Example sentences of "and offered [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mungo put the glass on the floor and offered her a biscuit , taking one himself . |
| 2 | Politely , Muriella hid her curiosity as Marion returned and offered her a horn cup . |
| 3 | Anyway , I stopped and offered her a lift . |
| 4 | He jumped up and offered her a chair . |
| 5 | What goes on here ? ’ 'I did n't ask you here and I do n't want to see you and I have nothing to say to you , ’ I said , showing her the door but , alas , she seemed to have no intention of going through it , so I capitulated rather too easily and offered her a drink from the mini bar . |
| 6 | He ran his hand up and down Molly 's spine as she sat beside him sipping her tea ‘ Have a drop of scrump , ’ he said quietly , and offered her the jar . |
| 7 | I stuck my thumb in the top , pulled it off , and offered her the bottle . |
| 8 | And then , as she sat watching the dancers , Molly thought of something which made her shiver , so that Ken Corduroy , noticing it , thought she felt cold in the dark garden and offered her the sweater which , like so many of the older guests , he wore knotted about his neck . |
| 9 | During this time he introduced himself to the Governor of New South Wales , who received me most kindly and offered me every assistance ’ , and paid his respects to Captain Philip Parker King , who had commanded his expedition with Lady Franklin to Recherche Bay the previous December , and who was now resident in Sydney as Port Officer and Superintendent of Government Vessels . |
| 10 | Once , this woman from an agency stopped me in the street and offered me a job and I travelled to Manchester to her agency , but they said : you 'd need to lose a few pounds , and get rid of this spot , and things like that ; and I thought : I ca n't be bothered . |
| 11 | Looking back upon that exit , I am reminded of a particularly nasty afternoon forty-two years ago , when as a young subaltern cowering in a ditch , the sole survivor of a shattered Churchill tank crawled from his steel tomb and offered me a cigarette . |
| 12 | He told me he was always on the lookout for new artistes , and offered me a position with his company . |
| 13 | A lady from Doncaster wrote and offered me a cooker , so Frank and his friends went to pick it up , overhaul it and bring it here . |
| 14 | Zak came up to me with Donna and offered me a lift back to the city in their bus , and at that exact moment I saw not Bill Baudelaire himself but someone who might go among the owners , where Tommy could n't . |
| 15 | Then Shadwell took me to Joe Allen 's and offered me a part in his next production , which would be Molière 's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme . |
| 16 | Some grain of self-preserving sense must have penetrated Rickie 's skull , for he suddenly dropped on to his heels and offered me a placatory grin . |
| 17 | All my dreams of playing for United to the end of my career — and I was on a seven- year contract — vanished when Ferguson called me into his office and offered me a cash pay-off to clear out and go and do something else with my life . |
| 18 | As Reid and I put down the cases we were carrying , Reid uncorked the bottle and offered me a shot of whisky . |
| 19 | A middle-aged man picked me up on the M4 near Swindon and offered me a lift to London , which was very convenient . |
| 20 | Monty looked down his glasses and offered me a few censorious words . |
| 21 | In typical style Shaheen had commissioned the QE2 to take a large party of people to the opening and offered me a cabin on her , but as I could not spare the time and was not sure that I would be entirely at home with my fellow passengers , I flew over in response to his invitation . |
| 22 | They took me down to the labour ward and offered me a sedative to help me sleep . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's alright for some ’ , they say , as if my fairy godmother has miraculously waved her magic wand and offered me a real life Martini advert on a plate . |
| 24 | ‘ I always walked the seven miles home , but that day the Old Man and Peter Revers came past in the car and offered me a lift . |
| 25 | She was obviously puzzled , but she invited me to sit down , and offered me a glass of sherry . |
| 26 | The innkeeper 's daughter came across to me , and offered me a choice of trout or venison . |
| 27 | The guard did not challenge us and we followed the faint trackway till Benjamin reined in and offered me a bulging wineskin . |
| 28 | He ripped a couple of ring pulls and offered me a luke-warm Fosters . |
| 29 | Malpass looked at it and offered me a cigarette and then a light . |
| 30 | ‘ He said ‘ Come in ’ and offered me a beer . |