Example sentences of "offered [pron] the " 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 | One management even offered me the role of Fairy Godmother in Cinderella . |
| 3 | Porter offered me the biro . |
| 4 | There was a story that she had once been married to a hollow cheeked Indian tour guide called Willy Wither who had taken us up the river and touchingly offered me the use of his very expensive camera ( ‘ A holiday without a camera is a terrible thing . ’ ) , |
| 5 | He pulled out his wallet , removed a twenty-dollar note from it and offered me the money . |
| 6 | He offered me the job . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Columbia offered me the market price . ’ |
| 9 | Glyndebourne offered me the part on the record , but the fee was pitiful — £40 or something like that . |
| 10 | He installed me in the base-camp , an old redbrick gardener 's cottage with roses climbing up the side , offered me the keys to the crew bus so that I could pick up something to eat in nearby Worksop , and even had the foresight to take a pint of milk from the warden 's fridge so that I 'd be able to make a cup of coffee in the morning . |
| 11 | The moment I touched the ground I knew why — the excessive ( to me — but normal to Tiree residents ) wind whipped me and my heavily laden briefcase into the lounge where Peter McMillan , Manager of Scarinish Branch offered me the relative calm of his car . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd only been at Rangers five minutes when he offered me the use of his villa in Florida . |
| 13 | He offered me the job on the spot . |
| 14 | Cos Dr offered me the the other day , a nurse to do my leg . |
| 15 | so he offered me the moon to get me |
| 16 | James bowed ironically and offered them the document ; Alexander Menzies pretended to think about it for a full five minutes and signed it with extraordinary flourishes that made the pen splutter and seemed to say , ‘ Very well , I will humour your ridiculous ritual . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ In those early days , ’ says Gatfield , ‘ the A&R person is everything to a new act — they hold the purse strings and there is a very special relationship because it was the A&R person who offered them the way into a record company , which is very , very special . ’ |
| 18 | Lloyd 's chairman David Coleridge reiterated his elation at having the new tenants while their listed Edwardian building is repaired , and offered them the use of his building 's catering facilities — an important consideration for many members . |
| 19 | He did , however , acknowledge that it would be neither responsible nor sensible to ignore the existence of the Action Committee , and he offered them the opportunity of a meeting with representatives of the council . |
| 20 | Sources told NME Moz offered them the support slot after being ‘ knocked out ’ by a recent performance . |
| 21 | For working-class girls ( unlike middle-class girls , for whom comprehensives potentially offered them the academic education denied to many under the systems of 11 + weighting ) comprehensives probably made little difference . |
| 22 | In line with the Group of Eight 's decision in December 1988 to offer fair treatment to Latin American debtors , Brazil in January 1990 proposed that debtor countries with payments imbalances or shortages of hard currency ( such as Bolivia , Ecuador and Peru ) should convert their debt into local currency to pay for Brazilian imports and to finance cross-border ventures , and also offered them the possibility of buying back debt at a discount . |
| 23 | The government refused the paramilitaries the political status which they requested , and offered them the same terms as those given to surrendering drug traffickers : a reduction of prison sentences in return for confessions to crimes . |
| 24 | Now it offered her the chance to get away from him for ever … |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ What's-his-name , then , the fellow who offered her the job . |
| 27 | He ran his hand up and down Molly 's spine as she sat beside him sipping her tea ‘ Have a drop of scrump , ’ he said quietly , and offered her the jar . |
| 28 | I stuck my thumb in the top , pulled it off , and offered her the bottle . |
| 29 | I offered her the job and after Donald Wilson met her she joined us . |
| 30 | And then , as she sat watching the dancers , Molly thought of something which made her shiver , so that Ken Corduroy , noticing it , thought she felt cold in the dark garden and offered her the sweater which , like so many of the older guests , he wore knotted about his neck . |