Example sentences of "was offer the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Police Staff College shortly before I was offered the scholarship to university , I had listened as lists of degrees obtained by previous scholars were read out . |
| 2 | This is believed to be Eddy Shah , the media entrepreneur who has claimed he was offered the Edwards shares for £16m . |
| 3 | Three days later Haslam was being interviewed for a job at ICI and he was offered the chance to become a technical services engineer in the Nobel Division , an offer he snapped up immediately . |
| 4 | It was during his second year at Manchester that he was offered the West Indies captaincy for the visit by Pakistan , but decided that his studies had to come first ; he had a strong sense of predestination and apparently felt that the leadership would be his eventually . |
| 5 | When he returned from the tour of Australia , Worrell was offered the position of Warden at Irvine Hall , part of the University of the West Indies in Kingston . |
| 6 | Bruno Walter was there and afterwards I was offered the post of first kapellmeister ; but I had to say , frankly I am better off in Aachen . |
| 7 | Indeed , Berry was offered the Brooklyn pastorate after Beecher 's death but declined it . |
| 8 | When he was offered the Rangers job , he told his estranged wife that there was no way he would become a sterotypical manager ‘ working all hours and driving myself crazy ’ . |
| 9 | Thus , when Richard Baxter was offered the position of schoolmaster at Dudley , he accepted and was ordained by the Bishop of Worcester on Advent Sunday 1638 . |
| 10 | In the midst of the negotiations , Richard Baxter was offered the bishopric of Hereford by Charles , the offer being communicated via the Lord Chancellor . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , Cromwell was offered the crown subsequently , but he refused , possibly to adhere to his own convictions , but his only son , Richard , was not a strong person . |
| 12 | In 1984 , he was offered the directorship of the Marie Curie Institute in Paris — ‘ the greatest temptation of my life ’ . |
| 13 | While there was still the quota of run-of-the-mill assignments on the SMH , he quickly established himself and was offered the better jobs . |
| 14 | It was the month before my thirty-third birthday , and I was offered the appointment . |
| 15 | Michigan Department of Mental Health , in which an inmate was offered the choice between experimental surgery with the possibility of release and continued incarceration , and the Court held that consent could not be given by an involuntarily detained mental patient . |
| 16 | In February 1991 , he was offered the manager 's job at Birmingham City , an English Third Division club , who at the time were so down at heel they resembled an inveterate gambler staggering from one bad bet to another . |
| 17 | Brook Street Bureau sent Sue Hill to an interview for a job as a telesales clerk with a publishing company last autumn and , after months of rejections , she was offered the position . |
| 18 | Yesterday he was offered the chance to pull out of part of it and go home because of his domestic troubles . |
| 19 | He sailed through five interviews and was offered the job subject to two references . |
| 20 | He was offered the post of clerk to the Privy Council or of Ambassador to Savoy . |
| 21 | While waiting for his stats to be confirmed , he was offered the services of a barbie doll ‘ recreational secretary . ’ |
| 22 | Liz , 60 , was offered the part in the film , Even Cowgirls Get The Blues . |
| 23 | When I was offered the editorship , I was told the clock stood at five to 12 . ’ |
| 24 | Jake Barrie was relieved of his booking duties and the Mean Fiddler 's Dave Phillips was offered the chance to revive the Pendletons ' flagging garden party . |
| 25 | Dr Daniel told The Art Newspaper that ‘ someone , either working for the family or an independent speculative dealer , has already approached the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York offering the collection ’ , and that ‘ a private Spanish gallery was offered the Kramar collection from someone in Japan ’ . |
| 26 | [ Valerie Way ] was offered the point and given a brief to examine the transfer procedures of parents when children change from primary school to McGregor , to explore the opportunities possible . |
| 27 | The only major attempt to impose terms on the Crown was made in 1730 , when Peter 's daughter Anne was offered the throne . |
| 28 | Subsequently , in 1899 , Carter was offered the position of Inspector General of Antiquities for Upper Egypt , but his post with the Egyptian Antiquities service came to an abrupt end when he was held responsible for a near diplomatic incident in which disgruntled French tourists assaulted some guards at a site . |
| 29 | In 1920 he was offered the Governor-Generalships , first of South Africa and then of Australia , together with a peerage . |
| 30 | But the dealer was offered the job . |