Example sentences of "offer [noun prp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had offered George the idea of trying to leave Person Y out altogether but George hat been firm : the Secret Service would spot any gaps . |
| 2 | Paul offers Bill the window seat . |
| 3 | After being found not guilty , a member of the jury called Mrs Aimsley offered Imamu the chance to live with her and her family in Brooklyn . |
| 4 | Chico offered Rex the kind of comforting smile Rex had offered him the night before . |
| 5 | Kohler said : ‘ I offered David the chance to come in with me in a partnership but unfortunately he could n't come up with the necessary amount . ’ |
| 6 | She offered Simon the drawstrings round the top of the basque . |
| 7 | This was why Yeltsin offered Rutskoi the post of vice president of the Russian Federation in 1991 . |
| 8 | Things came to a head in March 1962 when Sinatra offered Kennedy the use of his Palm Springs home . |
| 9 | I offered Benn the chance to fight me in September and he turned me down in favour of fighting Mauro Galvano in Italy . |
| 10 | Thus the retirement of Brennan , the Court 's leading liberal , offered Bush the opportunity of making an appointment which would ensure the creation of an absolute and dependable conservative majority . |
| 11 | Nubenehem offered Huy the jar but he waved it away . |
| 12 | Editor Malcolm Barker agreed to overlook the qualification requirement and offered Clayton the job . |
| 13 | Walton describes a dramatic scene at Wilton , the seat of the head of the Herbert family , the Earl of Pembroke , when the King and court were there : the Earl offered George the presentation to the living of Bemerton nearby ; his expressions of unworthiness to undertake a cure of souls were peremptorily overruled as sinful by Bishop Laud ; a tailor was summoned to make his canonical clothes , and he was ordained priest and inducted as Vicar of Bemerton next day . |
| 14 | Since nobody else had been found , Hayling offered Thornton the Chairmanship , but the executive attached two humiliating conditions . |
| 15 | A Convention , similar to that in England , which met in Edinburgh on 14 March 1689 , eventually decided to offer William the throne , though many Scots , especially the chieftains in the Highlands where the old religion remained strong , still regarded James II as their king , and others , not necessarily Catholic , saw in the dispossessed Stuarts the best hope of regaining Scotland 's lost independence . |
| 16 | But Walahfrid 's most earnest request was for patronage ; and Judith had enough political sense ( a clever critic was the very man to disarm ) and sympathy for a fellow-provincial to offer Walahfrid the post of tutor to Charles . |
| 17 | As the time approached for me to concentrate on my matriculation , I decided to offer Charlie the opportunity to buy out my share of the partnership and even arranged for a qualified accountant to replace me in order that they could take over the book-keeping . |
| 18 | ‘ I did not offer Dustin the role as insurance for American release , ’ insisted Germi . |
| 19 | The concept of the DEA , conceived , according to legend , by Wilson and his deputy , George Brown , in the back of a taxi on the short journey between the St Ermin 's Hotel and the House of Commons ( a legend Wilson has demolished , though on that journey he did offer Brown the job of running the DEA ) had scarcely received the attention it deserved during Labour 's preparation for power . |
| 20 | President Clinton has promised to present Yeltsin with ‘ an aggressive and quite specific plan ’ when the two men meet at the beginning of April ; the Group of Seven leading industrial nations is discussing ways to help ; and yesterday the EC Commission floated the idea of offering Russia the prospect of greater trade access when its political and economic circumstances allow . |
| 21 | Today Swindon Town threw the club a possible life-line , offering Aldershot the County Ground for their match against York City this Friday . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you seriously expect us to forgive and forget the inhumanity of the poll tax ? ’ demanded one of the 500 , offering Major the chance to say ‘ Sorry ’ . |