Example sentences of "do [not/n't] offer " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie could tell that he would have liked to stop for a chat , that he felt sorry for her left on her own , but she lacked either her grandmother 's grace or her mother 's energy , so she did not offer him tea . |
| 2 | Roddick did not offer any resistance , because at the time she was a frustrated actress and she felt teaching English and history to a class of forty kids at a local secondary school was the next best thing to acting . |
| 3 | Yugoslavia faded after an imaginative start and did not offer a serious threat until late in the game , when Mladenovic curled in a free-kick . |
| 4 | America disapproved of the repatriation but did not offer to take any refugees . |
| 5 | But the Woman did not offer him the ear-piece that she and Doyle used . |
| 6 | We did not offer the all-day hospitality of previous years but were delighted to see members at the tea parties we organised , and enjoyed chatting with visitors to our stand in the Women in the Rural Community tent . |
| 7 | It did not offer more choice but less than there was before . |
| 8 | He was shocked when she told him that the gardener came three times a week and did not offer to mend it . |
| 9 | They did not offer me works of comparable greatness as alternatives , so their objections were hardly a problem . |
| 10 | There was no comfort to be found in her husband 's arms and in fact comfort was something he did not offer , being much too preoccupied with his own sense of injured pride . |
| 11 | While in almost all cases the Liberal Democrats would vote against a Queen 's Speech which did not offer stability , factors such as the threat of war against Libya or an economic crisis with the pound ‘ dropping like a stone ’ would change the situation . |
| 12 | And since the party was principally an election machine , it did not offer channels for new young talent . |
| 13 | Roland did not offer to accompany Blackadder to the London Library . |
| 14 | As a result , by the time the DET did a survey of farm schooling in 1986 , only 3 per cent of the total of 5,782 farm schools offered education for more than seven grades , and 21 per cent did not offer education beyond four grades . |
| 15 | And ‘ Knife ’ did not offer any resistance : |
| 16 | She did not offer us a tour of the house . |
| 17 | In this group of 27 respondents , only two specifically noted that they were able to spend their full time on training , another two did not offer any estimate of time , and a further two indicated that their time plus their assistant 's time equalled one full-time post . |
| 18 | ‘ I did not offer Dustin the role as insurance for American release , ’ insisted Germi . |
| 19 | In any case , the police did not offer a high enough salary for any but the most inexperienced official . |
| 20 | A E Hook & Co , which had been set up in 1922 and ran offices in Sandown , Ryde and Newport , was earning a respectable fee income of around £600,000 but had decided that the island did not offer prospects for further material growth . |
| 21 | A few shops selling furniture and electrical goods did not offer credit at all , and the more recent credit developments such as budget accounts seemed rare . |
| 22 | Simon behaved in a rather superior way and did not offer Jesus the usual courtesies given to a guest . |
| 23 | Jackson 's 1957 paper had made the first study of muon catalysed fusion in mixtures of deuterium and tritium but had concluded that there too the energy return did not offer much practical hope . |
| 24 | The discussions of youth problems on the pages of Zhongguo Qingnian did not offer realistic advice according to many students . |
| 25 | In developing the critique of political economy as a critique of ideology , Marx retained some aspects of the dialectic of Hegelian critique , but did not offer a philosophical foundation for it within his own materialist system . |
| 26 | The company did not offer any prices for it . |
| 27 | Although this distinction has no basis in the text of the Convention , it was argued that if the person required to produce material or provide a deposition were a party subject to the in personam jurisdiction of the United States courts then the Convention did not offer any protection |
| 28 | A leading article in The Times found the general approach tentative , but did not offer any criticism on those grounds . |
| 29 | However , other studies of unmarked/marked pairs did not offer support for this view . |
| 30 | Much of it was irrelevant to the needs of the individuals concerned ; many skills offered did not offer the prospect of future employment , and quite a lot of training provision was inadequate . |