Sentence examples for bid to pick from inspiring English sources

Xavi floats the ball across the penalty area in a bid to pick out Pedro, who wins a corner.

3 min: Bastos takes the second corner and sends this one towards the far post in a bid to pick out the centre-half Cadu.

A new screening test for newborn babies is to be trialled in a bid to pick up more of those with heart defects, Public Health England has announced.

But she was hoping to avoid following her rival's track, sailing further east in a bid to pick up a more helpful breeze to gain some miles.

A Democratic bid to pick up a House seat in the state's 11th District failed as Patsy Keever lost to the incumbent Republican, Charlie Taylor, by nine points.

24 min: Decent defending from Downingwho spots the run of Arseniy Logashov and takes the ball off his toe as the Anzhi right-back galloped through the Liverpool penalty area in a bid to pick up a return pass from Mbark Boussoura and fire off a shot on goal.

He also said the administration had inappropriately used an accelerated and less rigorous bidding process to pick Maximus and other contractors.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, movie studio Universal has won a bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids".

In both leagues, each team has a yearly budget of 1,000 units, and we (blind) bid every Sunday to pick up free agents.

As far back as 2000, at the conclusion of a visit to Pyongyang, Madeleine K. Albright, then secretary of state, bid Mr. Kim to "pick up the telephone any time," to which the North Korean leader replied, "Please give me your e-mail address".

So it might just be that their tactical turn is exactly that: an opportunistic bid to try to pick up some followers from the sidelines of a popular nationalist movement that is overwhelmingly civic and inclusive in nature, rather than because of any deep-seated beliefs.