Example sentences of "[unc] efforts [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every morning Vic drives over the flattened site of his Gran 's house and passes at chimney-pot level the one in which he himself grew up , where his widower father still stubbornly lives on in spite of all Vic 's efforts to persuade him to move , like a sailor clinging to the rigging of a sinking ship — buffeted , deafened and choked by the thundering torrent of traffic thirty yards from his bedroom window . |
| 2 | Zoe 's efforts to push him into unsuitable employment had been annoying and resistible . |
| 3 | Huddersfield 's winger Billy Smith was felled on the edge of ( some said just outside ) the area , and he drove the ball home from the spot , despite the goalkeeper 's efforts to distract him by jumping up and down . |
| 4 | Several months before , he had been almost sleek , thanks to fourteen-mile walks and his wife 's efforts to police him at the table . |
| 5 | But with the Dalai Lama , who fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule , now honoured with a Nobel Peace Prize not merely for his religious work but for ‘ his struggle for the liberation of Tibet ’ , China 's efforts to keep him and his cause in quarantine will be all the more difficult . |