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The company said the money was used in part to bribe officials.

Those with money were able to bribe local officials to return.

And where did I get the money to bribe the teacher?

Friends, on the other hand, have often tried to bribe me not to.

She came down and brought money with her, trying to bribe me to go.

Everyone in my family was always bribing me to get more education.

In case we have to bribe our way through the lines.

They are only here because I have bribed them to come.

Any number of men could be bribed to do the work.

If possible, I would like the men bribed to report to you first.

Did he mean that they were bribed away from him?

Maybe that was because his father knew whom to bribe.

You're after the property and you want to bribe me.

A few even tried to bribe their way onto the list.

I'm sure there must be somebody we can bribe to do this.

He has no need to bribe or share with anybody.

I wondered if he'd had to bribe his friends to show up.

Well, that is no way to run a government, bribing people.

Often the security forces can be bribed to let people go, but not always.

"Can we bribe someone to put a stop to it?"

"Is that just another way to bribe me to leave?"

"You're saying you were bribing government officials to help third world countries?"

Some of the students bribe people to take letters to town.

I had to bribe three members of the family's personal law firm.

The answer is of course that they have bribed each political party.

And the companies had no idea their money was going for bribes.

I've been told the way the system works was through bribes.

Upon their return to the city, the police take half of what they have brought as a bribe to let them back in.

I even tried a bribe or two and it did no good.

In addition, he gave bribes to the officials of the company.

I could in no way be sure that a bribe would work.

And he probably paid a bribe to get the position in the first place.

At least one of the staff seemed happy enough to take her bribe money.

The bribes, he said, made it possible for him to get back to work with just one lost day.

Officials say they doubt the students knew about the bribes.

It's the only bribe I have left to offer him.

A bribe, they might have called it, in another day.

The time bought by his bribe money had run out.

She wanted the money back, but also suggested a bribe.

Maybe to start a business, without having to pay a bribe to anybody.

In the end the city wanted bribes from us, which we refused.

The job is over, so it's not exactly a bribe.

In addition, a committee found that he had taken bribes.

Each side knew the other was taking bribes early in the strike.

At the time of his death, he was under investigation for taking bribes.

How many men would turn down a whole planet for a bribe?

The largest single bribe he had ever given in his life.

It was going to be a bribe offer, then, he thought.

She was also paying more out in bribes than ever before.

That was bad enough but quite often they also took bribes directly from the people.