Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He invited him to come into the cottage out of the wet . |
| 4 | And he invited him to come to the Mayday parade to see for himself . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ They went out looking for him and reported him missing to the police at 3.30am . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They found him slumped against the steering wheel |
| 12 | We found him huddled on the floor of a makeshift hospital in Bardera . |
| 13 | In the morning Tom found him huddled under the bed . |
| 14 | 1966 found him guesting with the amazing Captain Beefheart on The Magic Band 's first album of psychotic psychedelic blues , ‘ Safe As Milk ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The workhouse master was called to Connolly 's cell and found him lying on the floor . |
| 17 | Christine called out to him and found him crying with the bottle of poisonous carbolic acid still in his hands . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I found him sitting on the bench to the side of the house gazing out over Backyards . |
| 21 | When she got out of bed , she found him sitting on the top stair , listening to Dad and Mother downstairs in the kitchen , and crying . |
| 22 | He was that one , of course , and the night found him sitting in the back of a purring car being driven around the frosty streets of London in search of somebody to help him finish the story . |
| 23 | When they entered his rooms , in answer to his hearty ‘ Come in ! ’ they found him sitting in the broken armchair , surrounded by books , his feet comfortably supported by a small wooden stool . |
| 24 | Isay helped him dress for the banquet that evening , showing no resentment at having to double as valet as well as bodyguard . |
| 25 | But even though the fridge helped him acclimatise to the cold , the temperature of minus twenty degrees celcius was still a little on the warm-side ! |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
| 27 | That 's what stopped him getting to the top . |
| 28 | ‘ We were saying , ’ said Enid , without looking over her hefty lurex shoulder , ‘ that Ricky France-Lynch 's personality stopped him getting to the top . ’ |
| 29 | Not that this stopped him going through the hoops for photographers when Forest got Nigel Mansell down to their ground the other week . |
| 30 | Mrs Thatcher stopped him going into the ERM , and Treasury forecasters failed to spot the recession . |