Sentence examples for bids on the table from inspiring English sources

The German media company von Holtzbrinck Group's St. Martin's Press and Farrar, Straus & Giroux, as well as one of the media giant Bertelsmann's houses, left bids on the table until the end.

The three bids on the table help R.B.S. achieve different things.

But with two other bids on the table, she decided to meet the asking price.

This afternoon, the President and the Congressional leaders were to have put their opening bids on the table.

We don't know the amount they offered, but Sony reportedly tendered $5m and there were believed to be higher bids on the table.

Administrators Duff and Phelps signalled last night that there could be five bids on the table for the stricken Scottish champions by close of play this evening.

Abbey said it had a fiduciary duty to look at offers but "at this time we only have one bid on the table".

We also understand there is one firm bid on the table at present.

That leaves Liverpool with a quandary that originates in the very nature of the bid on the table – one from a direct rival – and, even more so, in the lack of prospective competition for Suárez's signature.

And EMI, the British record company, had put a bid on the table for Warner Music.

That compares to the current bid on the table of around 718p.