A father with several boys in Nigeria offered an explanation.
His father had never offered him advice before, let alone help.
"And to set the record entirely straight, your father didn't offer any."
My father offered a choice: Give him $10 for the tree, or he would call the cops.
Her father offers no answer except that he was weak.
His father had taken the phone and offered a few encouraging words.
His father offered him a small glass of vodka, which he took.
Even if his father offered, he wouldn't accept so much as one dollar of help.
The father, seeing it as the only way to save his son, offered himself in exchange.
When he was fourteen, his father offered to buy him a violin.