Example sentences of "['s] efforts [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |
| 2 | Never was much interested in anything except sex , despite my wife 's efforts to civilise me . |
| 3 | I felt the miserable decline of my happiness as I imagined the girl 's innocence and the futility of her mother 's efforts to save her from a cruel death . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One could not doze easily as one had done in Matt Stukely 's day for there was something too insistently personal in this new parson 's efforts to reach them ; yet they had remained stolidly unreached till now when the fervour of his exhortation spoke to them as with an angel 's tongue . |
| 6 | Zoe 's efforts to push him into unsuitable employment had been annoying and resistible . |
| 7 | Some , such as Sharley McLean , now in her late sixties , have already survived Hitler 's efforts to silence them . |
| 8 | For all the Chancellor 's efforts to tell us things will come right in time , it will take real , hard evidence that the deficit is coming down to protect Mr Lawson from the bitter mercies of the markets . |
| 9 | The ideal structure is created by plant and animal life in the soil : man 's efforts to produce it mechanically are , at best , a poor substitute for nature . |
| 10 | Yet despite staff 's efforts to orchestrate it , participation was low ; users preferred social rather than didactic activities . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A resurgence of the rebellion among the nomadic Tuareg communities of northern Mali , and the army 's efforts to contain it , had become a source of growing concern to the government and international human rights organizations . |
| 13 | Several months before , he had been almost sleek , thanks to fourteen-mile walks and his wife 's efforts to police him at the table . |
| 14 | But its formula of the Son 's ‘ consubstantiality ’ with the Father was slow to gain general acceptance , despite Constantine 's efforts to impose it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She is a stiff bundle of rags , arching this way and that , legs clamped together against his knees ' efforts to prise them apart , arms straining him back up off her body . |