Sentence examples for bid for something from inspiring English sources

"You cannot deny Russia if they bid for something," he said on Russian soil.

Nestle, the world's biggest food company, is widely expected to make a bid for something.

Now the author, who also writes for film and TV, is making a bid for something a little more hard-won: literary respect.

Online auction sites and marketplaces You're covered by all these rules if you buy from any business (but not a private individual), although you're only given a cooling-off period if you buy on an auction site like eBay using something like "buy it now" and not if you bid for something in a live auction.

Check out Supply2Health, the government website that "advertises opportunities", if you fancy bidding for something.

I can't back down.' It's like bidding for something at an auction.

This feels like competitive bidding for something and somebody will be punished for this and I don't want it to be the Labour party.

"The film director Peter Jackson is a friend of mine and a collector – it wouldn't surprise me if he was on the end of the phone bidding for something," Anderson said.

In mine, which is also open-plan, if I'm at my desk bidding for something on eBay, there's only the risk of my boss sneaking up behind me.

Eight years later, Evan, who had managed his dad's last campaign, launched his own bid for governor, as something of a New Democrat.

Unlike Smithfield, which first approached IBP about merging more than a year ago, Tyson's decision to bid for IBP represents something of a strategic shift.