Example sentences of "offered [pers pn] the [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so he offered me the moon to get me |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now it offered her the chance to get away from him for ever … |
| 4 | He had spoken to his solicitor earlier , and the officer offered him the chance to see a solicitor , which was declined . |
| 5 | He was running short of petrol and that route offered him the chance to capture replenishments along the way . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |