| Our organisation has been trying to close our current account and transfer these funds to another bank, but to no avail. |
|
| In the following manhunt, police used aboriginal trackers and aircraft to comb an area stretching thousands of miles, but to no avail. |
|
| His parents tried all avenues of speech therapy, hypnotherapy and psychoanalysis to no avail. |
|
| The hapless Sailor briefly stopped the onslaught when he scored three minutes later, but to no avail. |
|
| Our hero comes for his interview, in the middle of the day, and tries the left door, to no avail. |
|
| The crowd tried to lift the home player at the start of the third but it was to no avail. |
|
| Her mother always sided with Jerry these days, so arguing would be to no avail. |
|
| Four years ago, when Metrowater decided to construct two of its water distribution stations there, activists did protest but to no avail. |
|
| I have tried using mothballs, blocks of cedar wood and regularly vacuuming the egg cases but to no avail. |
|
| She continued to rip off the obstinate gnashing steel contraption to no avail. |
|
| One of Raiter's friends quickly administered CPR and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but to no avail. |
|
| I too have searched high and low for an English translation of the Thai Highway Code, to no avail. |
|
| On Sunday I tried to shake the flu with naartjies and black tea, but to no avail. |
|
| Or rather the network nabobs think they appreciate him, but he's crossed the pond twice to discuss a possible career-making TV deal, to no avail. |
|
| Residents in Rawcliffe have raised the issue of the unpleasant smells for years to no avail. |
|
| She studied them closely, trying to read gestures and lips, but to no avail. |
|
| Magicians and sorcerers of every kind were desperately trying to control the magical outbreak but to no avail. |
|
| I sat at the vanity table tugging a brush through my limp hair, to no avail. |
|
| My other half and I are constantly trying to persuade each other to try something new, but to no avail. |
|
| When I returned, she was feverishly trying to change the channel to no avail, though her stairlift seemed to have acquired a life of its own. |
|
|
|
| At first I couldn't think why the car had simply stalled and tried to restart it several times to no avail. |
|
| He parried the attacks easily, slashing back with his weapon but to no avail. |
|
| Aiden sat up abruptly, breathing somewhat heavily as he shook the last images of his dream out of his mind, but to no avail. |
|
| The affront of water divining to the latter's modernist pretensions led to foreign experts being pressed into the fray, but to no avail. |
|
| Trying to find an explanation, I consulted several modern textbooks to no avail. |
|
| My frequent open letters to the Okeford Gazette have likewise come to no avail. |
|
| The Allerton residents filled in countless petitions against the closure, to no avail. |
|
| Fed up with a wasted journey, I decided to treat myself to a cream tea at the cafe next door, to no avail. |
|
| As the game went on they did adapt to the conditions and raised their game accordingly but to no avail. |
|
| He said that he and his fellow councillors had been pressing the county council to install speed ramps at Manor Road, but to no avail. |
|
| We also tried to follow it and knocked on doors to see whose it was, also to no avail. |
|
| Mr Diamond has been in contact with numerous council representatives in an effort to rectify the situation, to no avail. |
|
| More recently a friend of mine was trying to find other student emcees to put on an event, but to no avail. |
|
| I waited for more information with reference to national and community programs but to no avail. |
|
| With a brief, feeble attempt she tried to wriggle out of what bound her wrists, but to no avail. |
|
| The trade unions have made repeated warnings to Railtrack about the use of casual labour on the lines but to no avail. |
|
| The life support machine clicked about attempting to resuscitate him, but to no avail. |
|
| The Australian Workers Union who represent production line employees of Ion in Adelaide have raised a stink about this arrangement, to no avail. |
|
| And that was just hard cheese for particle physicists, and for many years the best people worked on quantum gravity to no avail. |
|
| Instead numbers were crunched, complicated scenarios considered, strategies sorted, deals attempted and all to no avail. |
|
|
|
| I myself have long hoped to be a minion to Cruella Deville, but sadly my youthful dreams have been to no avail. |
|
| We have written asking for councillors to visit to inspect the damage and poor state of repairs, to no avail. |
|
| Police say an extensive search was carried out immediately but to no avail. |
|
| He said he heard someone shout the man had got to the bank side, and used some bike lights to search for him, but to no avail. |
|
| Last-ditch efforts to avert war in the second week of March were to no avail. |
|
| The pair went on holiday to Brazil recently, apparently to give their love lives a boost but to no avail. |
|
| For the past two years, members have tried to scare the deer off, to no avail. |
|
| I have tried various remedies, including cutting the plant right back, but to no avail. |
|
| My protestations about the lack of evidence of benefit in such procedures were to no avail. |
|
| Since then he has been passed back and forth between the NHS and Inland Revenue but to no avail. |
|
| We have got a petition, written letters, been to meetings, but to no avail as they just do not listen. |
|
| A search party had been sent out the previous evening, to no avail, so they'd gone out again at dawn. |
|
| After a few frantic phone calls to no avail, the decision to ad-lib was made. |
|
| Mr Holmes said he and three friends immediately launched their own boat and searched the area but to no avail. |
|
| Cheska quickly gripped her fathers hands trying to pull herself free of his grip, but to no avail. |
|
| Police vans were pelted with bottles and cans, and speakers tried to calm the crowd, but to no avail. |
|
| Several years ago, I wrote to the local press concerning the need to teach Spanish as our first foreign language in all schools, but to no avail. |
|
| I danced my hardest and flailed my arms as wildly as I could, but it was all to no avail. |
|
| What her true intention was with this design, playgoers hypothesize to no avail. |
|
| Attempts were made to extinguish the flames with a fire hose from an adjacent building, but to no avail. |
