Example sentences of "[was/were] offer a job " in BNC.

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1 You were offering a job , and I took it .
2 He was offered a job on the production side , which would have entailed being a works superintendent .
3 A year later she was offered a job with Rothmans to join their customer liaison department .
4 He was looking for female voices , he remembered Jakki , invited her to submit some tapes and — presto ! — she was offered a job in The Smoke .
5 After going to work in the Gulf states she was offered a job with the princesses .
6 Those who are not prepared to do so may find that their promotion 's blocked or they 're shunted into a backwater — one experienced insurance broker of my acquaintance , for instance , was offered a job in the stationery department !
7 He decided to leave when his wife , Dr Janet Cheetham , a biophysicist , was offered a job by Amgen , the US biotechnology company .
8 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 .
9 On my mother 's side , my grandfather and his family emigrated when he was offered a job as interpreter in the law courts .
10 However , after working in television research and for a translation company , two years ago I was offered a job in the USSR team of the East European section of Price Waterhouse .
11 When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it .
12 After a spell in teaching , she joined the Irish Times ; five years later , in 1973 , she was offered a job in the paper 's office in London , where she met her husband , writer Gordon Snell .
13 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 .
14 In December 1938 Burgess was offered a job in Section D of SIS ( Secret Intelligence Service ) , set up to investigate sabotage and propaganda in the event of war .
15 In 1919 he was offered a job by R. D. Blumenfeld [ q.v. ] , editor of the Daily Express .
16 Within a few months Peter , too , was offered a job , initially to help Bernard market home furnishing fabrics on a wholesale basis .
17 He was offered a job in America with Ingersoll Rand but he would n't go .
18 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 .
19 In middle age he was offered a job with the management of the factory and he took it .
20 She was offered a job at Guardian Royal Exchange in Watford .
21 She was offered a job in the government and she turned it down !
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