1.   A group of individuals bid for the Games and agreed to pay all the costs.

2.   Council members condemned plans to make universities bid for public money based on the number of students they expected to teach.

3.   The specifications were sent to seven suppliers who were invited to bid for the installation of a new system.

4.   With an effort the Collector removed his eyes from the food and looked at the crowd assembled to bid for it.

5.   Three firms bid for the contract on the new buildings.

6.   She decided to bid for a Georgian dressing table.

7.   She bid for a desk and a chair.

8.   For the first time, foreign companies, and private Indian companies, would be encouraged to bid for onshore, as well as offshore, blocks.

9.   The role of tender panels is to bid for the notes issued by the corporate and to use their placing power to transfer them to investors.

10.   This would build up a fund from which they could afford to bid for new discoveries at fair market prices.