Sentence examples for bid to catch a from inspiring English sources

Throw open a window in a desperate bid to catch a breeze and the unpleasant smell of smoke bounds in.

Travelling through Europe as a teenager, he dragged friends through every gallery in a bid to catch a glimpse of the Great European Masters.

Well over a thousand people gathered around the cattle show ring in a bid to catch a glimpse of the prince, where he chatted to judges and those showing off their animals.

To wit: La Liga, an app for fans of Spanish soccer which has been discovered using microphone access combined with the precise GPS location of Android users to listen in on people's surroundings during match times — in a bid to catch bars that might not have a license to broadcast the match being watched. .

In a bid to catch the culprit, the Chicago Police Department released an all-points-broadcast on Sunday, calling for officers to be on the look-out for a black male in his mid 20s "who resembles the popular rap artist Ice Cube".

Hoffman said he loaned himself half-a-million dollars in a bid to catch up with state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, who was the first Democrat to enter the race and who is far ahead of Hoffman in fund-raising.

Iowa City police released a photo this week of a man stealing a $250 "Mega Masturbator" toy from the Romantix Pleasure Palace, in a bid to catch the pervy perp after he allegedly held an employee at knife point, The Smoking Gun reported.

In a bid to catch up with Renault-Nissan and Tesla Motors, BMW is designing an electric car around its electric components "from the ground up" using lightweight materials such as carbon fibre, fibreglass and aluminium.

Following the league's lengthy suspension, a large number of club games have been played in a short space of time in a bid to catch up.

After spending billions of dollars in recent years to bolster its army in a bid to catch up to Israel's military capability, Syria was reportedly pursuing a nuclear program until Israel bombed its suspected reactor facility in 2007.

In a bid to catch the votes of Britain's fishing communities, they were indulging in a nasty piece of foreigner-bashing which cast doubt on their claims to favour free trade, market forces and a constructive role in Europe.