Example sentences of "he to join [pron] " in BNC.

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1 His eyes met those of Anthea Darnell for a moment , but deliberately slid away before she could invite him to join her group .
2 He spent his nights with Taheb , but these days he had begun to notice the glances the servants gave him , and made excuses when she wanted him to join her dinner guests .
3 For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion .
4 In 1891 she was briefly engaged to Charles Morrison , a Scottish missionary teacher at Duke Town eighteen years her junior , but when the Mission Board refused to allow him to join her in Okoyong , the relationship was broken off .
5 Despair choked her as she waited tensely for him to join her .
6 Working for ICI enabled him to join their club at Norton Hall where a single croquet lawn has been in existence and played on at least since the end of the 1939–45 War .
7 My respects to the captain and ask him to join me for breakfast at , say , eight-thirty .
8 I invite him to join me in welcoming this magnificent project , which will do so much for Wales .
9 Importance of contacts : Sir Patrick is quite happy with the thought that one of BP 's intentions in inviting him to join its board must have been to gain access to his little black book .
10 Immediately they invited him to join them , singing in their slightly squeaky voices of the charms and luxury of their lifestyle .
11 Hard luck yarns come crawling out of doorways to tug at his sleeve , tall tales sit slumped over coffee in badly lit diners waiting for him to join them .
12 Presumably on the basis that it could not involve James , she had asked him to join them for supper .
13 In October Mozart 's English friends tried to persuade him to join them in England the following spring .
14 He too was small , and inclined to be timid , and Hazel and Fiver had spent the greater part of their last evening in the warren in persuading him to join them .
15 Minton , guessing correctly that whilst in the West Country Norman would revisit the family with whom he was evacuated during the war , sent a wire asking him to join them .
16 Salisbury 's son-in-law , had declared for Parliament , and this again may have encouraged him to join them .
17 It had been agreed that Mary-Claude and the children would make their way independently to Spain , and wait for him to join them there .
18 " One must be kind , " she said apologetically , when she saw him waiting and called over to him to join them .
19 In Gregory 's account , Chlodomer , before setting off to Vézeronce , asked his half-brother , Theuderic , to accompany him , and the latter agreed ; but when Childebert and Chlothar asked him to join them at the time of their later campaign against the Burgundian kingdom , he refused .
20 A shirtsleeved Hawkins beckoned him to join himself and Montgomery at the breakfast table .
21 He looked so miserable I decided to cheer him up by inviting him to join our little game , and started throwing handfuls of water over him .
22 The lad caught Drifter and brought him to join us .
23 Tell him to join us in the admiral 's cabin at once . ’
24 Reinhardt at once invited him to join his Viennese theatre company , and within a few seasons Henreid had become one of its leading players .
25 His poems so impressed Thomas Gee , the owner and editor of the influential weekly Baner ac Amserau Cymru ( Banner and Times of Wales ) that he invited him to join his staff as a trainee journalist .
26 John Raby would like to join the shoot on 15th , mainly to talk to Tom H. Please let either me or him know if there are good or bad times for him to join you .
27 You were — not expecting him to join you ? ’
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