1.   A journalist masquerading as a businessman approached the politicians, and offered them bribes.

2.   Some sportsmen have been offered bribes to perform badly.

3.   As the competition reached a fever pitch, the CIA came in with reports that the French were offering large bribes to Brazilian officials with influence over the decision.

4.   Calvin Grigsby, the principal of the firm, was allegedly caught in offering bribes to Dade County Commissioner James Burke in exchange for bond business.

5.   Do we want as president a man who offers bribes to silence a witness?

6.   Fong denied offering bribes, according to his lawyers.

7.   He, too, was offered bribes, the report said, for information about French strategy on audiovisual policy and on telecommunications.

8.   Hodler is the IOC member who blew the whistle on the Olympic bribery scandal last winter, alleging that bid groups routinely offered bribes in exchange for votes.

9.   Indeed, such simplicity is at the heart of this interaction in which nutritional bribes are offered in exchange for transport.

10.   In the Zhivkov era, many dissidents were offered bribes to remain silent instead of being imprisoned.