Example sentences of "be offer a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then she told me she 'd been offered a part in Jane Eyre at Warrington rep and did I think she ought to accept . |
| 2 | Some have worked at Bentley pianos for forty years , but they have n't been offered a penny in redundancy pay . |
| 3 | I have since been offered a write-up in one of the car hi-fi magazines about the work on my car and others we have worked on . |
| 4 | FORMER All Black captain DAVID KIRK , who narrowly missed a seat in the New Zealand Parliament representing the constituency of the former Prime Minister , Sir Robert Muldoon , has been offered a job in the office of the New Prime Minister in Wellington . |
| 5 | She 's been offered a job in London . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been offered a job in general practice . |
| 7 | ‘ She 'd been offered a job in America , nanny to a widower with two small children . |
| 8 | Following the burglary , she has been offered a place in a warden controlled block in Milton Keynes . |
| 9 | The youngster has been offered a place in both the Liverpool and Everton schools of excellence . |
| 10 | Miss Kyte considered herself fortunate to have finally been offered a post in a better class of household , for Sir John Merchiston 's widow sounded a much more promising prospect than Mrs Mugglesby , to whom she had last been in service . |
| 11 | The former speaker , who will start his new duties during a lecture tour of America this summer , will start on a commission basis , but , if his efforts are successful , he may be offered a stake in a formal American venture . |
| 12 | With parliamentary life now dominated by machines rather than individuals , the back benches are packed with men and women whose only hope is to be offered a job in the Whips ' Office or a junior ministerial brief . |
| 13 | Perhaps , with such powers of invention and mathematical ability , he will be offered a job in television sooner than we think . |
| 14 | Applicants for Entrance Bursaries who are not offered a Bursary but who achieve the standard necessary for entry will be offered a place in the School . |
| 15 | Will Kinnock be offering a seat in the Lords to the former Labour Foreign Secretary ? |
| 16 | The move would also , it was hoped , create the conditions for more ETA prisoners to apply for " reinsertion " , whereby they were offered an amnesty in return for a renunciation of violence . |
| 17 | Also , from October 1986 , the University is offering an M.Phil in Housing Studies which is two years part-time or a one year extension to the Housing Diploma . |
| 18 | Even lesser known men were received with open arms and , in some cases , cheque books : when the Rev. J. A. Macfadyen went to America to ‘ supply ’ the pulpit of Brooklyn 's Central Congregational Church he was offered a church in Chicago at the princely stipend of £2,000 — over £60,000 today — but he turned down the offer . |
| 19 | He was looking for female voices , he remembered Jakki , invited her to submit some tapes and — presto ! — she was offered a job in The Smoke . |
| 20 | Those who are not prepared to do so may find that their promotion 's blocked or they 're shunted into a backwater — one experienced insurance broker of my acquaintance , for instance , was offered a job in the stationery department ! |
| 21 | Cottle was interested and a few weeks later was invited to London where he was offered a job in the Foreign office , doing something , somewhere . |
| 22 | However , after working in television research and for a translation company , two years ago I was offered a job in the USSR team of the East European section of Price Waterhouse . |
| 23 | After a spell in teaching , she joined the Irish Times ; five years later , in 1973 , she was offered a job in the paper 's office in London , where she met her husband , writer Gordon Snell . |
| 24 | In December 1938 Burgess was offered a job in Section D of SIS ( Secret Intelligence Service ) , set up to investigate sabotage and propaganda in the event of war . |
| 25 | He was offered a job in America with Ingersoll Rand but he would n't go . |
| 26 | She was offered a job in the government and she turned it down ! |
| 27 | No one was offered a seat in the front row except Manescu . |
| 28 | In 1687 , when James II was trying to conciliate Dissenters in order to win toleration for Catholics , Bunyan was offered a place in a reconstructed Bedford Town Corporation , which he refused . |
| 29 | He was offered a knighthood in 1847 when Queen Victoria visited Cambridge , but he declined it and the honour which came to him was accompanied by little emolument . |
| 30 | The following year I was offered a house in town and moved into Stornoway to be nearer my work . |