Possible Clues:

• Was prepared to give out free food, nothing less!
• Supplied feed for bull
• Freed of entanglement, volunteered
• Proposed bid
• Put forward for consideration
• Bid of 500 to protect damaged reef
• Made a bid of
• Volunteered a bit of 'Offside! Ref! Foul!' but it's rebuffed
• Like deals
• Aloof before daughter proposed