Example sentences of "[vb past] a [adj] effort [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hunt made a good effort to attract business to the state , but his political reforms floundered . |
| 2 | I made a mental effort to visualise his new house , to create some mind picture , but gave up after a few seconds . |
| 3 | Taking a deep breath , he made a visible effort to push the nightmare aside , and grinned down at her . |
| 4 | ‘ Of all the stupid , careless — ’ Flinching beneath contemptuous anger that gave each word the force of a blow , Polly could only watch as he made a visible effort to control himself . |
| 5 | She made a half-hearted effort to pull away from him , but ran into the implacable strength of his arm . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He made a tremendous effort to bring himself back into reality ; his hands shook and he swallowed twice as he tried to speak ; then he passed his right hand , still clutching the telegram , through his dark hair . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Virginia made a supreme effort to pull herself together . |
| 10 | Feeling her temper begin to rise again , Rory made a concerted effort to rein it in . |
| 11 | After the collapse of the MacDonald government and the dispute with the ILP , the Labour Party made a concerted effort to increase the strength of the League . |
| 12 | Carver looked at him , caught his fleeting expression , made a great effort to cool it . |
| 13 | In February the Japanese made a great effort to surround a British and Indian force in Arakan , but the result was a resounding victory for our men , who had indeed been cut off for some days , but supplied by air . |
| 14 | Paul writes that he is ‘ in ’ God — and as we look at the way that he wrote other letters , it is clear that he made a great effort to maintain that special relationship . |
| 15 | With the conference appearing doomed to collapse over the issue of the fifth freedom , Canada made a last-ditch effort to save the situation by proposing the first four freedoms , and one weekly round-trip flight that could be increased under an escalator clause of 65 per cent capacity and over . |
| 16 | He made a last effort to persuade the Sunderland Society to adopt the rules of a national union which he had spent some twelve months in preparing . |
| 17 | They are match-winners and we made a special effort to involve them . |
| 18 | Anger bubbled up inside her like a geyser set to gush , and she made a valiant effort to hold it in check . |
| 19 | And although Lucy made a valiant effort to control her quickening breath , the mad thumping of her heart and the heated excitement rising within her , it was a losing battle — and at last she gave herself up to the rapturous bliss of the moment . |
| 20 | Then , realising she was on the verge of helpless tears , she made a valiant effort to pull herself together . |
| 21 | Lucaroni made a conspicuous effort to remember . |
| 22 | She made a further effort to sit up , and groaned as a tide of pain engulfed her . |
| 23 | Thomson Holidays , Britain 's biggest package holiday company , this week made a fresh effort to stimulate bookings for winter holidays by cutting prices on 100,000 holidays . |
| 24 | Less than a third agreed they came by their fees easily , while half felt they made a positive effort to support and understand clients and 59 per cent that they respond very positively to requests for help and advice ( although these two groups of responses should be seen in the light of that ‘ distress purchase ’ attitude , where lawyers are unlikely to be negative when a client suddenly calls up offering business ) . |
| 25 | She made a gigantic effort to pull herself together . |
| 26 | She made a huge effort to calm herself . |
| 27 | More recently , the couple made a brave effort to live a normal life for the children . |
| 28 | Anger was getting close to being out of control , Briant suddenly realized , and he made a conscious effort to push it down . |
| 29 | Commentators noted that , throughout the negotiations , the USA made a conscious effort to distance itself from the proceedings . |
| 30 | Marie made a conscious effort to close her mouth , which she knew was hanging open . |