Example sentences of "offered us [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Cross , speaking on behalf of Mr Bond , who bought the picture at Sotheby 's in 1987 , confirmed to The Independent that ‘ Sotheby 's approached us and offered us a loan facility against the picture . ’ |
| 2 | The incident also offered us a glimpse of the glamorous , sometimes expensive , globe trotting lifestyle of a successful wine merchant . |
| 3 | They offered us a handsome sum and we accepted . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ A customer walked in this morning and offered us a fiver for it , ’ said an assistant . |
| 5 | When , however , we took time out and discussed it , we realized that the fact that we were more diverse offered us a strength against our competitors if we could only capitalize on it . |
| 6 | When Ford offered us a safe harbour , it took me all of 15 seconds to say yes . ’ |
| 7 | Before dinner , John , who was so laid-back he made the trees seem neurotic , offered us a yoga lesson . |
| 8 | So we asked council if they could get us a place and they offered us a flat at first over the other side , I do n't know what walk it was on , and they says , You can stay there until we get an house for you . |
| 9 | As a great concession , the bursar offered us a room in a hostel for graduate students . |
| 10 | They therefore offered us a ground-floor flat in a house that they owned . |
| 11 | Back in those Hard Times , funerals offered us the comfort of knowing that , however tough it was for me and thee , there was always somebody who had it worse . |
| 12 | ‘ As we looked at the range of products available , we saw that FCRS offered us the most flexible route as the basic packaged solution that could be easily maintained . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Wedgwood 1993 offered us the opportunity to welcome customers to out factory and headquarters and to talk them through our various new products and promotional initiatives . |
| 14 | And she rang up here when when they offered us the space , she rang up here and asked for me . |
| 15 | One result of this difference of reference is that it is possible to construct sentences which will be analytic or contradictory on the one interpretation but not on the other : ( 11 ) Nikolai offered us the message decoded but it was not decoded when he offered it to us 4.2 One curious feature about these adjectives is that they somehow seem to modify not only the noun which they accompany but simultaneously the verb as well ; if this is a genuine observation it will be surprising on general grounds , since it would be decidedly abnormal in syntax for one element to simultaneously qualify two different items . |
| 16 | We considered gas , electricity and oil , and natural gas offered us the best benefits , ’ said Mike MacCormack , Administrator at Dunster Castle . |