Example sentences of "offer him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Midland Amalgamated headhunted him for the MD 's job at Pringle 's they offered him a Rover 3500 Vanden Plas , but Vic stuck out for the Jaguar , a car normally reserved for divisional chairmen , and to his great satisfaction he had got one , even though it was n't quite new . |
| 2 | Coleridge even felt some confidence that his writing could sustain them both in their new life : Cottle , in a further act of generosity , had offered him a guinea and a half for every one hundred lines of poetry he produced , and faithfully honoured the bargain in April of the following year when he published Poems on Various Subjects , Coleridge 's first major collection . |
| 3 | We 've offered him a hostel — ’ she turned to me again , away from the dog — ‘ with a warden in charge , very suitable in his sort of case . |
| 4 | Nigel had invited his teacher 's attention and in turn she had offered him a chance to try to tell her what he meant by ‘ balance ’ . |
| 5 | The Metropolitan Company had offered him a reward for his efforts . |
| 6 | Have you offered him a job ? ’ |
| 7 | Miles and Juliet had offered him a lift to Pangbourne Station . |
| 8 | And when the man had arrived , Luke had offered him a glass of champagne and then shown him through to the kitchen and shut the door . |
| 9 | Now instead they 've offered him a new one year contract . |
| 10 | Islam had offered him a lot . |
| 11 | Van was the man to cultivate , said Morton — he had a finger in every secret service pie — and Van indeed had offered him a certain irascible encouragement . |
| 12 | Cummins has offered him a senior position with the company and the chance to spearhead its attempts to break into the East European engine market . |
| 13 | Northampton have been so suitably impressed by Ross 's abilities that they have offered him the coaching job for the next two seasons , a post that he has accepted . |
| 14 | ‘ We have offered him the chance of coming here as chief executive — but also the opportunity to buy the club . |
| 15 | They had offered him the position of editor in chief with , apparently , more direct control over the content of the paper , but only if he came off the Board . |
| 16 | Instead of the Exchequer , Baldwin had offered him the embassy to Washington , which Chamberlain had rejected with anger . |
| 17 | In his place he put Austen Chamberlain , although a little more by accident than design , for Baldwin had offered him the choice between that and the India Office . |
| 18 | Then Baldwin saw him again and told hint that were it not for his age and his health ( neither of which had greatly changed in the preceding forty-eight hours ) , he would have offered him the vacancy , but as it was it had better go to Eden . |
| 19 | Chico offered Rex the kind of comforting smile Rex had offered him the night before . |
| 20 | Our information is that Hitler 's offered him the throne . |
| 21 | We 've offered him the best contract we could give him |
| 22 | I put a lot of Mario 's cool , his unflappable nature , his congeniality , down to America : to a sort of wide-eyed gratitude that life had offered him an opportunity to survive and become a star . |
| 23 | To publish falsely , of an Irish priest , that he informed on members of the IRA is not defamatory : it may cause him to be executed by terrorists , but the law offers him no way of securing a correction . |
| 24 | The Proconsul offers him a last-minute reprieve , however , if he will repent and swear by the genius of Caesar . |
| 25 | Eric has a transfer which , on the face of it , offers him a greater opportunity of first-team football . ’ |
| 26 | Bolt Head , the gangster who financed and masterminded both the Robocranker project and the computer generated hologram , meets the Robocranker after his defeat and offers him a new body in return for operating one of his machines … |
| 27 | He succeeds in the game and the goldfish offers him a prize . |
| 28 | His employer offers him a rise of £2,500 but instead he wants to boost his pension by this amount . |
| 29 | The issues of repentance and forgiveness feature here also — Rodolpho , even at the last moment , is prepared to accept the blame for what Eddie has done and offers to kiss his hand , and Beatrice also offers him an earlier chance of redemption by asking him and Catherine to make friends and Catherine agrees — but Eddie refuses . |
| 30 | Vic Brown in John Schlesinger 's A Kind of Loving ( 1962 ) settles for telly-watching inanity within marriage , while Billy Liar in the same director 's 1963 film turns away from the girl who offers him the chance to fulfil his ambitions in London . |