Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [art] [noun] " 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 | In 1923 R. W. Chapman [ q.v. ] invited him to revise the edition by G. Birkbeck Hill [ q.v. ] of James Boswell [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | In 1965 von Karajan spotted his talent and invited him to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic at his Salzburg Festival . |
| 6 | Minton invited him to stay the night , warning him that there was only one bed which they would have to share . |
| 7 | They invited him to have a go . |
| 8 | On 12 October 1974 an industrial friend at Unilever invited him to share the company 's box at Covent Garden to see an opera . |
| 9 | On the second occasion the wife of his landlord caught him thumping the side of the machine with his fist . |
| 10 | In July he was in a nursing home where Rupert Hart-Davis found him reading a detective story and studying a Penguin book of crossword puzzles — he was " in excellent spirits but his breathing was bad " . |
| 11 | 1926–27 found him hawking a play round London offices with no potential takers . |
| 12 | I found him trying the window . ’ |
| 13 | She let him suffer a bit longer , then said : ‘ You and Sabine had a row , I heard it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 17 | She thinks he died because she let him wear the chain . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And she let him turn the key and open the door . |
| 20 | Pion helped him drag the pot towards the hatch . |
| 21 | I remember before he became Prime Minister he was in charge of the Conservative re-think where I helped him do a lot of that work and I think he enjoyed that very much . |
| 22 | She got out , pulling up the hood of her waterproof , and helped him to carry the crates up the drive . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He was only interested in making recordings and he had a legal base in Switzerland , which also helped him avoid a lot of problems . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | I helped him put the frame back . |
| 28 | Lorton helped him push the piano away from the wall . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He really wants the mud to show his best , but I have to say that this ground helped him get the trip . ’ |