Example sentences of "he [was/were] approach by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said yesterday that he was approached by headhunters for the £150,000 a year stock exchange job in August . |
| 2 | In February 1941 , he was approached by the Director of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC and asked if he would be prepared to give a series of broadcast talks on ‘ The Christian |
| 3 | Irish Premier Charles Haughey was at the motor show where he was approached by a journalist . |
| 4 | It was in his camp here that he was approached by a French envoy on behalf of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria , the same Maximilian who had been given the Palatine Electorate in 1623 , with a view to saving his lands from the depredations of Gustavus . |
| 5 | He was carrying the American Frank Connor 's bag when he was approached by Nick Faldo to join up with him again . |
| 6 | Within a couple of minutes of his destination he was approached by children again . |
| 7 | He was approached by the Huddersfield directors early in 1921 and the offer spurred him on to a determined effort to prove his innocence in the Leeds City affair . |
| 8 | After one of early games he was approached by a strange looking character who proposed a meeting ‘ which would be to your advantage , senor ’ . |
| 9 | He was playing alone near his home when he was approached by the boys who wanted him to go shoplifting . |
| 10 | He said he was approached by a group of Hylands parents asking him why Hylands should not become grant maintained . |
| 11 | He was approached by the family of a 14-year-old who had been held for alleged stone-throwing . |
| 12 | In 1980 , when Norman was UK Managing Director of Russell Reynolds , he was approached by Sir Peter Carey , then permanent Secretary to the Department of Trade , to find a new chief executive for British Steel . |
| 13 | In 1716 , for example , the Duke of Montrose was hard pressed to maintain his political dominance of Glasgow when he was approached by a member of the university on behalf of a recently promoted lieutenant of Brigadier Preston 's regiment , one of the senior corps of the army . |
| 14 | Joyce himself claimed that he was approached by Edward Barron whose father was proprietor of the Carreras Tobacco Company . |
| 15 | By 1958 Newman was the Drama Supervisor for CBC and was producing the very successful Canadian Television Theatre presentations when he was approached by the ABC TV company in England ( now London Weekend Television ) . |
| 16 | He applied unsuccessfully for the chair of technology at Edinburgh , and in 1862 was appointed keeper of minerals to the Royal Dublin Society , His meteorological output was confined to the translation of Dove 's book but in 1866 he was approached by his intimate friend ( Sir ) Edward Sabine [ q.v. ] , then at the height of his influence as president of the Royal Society and prospective chairman of the new meteorological committee , and was offered the directorship of the Meteorological Office . |
| 17 | Then , while shopping in Fore Street one morning , he was approached by Timothy Gedge , who smiled at him as though nothing untoward had occurred between them and asked if he had come to a decision about donating the curtains . |
| 18 | The continuity was then broken when in 1977 he was approached by a head-hunter and asked if he was interested in working in the communications industry , or Fleet Street — ‘ a contradiction in terms ’ , he said — and found himself working under Duke Hussey as commercial director at Times Newspapers , becoming general manager of the Sunday Times . |
| 19 | But the most surprised man in the field was Gillner when he was approached by a PGA European Tour official on the 13th and politely asked to take his time . |
| 20 | According to Jordanian officials Hafez had been recruited in early 1990 during a training course in Germany when he was approached by a female agent for Mossad ( the Israeli intelligence service ) posing as a US civilian . |
| 21 | Although he was apparently elected by the people of the Auvergne , he was approached by Alchima and Placidina , the mother and wife of Apollinaris , who asked him to step down in favour of their candidate . |
| 22 | Ben , who 's fifteen , had just started work at Stars Newsagents when he was approached by the gunman . |
| 23 | He was walking along Suffolk Parade to the post office to draw his pension , when he was approached by two youths . |
| 24 | Anthony Fox , whose elderly parents were shot dead in their Moy home by loyalist gunmen last year , says he was relaxing on a sun-kissed balcony in Mallorca when he was approached by a man who asked him to contact MI5 in London . |
| 25 | Several weeks later he was approached by the same man and a colleague in a Dungannon street , when he was ‘ explicitly asked to work for and provide information for them . ’ |
| 26 | He was approached by two men wearing balaclavas who assaulted him . |
| 27 | He was approached by the gang who first asked him for change . |