Sentence examples for make a bid for it from inspiring English sources

If they're not keen, maybe we should make a bid for it instead?

By then, he had paid numerous visits to the dealership and decided to make a bid for it.

Aventis, the large French pharmaceutical company, prepared last week to defend itself against reported plans by a smaller French drug company, Sanofi-Synthélabo, to make a bid for it.

ITV is one of those companies that constantly generates City rumours, such as could an American network like Discovery or Liberty Global make a bid for it as part of a diversification play to imitate Comcast's swoop on Sky? Would Netflix have some use for its broadcast studios?

Cadence, if a private equity firm were to make a bid for it, could be had for, oh, a little over $1 billion?

"It's no big secret that we made a bid for it to happen," said Perez.

He made a bid for it, hitting a long fly ball to left that Sanders caught on the warning track.

"I saw the house, felt its atmosphere, and – though I could not really afford to – made a bid for it.

In this sense, organizational power is transactional: It exists as potential until someone makes a bid for it, invests it, and produces results with it.

They made a bid for it, Disney came in and said 'No, you don't.' There is a struggle with that company, the former employer, right now, about gambling.

Biogen Idec put itself up for sale last year, but the recalcitrant management found clever ways to make the bidding process so onerous and unattractive that nobody made a bid for it.So will Big Pharma's land-grab succeed, heralding the long-awaited convergence of the two industries?