Example sentences of "he [be] offer a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any manufacturing jeweller would honestly be able to take over a consignment of several hundred , especially if he were offered a 10 or 15 per cent discount on market price . |
| 2 | In Four Quartets , Eliot is providing a consummation of the European tradition , just as he is offering a coherent account of his own poetic development . |
| 3 | He really feels that he is offering a service , making inroads in the company hierarchy by offering fishing weekends , ones that run smoothly , that is . |
| 4 | Now Mr Cleave says he 's offering a reward to try and catch whoever 's responsible : |
| 5 | But he needs an edge , that 's why he 's offering a mortgage subsidy of £6,000 . |
| 6 | And now he was offered a professorship at another university . |
| 7 | He was offered a job on the production side , which would have entailed being a works superintendent . |
| 8 | Miller says now that he was offered a deal too , one of the most remarkable even in that committee 's history of deals . |
| 9 | Even lesser known men were received with open arms and , in some cases , cheque books : when the Rev. J. A. Macfadyen went to America to ‘ supply ’ the pulpit of Brooklyn 's Central Congregational Church he was offered a church in Chicago at the princely stipend of £2,000 — over £60,000 today — but he turned down the offer . |
| 10 | Cotton topped the bill at the London Coliseum in 1939 and was such a hit that he was offered a 16-week provincial tour , never realised because of the Second World War . |
| 11 | He was offered a Dupont chemical engineering scholarship and might have become a captain of industry somewhere in middle America , balding , bloated and with a houseful of his own children , anonymously having pursued a largely uneventful career in that worthy but slightly boring structure of management in a giant US conglomerate . |
| 12 | His luck continued as he was offered a trainee photographer job on the YEP when a senior photographer left to join a British national newspaper . |
| 13 | Straight after the Open he was offered a Rolls Royce to go out and celebrate his win . |
| 14 | In 1838 , he was offered a knighthood for his achievements in commerce but refused it , the second of old John Tennant 's sons to have done so . |
| 15 | Cottle was interested and a few weeks later was invited to London where he was offered a job in the Foreign office , doing something , somewhere . |
| 16 | While in the transit camp at Lowestoft he was offered a choice of hostels in Belfast , Leeds or London . |
| 17 | If he was offered a 16-week repayment period for instance , instead of the 15-week ones , with £1.99 instalments ( ‘ Gosh , that 's under £2 a week ! ’ ) , he might be frankly incredulous when told that the rate of charge , instead of 6.6 per cent with the over-£2 instalments , was now 44.4 per cent . |
| 18 | On my mother 's side , my grandfather and his family emigrated when he was offered a job as interpreter in the law courts . |
| 19 | He was invited to sit , he was offered a cigarette . |
| 20 | Demoted to a remote outpost , Howard Carter lived an impoverished life for several years until , in 1908 , he was offered a position by Lord Carnarvon as his head of excavations . |
| 21 | While on tour , he was offered a trial by Matt Busby 's Manchester United , but he found the training ‘ too difficult , too boring ’ . |
| 22 | The dealer left Sheppards of his own accord and against his manager' wishes , when he was offered a more lucrative Position elsewhere . |
| 23 | After lifting the European Formula Three crown in 1979 , he was offered a position alongside John Watson in the McLaren Formula One team for 1980 and he picked up a point on his debut in the Argentine Grand Prix . |
| 24 | Having been sent to investigate the Welsh National Opera , he was offered a job as their financial controller and subsequently established a world-beating team there with an old friend , the company 's general administrator Brian McMaster . |
| 25 | He was offered a good job on a ship called the and she 's purpose built for the North sea after |
| 26 | In 1919 he was offered a job by R. D. Blumenfeld [ q.v. ] , editor of the Daily Express . |
| 27 | Tiltman was educated at Charterhouse School , where at the age of thirteen he was offered a place at Oxford University which the family was unable to take up . |
| 28 | He was offered a knighthood in 1847 when Queen Victoria visited Cambridge , but he declined it and the honour which came to him was accompanied by little emolument . |
| 29 | He was offered a job in America with Ingersoll Rand but he would n't go . |
| 30 | And that 's this is er I think I 've already told you that he was offered a job with Ingersoll Rand which were the main er people that dealt with air and air products in the old days . |