Example sentences of "[noun] and offer me a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I always walked the seven miles home , but that day the Old Man and Peter Revers came past in the car and offered me a lift . |
| 2 | Zak came up to me with Donna and offered me a lift back to the city in their bus , and at that exact moment I saw not Bill Baudelaire himself but someone who might go among the owners , where Tommy could n't . |
| 3 | Some grain of self-preserving sense must have penetrated Rickie 's skull , for he suddenly dropped on to his heels and offered me a placatory grin . |
| 4 | Bruce took me to Millwall and offered me a contract , but I did n't fancy living in London . |
| 5 | A middle-aged man picked me up on the M4 near Swindon and offered me a lift to London , which was very convenient . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course it has n't all stemmed from that seed , ’ he continued , pouring a glass of fruit juice and offering me a bowl of seaplant mousse into which to dip my bran biscuit . |
| 7 | You never know who might mistake Armstrong for a real taxi and offer me a few quid as a friendly gesture for giving them a lift . |
| 8 | Monty looked down his glasses and offered me a few censorious words . |
| 9 | In typical style Shaheen had commissioned the QE2 to take a large party of people to the opening and offered me a cabin on her , but as I could not spare the time and was not sure that I would be entirely at home with my fellow passengers , I flew over in response to his invitation . |
| 10 | Looking back upon that exit , I am reminded of a particularly nasty afternoon forty-two years ago , when as a young subaltern cowering in a ditch , the sole survivor of a shattered Churchill tank crawled from his steel tomb and offered me a cigarette . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's alright for some ’ , they say , as if my fairy godmother has miraculously waved her magic wand and offered me a real life Martini advert on a plate . |
| 12 | They took me down to the labour ward and offered me a sedative to help me sleep . |
| 13 | As Reid and I put down the cases we were carrying , Reid uncorked the bottle and offered me a shot of whisky . |
| 14 | All my dreams of playing for United to the end of my career — and I was on a seven- year contract — vanished when Ferguson called me into his office and offered me a cash pay-off to clear out and go and do something else with my life . |
| 15 | Once , this woman from an agency stopped me in the street and offered me a job and I travelled to Manchester to her agency , but they said : you 'd need to lose a few pounds , and get rid of this spot , and things like that ; and I thought : I ca n't be bothered . |