Example sentences of "was offered a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pennett was offered a one-season trial on Johnson 's recommendation , and says : ‘ It has so far gone better than I dared to hope . |
| 2 | By then , Westminster had merged with National Provincial and Wanless was offered a new job working in market intelligence for another King 's graduate , David Lomax . |
| 3 | He was offered a good job on a ship called the and she 's purpose built for the North sea after |
| 4 | Her first book Lamb , Leeks and Laverbread explored the delights of Welsh food , and it had just been published when her husband , a British army officer , was offered a two-year posting in Cyprus . |
| 5 | If he was offered a 16-week repayment period for instance , instead of the 15-week ones , with £1.99 instalments ( ‘ Gosh , that 's under £2 a week ! ’ ) , he might be frankly incredulous when told that the rate of charge , instead of 6.6 per cent with the over-£2 instalments , was now 44.4 per cent . |
| 6 | At the welfare centre in Seoul 's Chungang University which serves food for the capital 's poorest children , she was offered a beef-filled pancake . |
| 7 | Octopus feed on small crustacea , and Young designed experiments in which the octopus would be shown a large black or white shape — say a cross — at the same time as it was offered a small crab . |
| 8 | When his unfortunate eye injury forced him to quit the game early in 1991 , he had learned his trade and was offered a full-time job . |
| 9 | She was offered a spare ride in the last race , a two-year-old trained by Ian Gardem , for whom she had never ridden before . |
| 10 | He started as a student doing a summer job until he was offered a permanent position by the present Chairman , Ian Presly . |
| 11 | He was offered a starring role in Liverpool-born playwright Peter Shaffer 's Black Comedy . |
| 12 | It all started , she explains , when her husband Robert was offered a voluntary posting on the Cambridge charity 's dental care programme in Dharamsala in the foothills of the Himalayas , where 15,000 Tibetans have been living in exile since the Chinese invaded their country . |
| 13 | The most striking example of an ( unsuccessful ) attempt at bribery was described by an officer who was offered a free choice of goods from a manufacturer 's showroom if he would pour away a formal sample he had just taken ( see s. iii , ch. 6 ) . |
| 14 | Under its terms any soldier who wanted one was offered a free passage to France . |