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. |