Example sentences of "[pers pn] were offered the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furtwängler died in November 1954 and you were offered the orchestra . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're probably jealous too because you got the job through your dad , and then you were offered the foreman 's job . ’ |
| 3 | Er did you know about this when you were offered the flat ? |
| 4 | I went often , partly because I enjoyed dancing and partly because we were offered the most delicious cakes , of a sort that was almost impossible to obtain except on the black market . |
| 5 | But he , we , we were offered the agency for the four counties in the borders . |
| 6 | The Head Office of the London & Suburban Traction Co. was established at Electric Railway House ( now 55 Broadway , Westminster ) in 1916 and W. M. Wright became Secretary of the S.M.E.T. As a wartime measure , it was suggested to Croydon Corporation , that local routes in the area should be given service numbers and evidently they were offered the numbers 1–3 for their local routes . |
| 7 | They were offered the three alternative thresholds taken from the Institute 's recent consultative document and only 18% opted for the VAT registration limit ( turnover £36,600 ) ; 47% were in favour of the VAT cash accounting limit , and 35% opted for the EC small companies definition . |
| 8 | SIX stage-struck students from St Mary 's Sixth Form College , Middlesbrough , seized the chance of a lifetime this week when they were offered the opportunity of working with the Royal Shakespeare Company , says a recent school report . |
| 9 | His father was a farm administrator , and that went , too , when they were offered the chance to leave Yugoslavia . |
| 10 | They were offered the same curriculum as the rest of the unstreamed class , i.e. they were on course to fail the 11 plus . |
| 11 | And when they attempted to claim them , they were offered the ultimate solution — the street . |
| 12 | Now they were offered the chance to nominate a Governor ; this they declined , understandably in view of what had happened . |
| 13 | They were offered the job and it has been working very well . |
| 14 | The two figures could represent the Herculean task faced by William and Mary as they were offered the English throne in 1688 . |
| 15 | Once eligible for inclusion in the study , the nature of the trial was explained to the patients and they were offered the treatment allocated by randomisation . |
| 16 | Actually , if he were offered the choice of going wherever he liked in the world , he would probably choose Wimbledon . |