1.   But the grand design was torpedoed when Lord Hanson made a bid for Imperial that shareholders found impossible to resist.

2.   It was the same outfit Archer had told Newman that made the bid for Bennington.

3.   McCormick would not rule out the possibility of making a bid for the business.

4.   Moreover, departmental rivalries are endemic in the style of central government whereby competitive bids are made for limited financial resources.

5.   Paramount made a bid for the film rights to the book.

6.   The bid was made by a consortium headed by Sir James Goldsmith through a specially created company called Hoylake.

7.   The paddle is used to make a bid.

8.   He made several bids at the auction.

9.   It had attempted to conceal its breach of the limit by making the bids in the names of clients and by not reporting its acquisitions to the Federal Reserve.

10.   The first time that the door opened and spilled yellow light out on to the dark afternoon street, it was the parson making a bid for freedom.