Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 2 | It never was when she invited him to meet her at the flat ; she was keeping him and Stock out of each other 's way . |
| 3 | If you invited him to make one at a dinner-party , you expected him to talk intelligibly ; if he published a volume of poems you expected him to write the sort of thing that the average well-educated man could understand because it came within the orbit of his own experience . |
| 4 | On the evening before his body was found she had organised a baby-sitter to look after their two children and invited him to accompany her to a function at Dowman 's British Steel Club , but he had refused to go and instead went out alone . |
| 5 | I caught him watching me in the third . |
| 6 | Leonora whirled round , flushing as she found him watching her from the doorway . |
| 7 | I found him cursing her for the border . |
| 8 | She let him accompany her into the small lounge where the set was kept in segregation from the vocal and gregarious fishermen , and settle her in a comfortable chair , cheek by jowl with a single elderly lady , who seemed pleased to have company , and disposed to conversation . |
| 9 | It protested at once , so she let him carry her to the living-room . |
| 10 | She let him drown her in the deep water , too weak even to raise her hands to cling to him . |
| 11 | But she let him help her into a chair . |
| 12 | The good lady thought that he was shy , and constantly twitted him to bring him into the talk ; Paul hoped that she would get over it as the days passed , and this proved to be the case . |
| 13 | Inevitably , when he arrived home he found he had nothing but a blank sheet of photographic paper . |
| 14 | She forbade him to accompany her beyond the door and walked alone over the golden sand past the flower-beds to the gate . |
| 15 | I was impressed , then I noticed him clocking her in the mirror behind the bar . |
| 16 | I told him to meet me inside an isolated summer house . |
| 17 | so I told him to keep them on the back of that door . |
| 18 | Hashim Ciftci told the Today newspaper that he shot cameraman Nick della Casa and his assistant Charles Maxwell after they hired him to guide them on an expedition to film fighting between the Iraqi army and Kurdish rebels in the mountains of northern Iraq . |
| 19 | The two newspapers reporting this case both focused on his claim that sex taunts from his 56-year-old wife over his impotency provoked him to strangle her with a flex . |
| 20 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 21 | Forcing herself to assume a composure she was far from feeling , Gina allowed him to usher her from the small lobby behind the front door into a living-room of graceful proportions . |
| 22 | She took the cup of tea-bag Indian and allowed him to settle himself at the large deal table covered with music scores . |
| 23 | Miserably she allowed him to settle her in the taxi . |
| 24 | Numbly Rory allowed him to lead her to the dance floor , moving automatically into his arms as though she 'd always belonged there . |
| 25 | Rachel 's pulses thundered as she allowed him to lead her to the dance-floor beneath the flashing lights . |
| 26 | Rachel allowed him to lead her to the dance-floor , but his callous dismissal of the unfortunate Domino was symptomatic of the kind of man he was . |
| 27 | But still less did she want to make a scene or create any kind of curiosity amongst the people she had just left , so she allowed him to lead her from the room , saying , ‘ Yes , we needed to discuss those — er — charts , did n't we , Dr Russell ? ’ in case anyone was still listening . |
| 28 | She allowed him to corner her in the pantry . |
| 29 | Such a false position was not for her , nor for her was the taunt of cowardice , so she smiled and assented , and allowed him to drag her into the sparsest area of the room . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I felt dreadful about it , and one morning I went to see my godfather at the Admiralty and begged him to get me into the Navy . |