1.   Even though he could barely stand, John made one last desperate bid for survival.

2.   He was standing in the middle of the road in a desperate bid to get help.

3.   Protestors had climbed lime trees in a desperate bid to stop them being destroyed.

4.   Then Vernage noticed Sergeant King staggering down the road in a desperate bid to flag down a car.

5.   He made a desperate bid to save his job.

6.   Knox made a desperate bid to get in front at the last corner but Martin held his line and emerged the winner.

7.   FIREMEN made a desperate bid to revive a pet bird following a shed fire which spread to an aviary.

8.   And over a million perfectly healthy cattle, sheep and pigs are being slaughtered in a desperate bid to end the epidemic of foot and mouth disease.

9.   And people who spend their life savings in a desperate bid to get into the United States make reluctant witnesses, prosecutors say.