Example sentences of "[conj] invited [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He contacted her when he heard of her research into women 's self-defence and invited her to his surgery . |
| 2 | A friend in Joan 's office was active in the Womens ' Loyalist Action Association and invited her to one of its meetings . |
| 3 | A week later , however , when Branson walked into the shop close to the Virgin offices in Portobello Road where Joan worked , selling Victorian advertising ephemera , and invited her to lunch , she accepted . |
| 4 | Before long he recognised Eva 's ability and invited her to be vice president . |
| 5 | Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
| 6 | Self-taught , he worked as a shipping clerk in Madras until the mathematician George Hardy saw his work and invited him to England . |
| 7 | When I rang Robert Service and invited him to the hotel for a drink he accepted gladly and wanted to hear all about my flying visit to his old stamping grounds . |
| 8 | ( Jones , as everyone would have expected , welcomed his vanquished opponent on board with great courtesy , and invited him to his own wrecked cabin for a glass of wine . ) |
| 9 | They nodded and invited him to a meeting . |
| 10 | So it was that as March 1981 drew to a close , Branson telephoned Rodney Birbeck , the editor of Music Week — the trade ‘ Bible ’ of the British record industry — and invited him to lunch . |
| 11 | Rather than have him insinuate himself into the building later and perhaps annoy her neighbours , she capitulated and invited him to the flat . |
| 12 | In pursuit of diplomatic support , Baker met Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen at the UN in New York on Nov. 28 and invited him to Washington , effectively ending the diplomatic isolation of China by the USA in force since the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 13 | Bob Monkhouse , best known as a comedy writer and actor for television and radio , and playing his first straight acting role in the West End , as Buddy 's elder brother , Alan , spotted Crawford 's comedy potential and invited him to his home , where they spent an evening reading the play . |
| 14 | A dolphin caller would go into a dream where his spirit went out of his body and sought the dolphin folk in their home under the western horizon and invited them to a dance , with feasting , in the village . |
| 15 | Then Mum thanked them and said she would pay them later for their trouble and invited them to the funeral . |
| 16 | He contacted the South Africans who had been told they could n't meet a council delegation independently and invited them to a meeting in Darlington town hall . |
| 17 | Conservative group leader Coun Tony Richmond contacted the diplomats independently after Labour councillors refused to see them , and invited them to a meeting in Darlington Town Hall . |
| 18 | Richard played me their record and invited me to the end of recording party . |
| 19 | She had sent volunteers out to botanise , and invited me to coffee in the Harris Hotel . |
| 20 | I must have kept my end up successfully , though , for just before he left Dennis sought me out and invited me to dinner the following Friday . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , she came to my door and invited me to dinner . ’ |
| 22 | He saw the wisdom of this ploy and invited me to his next fight , when he lost his title . |
| 23 | He was a friend of a friend , and gave us a warm welcome and invited us to lunch . |