Example sentences of "to offer [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like all British officials of the Egyptian Government I had been dismissed from my university post eighteen months before , and I was glad that the British Council was able to offer me a small post in Athens , instead of piece work in Cairo . |
| 2 | ‘ And that was not a hint for you to offer me a bed for the night , Miss Rose Fenemore . |
| 3 | Crowe then had the vulgar audacity to offer me a pitiful ten quid if I revealed the manager 's name . |
| 4 | This meant that people were prepared to offer me a sequence of positions in which I only had to do research without having to lecture . |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't hesitate to offer me a large drink ! ’ she squeaks , as she climbs out of her car one sultry afternoon , and they all emerge from the house , astonished , Howard and the boys stripped to the waist . |
| 6 | ‘ Then if you 're ready , shall we move , as I do n't imagine you can bring yourself to offer me a drink before we go ? ’ |
| 7 | Would you like to offer me a nightcap ? ’ |
| 8 | Huey Carmichael wants to offer me a job . |
| 9 | So , Sister Hennessy , how would you like to offer me a cup of coffee so we can get acquainted while these two young men carry on with their duties ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ A number of clubs are prepared to offer me a goalkeeper . |
| 11 | My analysis of the situation would be very favourable to them , but they 'd need to offer me a 50,000-acre country estate and the Chancellorship . ’ |
| 12 | I could see him thumb through several papers before returning to the counter with a single sheet ; he made no attempt to invite me in or even to offer me a chair . |
| 13 | Generosity , was Clary 's middle name , he would never cease to offer me a cigar or a sip of the ‘ funny stuff ’ . |
| 14 | Well if I left at the same time as you he mi he might feel obliged to offer me a lift but if he did |
| 15 | Cos it wo n't so are you going to offer me a Polo ? |
| 16 | Realizing I could n't hang around on the dole forever waiting for the Tate Gallery to offer me an exhibition , and also that my boyfriend , also on the dole , was not likely to be able to support me , I decided to go for further training . |
| 17 | ‘ Are you going to offer me an apple ? ’ asked David . |
| 18 | ‘ But if Sipotai is fool enough to offer me the chance , then we have a score to settle , he and 1 . ’ |
| 19 | Only Swansea looked likely to offer them a serious test . |
| 20 | Hitler was able to offer them a new mass base for the apparent consolidation of their leadership positions within the framework of an authoritarian system , together with the prospect of Germany attaining a position of hegemony within Europe and even world power status . |
| 21 | Our endorsement of Tory macro-economic policy , and acceptance that it should aim for no more than monetary stability , meant we were unable to offer them a convincing route to full employment or economic recovery . |
| 22 | His technique was to win women 's confidence with his charm , and to offer them a spiked drink . |
| 23 | It is designed to offer them a net return higher than that available direct from any building society deposit account . |
| 24 | We must remember that to deny someone control of their own lives is to offer them a most profound insult , not to mention the injury which the frustration of their wishes and the setting at naught of their own plans for themselves will add . |
| 25 | But in embattled Eritrea the people are eager to learn and the teachers keen to offer them a new kind of education . |
| 26 | Yeah , because I mean , like when I had the home erm , that again obviously you ca n't , people said that , I mean , it 's changed a lot but when I had the home you did n't just pull an , out anybody from the street and call them care assistants you had to offer them a day 's training every week |
| 27 | The prescription was to offer them no reason for distinguishing between employers who , as custodians for the State , managed those centre-pieces of Socialist attainment , the nationalised industries ; and those who managed privately owned industries . |
| 28 | For many years serious and respectable citizens had worried about the new masses but now at least entrepreneurs and businessmen were able to offer them every service , every distraction , and every entertainment that their wages allowed . |
| 29 | Whatever political differences exist on policy , I am sure that hon. Members on both sides of the House will wish to offer them every support in that endeavour . |
| 30 | Young people differ in their interests and aptitudes , and we need a range of schools to offer them the best opportunities . |