Example sentences of "[conj] offer him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How would he manage if someone were to hand him a cup of coffee , or to offer him a biscuit ? |
| 2 | Once in the Essoldo Cinema a lad had moved away when he 'd done no more than offer him a piece of chocolate in the darkness . |
| 3 | Bolt Head , the gangster who financed and masterminded both the Robocranker project and the computer generated hologram , meets the Robocranker after his defeat and offers him a new body in return for operating one of his machines … |
| 4 | Menzies looked at him in astonishment , then took his flask from his hip pocket and offered him a dram . |
| 5 | Porter was carrying a large floppy-covered book ; she went straight up to an African writer , N'dosi , showed him the book , held open , and offered him a biro . |
| 6 | When wandering over the hills we met a shepherd , exchanged courtesies , and offered him a glass . |
| 7 | Joe had met up with Benny again on one of his rare trips to his old haunts and offered him a job , which Benny was glad to accept . |
| 8 | ABC TV wanted Newman to bring these same qualities to England , and offered him a post in control of their series Armchair Theatre . |
| 9 | Robert arrived then and my mother let him in and offered him a drink . |
| 10 | Crossing to the bed , she put a hand behind Lucien 's head , raised it , and offered him a few sips of water from a rough ceramic bowl . |
| 11 | Schellenberg leaned across the desk and offered him a cigarette . |
| 12 | Kopyion poured him a drink of wine and offered him a date . |
| 13 | He was confronted , in fact , by a farm labourer , who helped him into his small cottage and offered him a cup of tea . |
| 14 | Related to him , worried him , and offered him a solution , yes . |
| 15 | Big Lou hired John Surtees and offered him the whole of my £27,000 budget for drivers , leaving nothing for Jackie Oliver . |
| 16 | Gerald Baker , a Mandan-Hidatsa Indian who is the park ranger at Fort Union Trading Post in North Dakota , once the ‘ Times Square of the plains ’ , taught Mr Frazier how to use a double-bladed throwing axe and offered him the honour of joining him in a ceremonial sweat bath . |
| 17 | When Gilroy explained the commercial necessities of having to recast , and offered him the job of understudy and assistant stage manager , he stormed out of the theatre in a rage . |
| 18 | ‘ I also found these , ’ I said , and offered him the handful of cartridge cases . |
| 19 | Election and investiture had been accomplished in a confused way when the king nominated him and offered him the pastoral staff , round which the bishops pressed Anselm 's resisting fingers . |
| 20 | Reaching the end of the line , he danced over to where Mait sat in the sedan chair , and offered him the strange object . |
| 21 | Walter is seen to be best in the care of his parents because they protect him and offer him a barrier against the outside world . |
| 22 | ‘ If Selwyn intends to go to the Colonel 's this afternoon , I could say I had to go that way myself and offer him a lift on the motorbike . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ At the time we were very short on quick bowling , and decided to take a real gamble and offer him a place on our staff . |
| 24 | Fleury faltered backwards as the sepoy advanced , still making as if to offer him the sabre . |
| 25 | This was a feeling he sometimes had , when he pictured his friends as ‘ stationed ’ , like auspicious stars , close to him , protecting him , and offering him the privilege and pleasure of performing , in their respect , good deeds . |
| 26 | Apart from indicating the couch and offering him the wine she had done no more than sit watching him , occasionally rubbing a deep scratch on her arm . |
| 27 | Paul opens the door , to be confronted by a bespectacled American doing a poor impersonation of Chuck D. Four Eyes is pursing his lips , pointing a finger at Merton while offering him a mock high five . |
| 28 | The Encomiast alleges that Swegen Forkbeard took his elder son Cnut on the conquest of England , leaving Harald , the younger , in Denmark , and that after Swegen 's death Cnut returned and asked Harald to divide it between them , while offering him the eventual choice of Denmark or England if he would assist in subjugating the latter ; but Harald refused both requests and , after jointly bringing their mother back from among the Slavs , Cnut sailed for England alone . |