|
|
|
| He walked over toward the stairs of the fire escape and tried pushing them down again but to no avail. |
|
| Sweat matted his dark hair to his forehead and he swatted at it when it fell into his face but to no avail. |
|
| The baroness encouraged her daughter's friendship with the princess, hoping to improve her status, but to no avail. |
|
| Eagle-eyed residents have been craning their necks skyward to catch a glimpse of the beaked bandit but, so far, to no avail. |
|
| Scientists have been trying for half a century to figure out a way to get us there on at least a semi-permanent basis, to no avail. |
|
| I have changed the electronic control unit sensors, fuse box and relays to no avail. |
|
| Many cold compresses, an elevated leg and all manner of other cures have been to no avail. |
|
| This is one step too far for Josey, who takes her grievances to higher places, but to no avail. |
|
| The soldier tried to shove past the innkeeper, but to no avail. |
|
| According to the friend, Brinsley rang his ex-girlfriend, an Air Force reservist named Shaneka Thompson, to no avail. |
|
| The left had long tried to resist it through a diverse mix of organizations, devoted to different goals, and all to no avail. |
|
| Both have nerve-wracked parents who tell them to sit still every 30 seconds, to no avail. |
|
| Marchildon starved herself and exercised relentlessly to try to lose the required two centimeters, but to no avail. |
|
| She was rushed into hospital, where doctors tried to stop the labour to no avail and baby Adam was brought into the world over three months premature. |
|
| She spends half an hour rootling through her filing cabinet looking for that letter the previous house owners sent her about such things, to no avail. |
|
| The group banged on the door to alert the sleeping occupants to no avail. |
|
| We waited for this building work to commence but it was all to no avail. |
|
| She was doing a sterling job of trying to wake him up but to no avail. |
|
| I keep nagging him to get over it and get on with posting but to no avail. |
|
| I walked backwards and forwards in front of them repeatedly as though someone were pressing the rewind button on a video machine, but to no avail. |
|
|
|
| I try to quieten her screeches of laughter by shaking her, to no avail. |
|
| He once hinted he buried her in a swampy bird sanctuary on the island, which her father dredged to no avail. |
|
| Mathilde subsequently tried, to no avail, to encourage him to use one of her dramas as the basis for an opera, or at least to set her poems to music. |
|
| He lobbied to keep the Free German Youth open to many different kinds of young people, but to no avail. |
|
| He argued that titi was stunning and had a magnificent presence, but to no avail. |
|
| This woke her husband, who questioned and tried to console her, to no avail. |
|
| There were skid marks where she applied her brakes to no avail. |
|
| He also tried to find an upside to his situation, but to no avail. |
|
| His brother spluttered all the way to the table but to no avail. |
|
| The collection languished for years in Harrison's steam boiler factory, and Catlin again lobbied the U.S. government to purchase his Indian collection to no avail. |
|
| The incident caused a traffic jam along the Banda Aceh-Medan route as police officers conducted a sweep of the area hoping to apprehend the attackers, but to no avail. |
|
| I am plagued with boils and have tried hot compresses to no avail. |
|
| Anastasia reached behind her to no avail as she felt two globulous trickles of blood exit a pair of widening gashes where the base of he skull met the summit of her spine. |
|
| While in hospital they tried to detox her of alcohol but to no avail. |
|
| However, it was to no avail as about three laps later he was sidelined with mechanical gremlins while his team mate Ralf Schumacher spun off and beached himself in the sand. |
|
| I spray it with Greenfly Blackfly Killer to no avail as the buds fail to open. |
|
| The States of Zeeland had tried to convince the States of Holland to take on the responsibility for the New Netherland province, but to no avail. |
|
| Kublai tried every medical treatment available, from Korean shamans to Vietnamese doctors, and remedies and medicines, but to no avail. |
|
| Innocent set a commission in place to try to convince John to change his mind, but to no avail. |
|
| They established an association to persuade their fellow unionists to reconsider the border, but to no avail. |
|
|
|
| A faction hostile to Macleod pursued the charges in church courts, to no avail. |
|
| However it was to no avail since much of Scotland was still an unstable environment. |
|
| Without acknowledging that he was aware of the precise nature of the plot, Garnet attempted to dissuade Catesby from his course, to no avail. |
|
| I've tried dating agencies, singles bars and discos, local papers and blind dates, all to no avail. |
|
| Whittle met with Cripps to object personally to the nationalisation efforts and how they were being handled, but to no avail. |
|
| Each day he attempted to wrinkle and odorise the shirt, but it was to no avail. |
|
| The pope had sent emissaries, including Gregory, asking for assistance, to no avail. |
|
| A farmer's son, Thorkel, pleads to Earl Einar to lower the taxes, but to no avail. |
|
| The Swedish king gave them men to help them claim the young boy, but to no avail. |
|
| The League tried to enforce economic sanctions upon Italy, but to no avail. |
|
| He spent much of the following night attempting to find his way out, but to no avail. |
|
| Iceland demanded Britain allow it to trade with Germany, to no avail. |
|
| The two kings would hold conferences at the foot of an elm tree near Gisors, which was so positioned that it would overshadow each monarch's territory, but to no avail. |
|
| They tried citronella to fend off the mosquitos, to no avail. |
|
| He does not attempt to explain racial differences, or to debunk the concept of race, he says, because it has been thoroughly debunked many times to no avail. |
|
| I've tried the usual remedies, including old wives' remedies like cold nettle soup, wolf spider syrup and crushed virgin tigers' tails, all to no avail. |
|
| Afonso de Albuquerque attempted to intercede on Cabral's behalf and on 2 December 1514 asked Manuel I to forgive him and allow his return to court, but to no avail. |
|
| Dan Scovel scored on his debut for the hosts, but to no avail. |
|
| They cattle prodded people trying to get them to move, but to no avail. |
|
