Example sentences of "[noun sg] offered [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his words , he ‘ sold ’ himself to the Norwich City Football Club , persistently going to the training ground when aged 14 and 15 , until the club offered him an apprentice 's contract . |
| 2 | They would be more than willing to move as long as Leeds council offered them a suitable alternative with security of tenure ( this in effect means building them a brand new stadium from scratch ) . |
| 3 | Today a letter from the council offered them a home of their own . |
| 4 | Yolanda , 64 , said she was amazed when the city council offered them a two-bedroom house . |
| 5 | Yolanda , 64 , said she was amazed when the city council offered them a two-bedroom house . |
| 6 | Hall offered her a job , and there she stayed for two years working sixty to seventy hours a week and still commuting back to Blackheath , except on press night , which would go on all night , once a fortnight . |
| 7 | Not only did they drench her in a water fight when she did n't have a change of clothes and throw her on the muck heap , but on Friday evening offered her a roll filled with Doggie Dins , so she spent the rest of the night throwing up . |
| 8 | For a whole week they had worked closely together , sharing flasks of coffee and packets of cigarettes and Paula had grown to like the pixieish little man who by his very nature offered her no challenge — and no threat . |
| 9 | Holly offered her a sympathetic smile which was not acknowledged . |
| 10 | The Mandarin Group offered me a package I could n't refuse . ’ |
| 11 | As a great concession , the bursar offered us a room in a hostel for graduate students . |
| 12 | Eventually a noise abatement notice was served on them , and erm immediately after that the landlord offered them a hundred pounds to leave , and they left . |
| 13 | Blackwell had already been in touch with William Penn [ q.v. ] , when the Quaker proprietor offered him the deputy governorship of the infant colony of Pennsylvania , in a desperate attempt to reassert his authority over the resident Quaker oligarchy based in Philadelphia . |
| 14 | As a challenge the chief of the Poltava guberniia Department of Education offered him the directorship of this residential school for war-orphans . |
| 15 | Recently I taught a class of Zulus ( in English ) and afterwards , the head offered me a job on the staff . |
| 16 | It was the first time I had ever seen a live tennis match — Wimbledon has always been out of the question financially , and the Midland Bank tournament offered me the chance to see live international tennis at a reasonable price . |
| 17 | My lord offered him a place here in case those men cause any more trouble , but he refused . ’ |
| 18 | He was running short of petrol and that route offered him the chance to capture replenishments along the way . |
| 19 | Even though Common had returned to the team for the last month of the previous season and kept them up when relegation seemed inevitable , the club chairman offered him a free transfer providing he did n't claim the £250 benefit money promised to him earlier . |
| 20 | The moment I touched the ground I knew why — the excessive ( to me — but normal to Tiree residents ) wind whipped me and my heavily laden briefcase into the lounge where Peter McMillan , Manager of Scarinish Branch offered me the relative calm of his car . |
| 21 | The bald man offered me a cigarette . |
| 22 | We considered gas , electricity and oil , and natural gas offered us the best benefits , ’ said Mike MacCormack , Administrator at Dunster Castle . |
| 23 | He expanded this idea at his next job interview , and finally his obsession with debt paid off : the aid agency offered him a position . |
| 24 | My doctor offered me a course of anti-depressant tablets and by this time I felt my children were becoming immune to antibiotics . |
| 25 | There was a long silence , during which the maid offered her a muffin from under a silver dish . |
| 26 | A hand offered me a ball-point pen . |
| 27 | The careers officer offered him a job in a harp factory in Bromley ! ’ |
| 28 | He had spoken to his solicitor earlier , and the officer offered him the chance to see a solicitor , which was declined . |
| 29 | If Harrods had n't in this ridiculous way offered you a credit card , no crime would have been committed . |
| 30 | When they were alone , the Minister offered him a brandy . |