Sentence examples for doing a bid from inspiring English sources

"There's nothing better than shooting up some brown tar or better yet, China White when you're doing a bid," a prisoner we'll call Chance tells me.

While doing a bid at Duel Vocational Institution, some gangsters from Los Angeles decided to unify the gang members doing time, calling themselves La Eme (or the Mexican Mafia) in order to protect themselves from other inmates, who organized by race.

On the 1st of September we will do a bid for the season later.

Although it is unlikely to unravel, as did a bid by USA Networks for Lycos last year, it will not be easy to execute.

In the play's final moments, she lights a candle that sends some chimes spinning around and around to the sound of their own music — a gesture that is, like almost everything she does, a bid for grace.

He's got a lengthy rap sheet of misdemeanors, and did a bid upstate for a 1980 robbery.

Channel 4 did make a bid of £54m, to show two thirds of England's home Tests between 2006 and 2009.

"We did make a bid for additional funding to try and increase the housing supply from the private sector to help but unfortunately that bid was turned down," she said.

A number of Premier League and Championship clubs showed interest in signing Jarvis, and Plymouth Argyle made an unsuccessful bid for the player, manager Ian Holloway commenting that "we did make a bid but it got knocked back".

In an act of political guile, Clegg negotiated with both parties in secret, not telling the other what he was doing in a bid to maximise his strength.

I think that says they don't see a huge amount of upside in this and they're not going to go out there and do a suicide bid at a price that is not economically viable".