Example sentences of "[verb] a [adj] effort to get " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the last five months he has made a strenuous effort to get to know the area and the residents of this constituency of contrasts . |
| 2 | When jury selection commenced on Sept. 5 , the defence vainly made a last-minute effort to get the trial dismissed , alleging government breach of ethics because it had just learned that Noriega 's former lawyer , Raymond Takiff , who had advised him to surrender to US authorities in January 1990 , was at the time working secretly for federal authorities . |
| 3 | I think we should make a serious effort to get some progress on this thing . ’ |
| 4 | I suppose that because she had n't really known me from an early age , she made a tremendous effort to get to know me later . |
| 5 | I mean they were pretty shambly when I got to them and I made a supreme effort to get everything going the way I wanted it to go . |
| 6 | While Cato was still alive the Roman governing class made a determined effort to get to know the Celts better . |
| 7 | It took a fierce effort to get her back on her mental feet . |
| 8 | The staging of the Democratic convention in New York spurred the city into making a concerted effort to get the homeless people off the streets , and people who lived in the shanty town were evacuated , their homes cleared by bulldozers . |
| 9 | The estranged wife of the Marquis of Blandford says he 's making a real effort to get back on the straight and narrow . |
| 10 | If a shop 's good enough , it 's worth making a little effort to get to . |
| 11 | She had needed to make a real effort to get up today at all . |
| 12 | ‘ Four clubs have asked me to play next season , and I 'm going to make a big effort to get fit again . |