Example sentences of "[vb past] offered [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She agreed eight o'clock when I spoke to her yesterday , after I 'd offered her every other hour of the day . |
| 2 | ‘ My disillusion deepened during 1969 , and by then Chapman had offered me a job . |
| 3 | ‘ I would have signed if they had offered me a few bob more . ’ |
| 4 | Ash had been in London for a programming interview with some big insurance company and had offered me a lift back home , or to Gallanach anyway , as I 'd exiled myself from Lochgair . |
| 5 | Freddie , to give him his due , had offered her a meal for no other reason than that he was hungry , Liza was attractive and her response to some of his occasional conversational gambits on the way home had been interesting and unusual . |
| 6 | Michael Levaton , owner of the Metropolitan modelling agency , slid into the seat next to her and took the plunge ; within minutes , he had offered her a contract . |
| 7 | Late at night she kept up her journal and wrote her column for J.D. , and on her last visit he had offered her a post on his editorial staff , a full-time one , when she had finished her East End stint , as he called it . |
| 8 | Was it love or simply gratitude because he had offered her a safe haven ? |
| 9 | The Doctor had offered her a journey to see some of the beautiful sights of the universe . |
| 10 | She had n't become a whore because she wanted to ; it was because the money of perverted old men had offered her an easy way out of poverty — those same old men who would clamour for the investigation to be dropped . |
| 11 | The moment Madame Mattli had offered her the job she had made up her mind . |
| 12 | He had offered her the front seat for the last leg , but she had turned it down . |
| 13 | It had belonged to a man called Flowers , and they had gone to Manchester just because he had offered them the flat . |
| 14 | Their initiative was thought to have been in response to an open letter published on Jan. 15 under the signatures of three former Presidents , the Archbishop of Bogotá , and the leader of the left-wing Patriotic Union Party ( UP ) , which had offered them the prospect of " society 's support … for less rigorous treatment " by the government if they released the estimated dozens of hostages they had seized over the previous two months and stopped drug trafficking . |
| 15 | Coleridge even felt some confidence that his writing could sustain them both in their new life : Cottle , in a further act of generosity , had offered him a guinea and a half for every one hundred lines of poetry he produced , and faithfully honoured the bargain in April of the following year when he published Poems on Various Subjects , Coleridge 's first major collection . |
| 16 | Nigel had invited his teacher 's attention and in turn she had offered him a chance to try to tell her what he meant by ‘ balance ’ . |
| 17 | The Metropolitan Company had offered him a reward for his efforts . |
| 18 | Miles and Juliet had offered him a lift to Pangbourne Station . |
| 19 | And when the man had arrived , Luke had offered him a glass of champagne and then shown him through to the kitchen and shut the door . |
| 20 | Islam had offered him a lot . |
| 21 | Van was the man to cultivate , said Morton — he had a finger in every secret service pie — and Van indeed had offered him a certain irascible encouragement . |
| 22 | I put a lot of Mario 's cool , his unflappable nature , his congeniality , down to America : to a sort of wide-eyed gratitude that life had offered him an opportunity to survive and become a star . |
| 23 | They had offered him the position of editor in chief with , apparently , more direct control over the content of the paper , but only if he came off the Board . |
| 24 | Instead of the Exchequer , Baldwin had offered him the embassy to Washington , which Chamberlain had rejected with anger . |
| 25 | In his place he put Austen Chamberlain , although a little more by accident than design , for Baldwin had offered him the choice between that and the India Office . |
| 26 | Chico offered Rex the kind of comforting smile Rex had offered him the night before . |
| 27 | The remedy could have been more appropriately applied if those prescribing it had offered us a clearer understanding of what a clause is and how far it may be similar to various other structures . |