Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Manager W H Good , recognised the potential that George possessed and invited him to join the Company as an apprentice . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In 1923 R. W. Chapman [ q.v. ] invited him to revise the edition by G. Birkbeck Hill [ q.v. ] of James Boswell [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | In 1965 von Karajan spotted his talent and invited him to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic at his Salzburg Festival . |
| 5 | Minton invited him to stay the night , warning him that there was only one bed which they would have to share . |
| 6 | On 12 October 1974 an industrial friend at Unilever invited him to share the company 's box at Covent Garden to see an opera . |
| 7 | On the second occasion the wife of his landlord caught him thumping the side of the machine with his fist . |
| 8 | I found him trying the window . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She thinks he died because she let him wear the chain . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And she let him turn the key and open the door . |
| 14 | Pion helped him drag the pot towards the hatch . |
| 15 | She got out , pulling up the hood of her waterproof , and helped him to carry the crates up the drive . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | I helped him put the frame back . |
| 20 | Lorton helped him push the piano away from the wall . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He really wants the mud to show his best , but I have to say that this ground helped him get the trip . ’ |
| 23 | The identity of the person who abandoned the Zodiac dinghy and therefore presumably planted the bombs has never been discovered but from the descriptions it seems fairly certain it was Bartelo from the Ouvéa , while the man who helped him get the dinghy into the water was Mafart . |
| 24 | Robert Dodsley was encouraged by Daniel Defoe and by Pope whose gift of £100 helped him to enter the book-trade . |
| 25 | His mates laughed , and helped him tie the topknot . |
| 26 | ( 38 ) I helped him address the letters . |
| 27 | The reputation for energy and honesty which Truman gained from this work helped him win the nomination for the vice-presidency in the 1944 election , after more prominent candidates had cancelled each other out . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The officers guarding him stopped him reaching the governor just in time . |