neck . |
| 20 | 1966 found him guesting with the amazing Captain Beefheart on The Magic Band 's first album of psychotic psychedelic blues , ‘ Safe As Milk ’ . |
| 21 | We found him seated on a particularly high section of wall sketching the decoration of an inner chamber , and when I climbed up beside him I noticed his vantage point gave him a clear view of the Toyota . |
| 22 | Years later , in exile , his former tutor , Augustin Filon , found him leaning against a window of the house in Chislehurst and asked him what he was looking at . |
| 23 | The postman eventually found him canvassing on the High Row and handed over the State secrets there and then ‘ I was very impressed , ’ says Fallon . |
| 24 | The next morning they found him perched in a tree . |
| 25 | The workhouse master was called to Connolly 's cell and found him lying on the floor . |
| 26 | She found him lying in a pool of blood in his cot . |
| 27 | Christine called out to him and found him crying with the bottle of poisonous carbolic acid still in his hands . |
| 28 | On the other hand the Police Inspector of the district found him standing with a bunch of yellow flowers in his hand . |
| 29 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
| 30 | There was one terrible day when she came into his surgery and found him sitting beside the gramophone playing Soldiers of the Queen with tears pouring down his face . |