Example sentences of "[pos pn] efforts [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the time has come to admit that in my efforts to explain this one valid point I may have misled the reader in other ways . |
| 2 | It was from there that I began my efforts to enquire into the operation of the judicial system in the area . |
| 3 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 4 | Since the conversation was outpacing my efforts to note the salient points , I gave up trying and used the little tape-recorder I had brought with me . |
| 5 | Yes , I suppose I do feel proud of my efforts to help Doctor Who 's production . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Leave me alone ! ’ she screamed when her efforts to evade him proved useless and a pair of iron hands fastened on her arms . |
| 7 | Although unfortunately details of the projects are tantalizingly hard to ascertain , at least two attempts were made after 1888 by the Edinburgh Typographical Society to set up a women 's union , The first , in the late 1880s , is referred to only in the retrospective " statement on the Female Question " , published in 1904 ; Miss Black of London [ who must have been Clementina Black ] a lady who was well-known for her efforts to improve the social condition of her sex , offered to make an endeavour to organise the female compositors in Edinburgh , with a view to remedying the evils complained of by the journeymen . |
| 8 | In a voice that shook in spite of her efforts to control it , she asked if she could see Mrs Blessington-Dalrymple . |
| 9 | She was indomitable in her determination and tireless in her efforts to serve the women and children who were her special charge . |
| 10 | Despite her subsequent burning of nearly 300 committed Protestants , her efforts to reimpose Roman Catholicism were ultimately doomed by the brevity of her reign and her failure to produce a Catholic heir . |
| 11 | His movements were far too quick and self-assured for her efforts to succeed . |
| 12 | Before 823 , there is no mention of Judith 's influence : assorted scraps of evidence thereafter attest her efforts to bolster her own position by collaborating closely ( some said , too closely ) with her husband 's chief counsellors . |
| 13 | PEOPLE 'S champion Gwen Lamb is battling on after a setback in her efforts to recoup £30,000 she lost in a bank crash . |
| 14 | Despite all her efforts to ignore it the sensation lingered on to torment her long after the contact had been broken . |
| 15 | So she had no idea , when her antics were effective , how she was using herself up in her efforts to ward off her disappearance from the world , in her girlish desire to please . |
| 16 | His haste gave her an uncanny feeling he was trying to escape from an unseen force — or perhaps from herself — and in her efforts to reach his side she panted breathlessly , ‘ Do you intend breaking into a gallop — ? ’ |
| 17 | Olivia , who likes her sleep , soon developed a great loathing for our morning visitors , but all her efforts to drive them away and apart had little success , and spectacularly failed to calm the passions of the energetically copulating birds . |
| 18 | With a massive effort she tried to fight him off , but he had locked his hands behind her neck , and all her efforts to squirm out of his grasp were useless . |
| 19 | If your child does something you do not like , such as losing her temper too easily , you may increase her ability to think first and hold her temper by penalizing her consistently for failing to do so ; in this way you are providing an ‘ incentive ’ for her efforts to keep her cool . |
| 20 | Think of breasts and it 's always Miss Windsor and her efforts to keep everything hidden . |
| 21 | I am a pensioner and applaud her efforts to change this sick world . |
| 22 | He admired her efforts to make a little money by freelance writing , whilst awaiting a divorce from the husband who had deserted her . |
| 23 | ‘ She does n't care if she pushes everyone , including you , aside in her efforts to achieve it either , ’ Myra said with disgust . |
| 24 | The prince used to tease her about her efforts to get people taught to read and write ; it became a household joke , Constanza joining with her father , though she herself was much taken by Fabian Socialism as a girl . |
| 25 | It was usually about Terry 's sister , Peggy Say , and her efforts to get him home . |
| 26 | She bucked and reared in fury in her efforts to get free . |
| 27 | Or had her efforts to get to the bottom of the rue Roland mystery taken an unexpected toll on her ? |
| 28 | She tossed it aside and renewed her efforts to contact Georgie and perhaps learn more about the murder . |
| 29 | She bowed her head , moaning with pleasure , ceasing her efforts to pull away . |
| 30 | Dougal resisted her efforts to pull her hand away from his . |