Example sentences of "[vb past] made [adj] attempt " in BNC.
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| 1 | At an earlier hearing the court heard that the police had made unsuccessful attempts to serve the complaint . |
| 2 | Jinny had made one attempt to say something to the boy , but Doyle stopped her immediately , catching hold of her chin and jerking her head away . |
| 3 | He had made many attempts to put his arms around me , but I had always evaded him . |
| 4 | Prior to their purchase of the building , the owner of the adjoining mill house had made two attempts to obtain permission from the local authority to change the use of the mill from industrial premises into a dwelling , but it was only with the current owners ' application of 1977 that planning permission for this change was granted . |
| 5 | The assassin had made two attempts upon her life . |
| 6 | They had made two attempts to bomb United States military trains in Lower Saxony in 1987 and 1988 . |
| 7 | Jean-Claude had made several attempts before to encapsulate the land of la Sologne in music . |
| 8 | He had made several attempts on it . |
| 9 | He said he had made several attempts to persuade the developers , Peter and Reay Campbell , to alter it . |
| 10 | She had made determined attempts at suicide by slashing her wrists several times . |
| 11 | Over the past nine days the convoy had made repeated attempts to reach Srebrenica but was blocked by Bosnian Serb authorities in spite of reports that up to 40 people a day were dying in the town . |
| 12 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 13 | The great office blocks of the 1890s had taken over that role , and the office-block stations had made some attempt to match them . |
| 14 | One in five appellants had made some attempt to obtain advice prior to the hearing , but only one in eight appellants is represented by an expert , as distinct from being accompanied by another member of the family or a friend without expert knowledge . |