Example sentences of "[noun] offered [pers pn] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kathleen offered me the use of her office telephone and so , one morning , I settled down to make some enquiries . |
| 2 | Now it looked quite possible that she would n't need the services of an agency after all — that was , if Luke Travis offered her the job , and if she decided to accept . |
| 3 | Back in those Hard Times , funerals offered us the comfort of knowing that , however tough it was for me and thee , there was always somebody who had it worse . |
| 4 | One result of this difference of reference is that it is possible to construct sentences which will be analytic or contradictory on the one interpretation but not on the other : ( 11 ) Nikolai offered us the message decoded but it was not decoded when he offered it to us 4.2 One curious feature about these adjectives is that they somehow seem to modify not only the noun which they accompany but simultaneously the verb as well ; if this is a genuine observation it will be surprising on general grounds , since it would be decidedly abnormal in syntax for one element to simultaneously qualify two different items . |
| 5 | One paper , on the causes of climatic changes during geological history , caught the attention of geologists and Geikie offered him the post as manager of the new office in Edinburgh . |
| 6 | Blackwell had already been in touch with William Penn [ q.v. ] , when the Quaker proprietor offered him the deputy governorship of the infant colony of Pennsylvania , in a desperate attempt to reassert his authority over the resident Quaker oligarchy based in Philadelphia . |
| 7 | As a challenge the chief of the Poltava guberniia Department of Education offered him the directorship of this residential school for war-orphans . |
| 8 | But it was a surprise when W. E. Gladstone offered him the post of deputy whip , an offer which he decided to accept . |
| 9 | It was the first time I had ever seen a live tennis match — Wimbledon has always been out of the question financially , and the Midland Bank tournament offered me the chance to see live international tennis at a reasonable price . |
| 10 | He had been working at the Council depot as an attendant when Joe offered him the job , and he had been very pleased to make the change . |
| 11 | He was running short of petrol and that route offered him the chance to capture replenishments along the way . |
| 12 | Glyndebourne offered me the part on the record , but the fee was pitiful — £40 or something like that . |
| 13 | Columbia offered me the market price . ’ |
| 14 | He had spoken to his solicitor earlier , and the officer offered him the chance to see a solicitor , which was declined . |
| 15 | Tyndale was nervous , and , when Vaughan offered him the King 's promise of safety if he returned to England , he expressed his fear that the promise might be broken on the persuasion of the clergy , who would affirm that promises made with heretics need not be kept . |
| 16 | Sources told NME Moz offered them the support slot after being ‘ knocked out ’ by a recent performance . |
| 17 | She ran her own stable , near Newbury , Berkshire , until Yorkshire businessman Fred Brown offered her the ride on his horses just over two years ago . |
| 18 | Porter offered me the biro . |