Sentence examples for winner bid from inspiring English sources

Bidders could be heard speaking Chinese and English (and, some said, Norwegian), but the mystery winner bid over the phone, through Charles Moffett, Sotheby's executive vice president and vice chairman of its worldwide Impressionist, modern and contemporary art department.

BNP Paribas, the auction's winner, bid euro2.2 billion, or euro58 a share, for the stake, a 49% premium over the market value and a quarter more than the next-highest bid.

One kid offers four dollars, another ten; the winner bids twelve dollars.

The boards were not interesting, but the winners bid accurately and gained 37.5 match points out of 50, 25 more than Moss and Radin.

If all the winners bid high because of the hype surrounding Google, they may find themselves paying too much for a piece of an overvalued company whose shares plummet once they begin trading on the open market.

There are five category winners bidding to win the £30,000 main prize – that means pitting poetry against biography, first novel, children's book and novel.

The state comptroller and the attorney general will also review the winner's bid.

Specifically, the winner can bid to host the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, the Turner prize, the Brit awards and the Stirling prize.

Your report that the Department of Energy has awarded management of the Los Alamos National Laboratory to a team of industrial companies headed by an academic institution, the University of California, suggests that science will be submerged to industrial management ("California Is Surprise Winner in Bid to Run Los Alamos," news article, Dec. 22).

A grim concrete building in Ghent's citadel park with a strong aroma of fast food might have seemed a strange venue for a Tour de France winner to bid farewell – whether provisionally or not – but this place and this event have particular resonance for Sir Bradley Wiggins.

If the verification is passed, the auctioneer publishes the winner's bid.