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 ! |