Example sentences of "attempts [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can even indirectly , but effectively , interfere with the legal owner 's attempts to enforce his legal rights by action in the Common Law Courts . |
| 2 | One deduction we might draw from this is that the examples of Anderson 's modesty noted above , when seen in the context of his more pompous utterances and these attempts to preserve his academic credibility , are more likely to be viewed simply as superficial politeness strategies than as being genuinely meant . |
| 3 | The first part of the poem deals with Sir Walter 's attempts to impose his mastery on the natural environment . |
| 4 | He stroked the side of her face with it , amused by her attempts to catch his fingers in her teeth , teasing her with it , darting little touches here and there on her lips . |
| 5 | After unsuccessful attempts to sell his enormous stock of prints through public auctions he retired to his wife 's house , suitably named ‘ The Retreat ’ . |
| 6 | This , and the free labour conflict conducted by the Shipping Federation , troubled him less , however , than the Federation 's malicious attempts to destroy his credibility and that of the union by maligning his character and labelling him a criminal . |
| 7 | This hooking action is important because it interferes with the opponent 's attempts to free his arm and keeps him closed off for a longer period . |
| 8 | Despite all attempts to fulfil his artistic ideals by being in London and in contract with all the leading painters of the time , he found it strangely frustrating . |
| 9 | His name has been moderately conjured with by British academics , but there have been few attempts to systematize his work for the classroom , as has happened in the United States . |
| 10 | The QC also considered ‘ his attempts to put his life in order and adopt a more responsible and sincere approach to his affairs ’ . |
| 11 | He had made many attempts to put his arms around me , but I had always evaded him . |
| 12 | How like a politician 's were his constant attempts to justify his own record ( for example , his decision to sign a pact with Stalin and to admit the " separatists " into his governments in the mid-1940s ) or to claim credit for " successes " ( such as the exclusion of the communist ministers in 1947 ) which belonged , in fact , to others . |
| 13 | In the introduction , Blake skims over various stylistic approaches and attempts to justify his own . |
| 14 | The problem is that Osborne 's attempts to underline his point by the ‘ subversive ’ use of Mozartian instruments ( horns tuned in semitonally clashing keys , Anton Stadler 's clarinets performing Stravinskian arabesques ) result in music which I found neither diverting nor in itself particularly thought-provoking . |
| 15 | She saw his attempts to wish his own brand of authority on to the production as little more than temperamental interference , and , in turn , told him how he should play his scenes . |
| 16 | He proved particulary adept at evading all attempts to elicit his views on the constitutionality of abortion . |
| 17 | McCowen 's middle class Brit worries about his mum and attempts to keep his stiff upper lip from trembling by reliving tennis star Virginia Wade 's Wimbledon triumph . |
| 18 | Mr Bashir said : ‘ These were two very desperate attempts to save his long marriage and long relationship . ’ |
| 19 | Very sensibly , Benny stands perfectly still while the psychopath reaches up on tiptoe and attempts to screw his earhole . |
| 20 | He ignored Tessa 's many attempts to change his notorious toupee . |
| 21 | After a few feeble and dispirited attempts to rotate his shoulders in a circular movement , or raise and lower his arms , he subsided with a groan and lay slumped until the nurse helped him up again and the torture continued . |
| 22 | His good fortune in surviving subsequent assassination attempts increased his belief in his divine protection . |
| 23 | A passionate improver , his vast correspondence chronicles his attempts to develop his estates and to improve the lot of their inhabitants . |
| 24 | After the society refused his application he also failed in attempts to have his case taken up by the Building Societies Association and the insurance ombudsman . |
| 25 | Since then Lord Aldington has reached separate agreement with the other defendant and Count Tolstoy 's attempts to have his damages overturned have failed . |
| 26 | Taking no notice of her feeble attempts to bat his hands away , Guy pulled Isabel into his arms , holding her tight , murmuring to her , soothing her . |
| 27 | ‘ Quiet ! ’ he spat , ignoring her futile attempts to push his hand away . |
| 28 | James Bond ran a similar gamut of attempts to bring his life to a halt . |
| 29 | In 1826 , all other attempts to resume his military career having failed , he obtained a lieutenancy in the Royal African Colonial Corps . |
| 30 | Jones had been cast for the minor but useful role of leading a small diversionary force of ships to the north of England and Scotland , but his attempts to make his ships ready for sea involved him in constant arguments with the French authorities , and his reputation as a tyrannical captain made it hard to find a crew . |