Example sentences of "[vb base] offered [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.

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1 We 've offered him a hostel — ’ she turned to me again , away from the dog — ‘ with a warden in charge , very suitable in his sort of case .
2 Now instead they 've offered him a new one year contract .
3 We 've offered him the best contract we could give him
4 Sometimes er when especially the the er older element have been so delighted that we 've offered them an opportunity because everybody else has said they 're too old and after all this they 're getting really excited want to come and then they look so glum in the photographs
5 ‘ They have offered me no protection and told me bluntly if I do n't like the job I can quit . ’
6 ‘ I believe you know that the Free Dutch government have offered me a job in their intelligence service .
7 They have offered me a bodyguard .
8 Northampton have been so suitably impressed by Ross 's abilities that they have offered him the coaching job for the next two seasons , a post that he has accepted .
9 ‘ We have offered him the chance of coming here as chief executive — but also the opportunity to buy the club .
10 TV producers Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason have offered them a high-security estate , close to Beverly Hills .
11 I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt .
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