Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She dismissed him to silence with a wave of a narrow , fleshless arm . |
| 2 | Knowing of Fothergill 's interest in natural history generally , Collinson invited him to breakfast at Mill Hill and showed him a diversity of William 's drawings . |
| 3 | Following BILL HICKS ' recent ‘ it does n't matter who you vote for , the government always gets it ’ rant against the American presidential campaign in these pages , we invited him to sit in a room on election night with STEPHEN DALTON and explain why he 's mellowed to the idea of Clinton |
| 4 | He is no respecter of titles : when the Daily Express queried his ability , he sent a lemon to Lord Stevens , the paper 's proprietor and invited him to suck on it . |
| 5 | he continued to teach at Chelsea School of Art , and has also taught at the Royal Academy Schools since 1975 when Peter Greenham invited him to teach in the Life Room . |
| 6 | One day she rashly invited him to stay for a weekend . |
| 7 | He went home on the Saturday night of his third week with someone who invited him to stay for Sunday lunch . |
| 8 | A group of vengeful noblemen invited him to dine with them one evening , served him poisoned food and wine and then set about murdering him — a process that was anything but straightforward . |
| 9 | Friends invited him to apply for the Readership in Geometry at Gresham 's College , and a wealthy London merchant offered him £10,000 to take his daughter in marriage . |
| 10 | He invited him to come into the cottage out of the wet . |
| 11 | And he invited him to come to the Mayday parade to see for himself . |
| 12 | But if I was going to have to disillusion the boy , I thought it kinder to do it personally than by letter , and I invited him to come to the studios to see the programme and have a drink . |
| 13 | His knees between the insides of her thighs , she drew him sliding into her . |
| 14 | ‘ They went out looking for him and reported him missing to the police at 3.30am . |
| 15 | Officers found him face down in the undergrowth minutes after his wife reported him missing on Wednesday night . |
| 16 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 17 | No , whoever caught him hunting for more knew that there was more there to be found — knew it because he himself had come out as soon as he dared , to remove whatever was there to a place of greater safety . |
| 18 | Sometimes she caught him looking at her , but he never really kissed her and the vagueness of his attentions made her anxious and say bitter things she did n't mean . |
| 19 | From time to time she caught him looking at her , his expression unfathomable , and each time the tension in the cabin seemed to grow . |
| 20 | Beryl caught him looking at a painting hanging above the mantelpiece , a portrait of a middle-aged woman of exceptional beauty . |
| 21 | Several times she caught him looking at her unguardedly , and heat flared in his eyes , to be instantly banked as he brought it under control with his iron will . |
| 22 | He was not a man much given to talking , but there were times when she caught him glancing at her in a way that held its own silent eloquence . |
| 23 | He had to report to the headmaster at four o'clock , and was taken there by force by Foggerty who caught him racing for the school gates when the bell went . |
| 24 | Sometimes the Captain caught him staring at him fixedly , willing him to get the case under Instruction . |
| 25 | Paul looks better , I seen him rushing down the road at great speed to catch the train , not looking as white as he was a few months ago . |
| 26 | This emphasis seems intended to correct earlier approaches to Lam that found him influenced by Matisse , Picasso , Breton , and Miró , an exotic Third World modernist satellite rather than a major creative force . |
| 27 | Erm I went in the mill to get some wood and noticed this young man and , I think I told you , I found him smoking in the , in the Porsche . |
| 28 | I found him reflecting on this problem with his usual shrewdness . |
| 29 | She found him looking at her a little too intently and lowered her gaze . |
| 30 | Gulping down a breath , she lifted her lids — and found him looking at her . |