When my Uncle offered me a part-time job which would take care of my normal expenses and give me time to paint I accepted.

When they had licked the last of the wieners' taste from their fingers, they settled back, and Cappy offered Ernie a cigarette.

When offered a morsel it glanced right and left and winced, obviously frightened and expecting a kick, but too hungry not to snatch the tidbit.

When Governor Al Smith offered New York National Guard planes to fly the mail in and out of the state, it seemed a likely temporary solution, easing Burlington's bottleneck and that at Montpelier too.

When Lindburgh saw the crudeness of Carrel's machinery, he offered to build new equipment for the scientist.

When twenty-one was introduced in the United States, gambling houses offered bonus payouts to stimulate players ' interest.

When this woman wanted to buy a golden necklace ( no name given ) forged by four dwarves ( named Dvalinn, Alfrik, Berling, and Grer ), she offered them gold and silver but they replied that they would only sell it to her if she would lie a night by each of them.

When assured by Mersenne that it was, indeed, the product of the son not the father, Descartes dismissed it with a sniff: " I do not find it strange that he has offered demonstrations about conics more appropriate than those of the ancients ," adding, " but other matters related to this subject can be proposed that would scarcely occur to a sixteen-year-old child.

When offered $ 30, 000 to prove her claim with a blood test, she said that she didn't understand the relevance.

When conspiracy theories are offered as official claims ( for example, originating from a governmental authority, such as an intelligence agency ) they are not usually considered as conspiracy theories.

When asked for a picture of himself, he usually offered a photograph of a cat instead.

When he returned to the factory on Christmas Day he discovered Jed had just been unconscious, and offered him a free flat in Wigan to buy his silence, which Jed accepted.

When told that it was not for sale, Chiang offered a million dollars to recover the photo and its negative.

When other DHCP servers receive this message, they withdraw any offers that they might have made to the client and return the offered address to the pool of available addresses.

When news came that the local vicar had drowned while trying to save victims of the shipwreck, Squire Cobtree offered the post to Christopher Syn.

When the University of Chicago offered him a position he happily accepted.

When Maynard Smith realized that the somewhat disorganised Price was not ready to revise his article for publication, he offered to add Price as co-author.

When he finished school, the town of Leiston offered little to Newson, so he left for London to make his fortune.

When Satie was four years old, his family moved to Paris, his father having been offered a translator's job in the capital.

When used to describe offered traffic, a value followed by “ erlangs ” represents the average number of concurrent calls that would have been carried if there were an unlimited number of circuits ( that is, if the call-attempts that were made when all circuits were in use had not been rejected ).

When Williams was offered the screenplay for Jack he said he would only agree to do it if Coppola agreed to sign on as director.

When Telemann declined the job, it was offered to Christoph Graupner, who also declined it — though chiefly because he could not secure a dismissal from his employer the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.

When opponents tried to appease him, he accepted the gains that were offered, then went to the next target.

When Standard Fruit offered a new wage equivalent to US $ 1. 75 per day, the strike ultimately collapsed.

When Polk recovered, his father offered to bring him into the mercantile business, but Polk refused.

When his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.

When he felt the side of his head, his fingers came away covered with blood.

When McFeeley was halfway to the door, the proprietor emerged -- a mountainous, dark man, his head thick with resiny black hair, his eyes like two of the black olives he imported in boatloads.

When the fate of the individual is visited on the group, then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ), ah, then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

When he finally did he had to duck his head quickly away as the pitch came in.

When B'dikkat cut the head from Mercer's thigh, he felt the knife grinding against the cartilage which held the head to his own body.

When the great reform of the 11th century had put an end to the direct jurisdiction of the lay abbots, the honorary title of abbot continued to be held by certain of the great feudal families, as late as the 13th century and later, the actual head of the community retaining that of dean.

When a character in Aristophanes ' Knights says, " I dreamed the goddess poured ambrosia over your head — out of a ladle ," the homely and realistic ladle brings the ineffable moment to ground with a thump.

When prompted by a pair of inauspicious oracles, the king sacked the E-kur temple, supposedly protected by the god Enlil, head of the pantheon.

When they sought advice about this event, an oracle told them to take the head down and bury it, and to make annual sacrifice to Onesilos as a hero, saying that it would be better for them if they did this.

When the Olympian deities overtook the older deities of Greece and she was born of Metis ( inside Zeus who had swallowed the goddess ) and " re-born " through the head of Zeus fully clothed, Athena already wore her typical garments.

When the contents were thawed, it was discovered that the hair was not real, the head was hollow, and the feet were rubber.

When Brown retired as head coach following the 1975 season and appointed Bill " Tiger " Johnson as his successor, Walsh resigned and served as an assistant coach for Tommy Prothro with the San Diego Chargers in 1976.

* When finished with a head of Guinness stout, the result is called an Irish Russian or a Smooth Black Russian.

When it was time to dismantle the city walls of the Meng family, the governor was reluctant to have his city walls torn down and convinced the head of the Meng family not to do so.

When the piston has moved up to the top of its stroke inside the cylinder, and the remaining volume inside the head or combustion chamber has been reduced to 100 cc, then the compression ratio would be proportionally described as 1000: 100, or with fractional reduction, a 10: 1 compression ratio.

When awareness is focused on memories of past experiences and mental verbalisations, the energy flow to the head chakra increases and the energy flow to the heart chakra lessens.

When the throat chakra settles and energy is distributed evenly between the head and the heart chakras, one is able to truly contact one's senses and touch real feelings.

When he was a 16-year-old pupil at St Paul's School in London, the lines about Humphry Davy came into his head during a science class.

When they opened the bag to show the guards, it appeared no longer to hold her head but to be full of rose petals.

When the hoop is placed around the drum head and shell and tightened down with tension rods, the tension of the head can be adjusted.