You know it was a real effort for me to remember all those things.

And who's the one man who has made any real effort at getting to know me since I got here?

And things just fell into place for me, without any real effort on my part.

Sometimes, he made a real effort to stay out of trouble.

But it took a real effort of will to care.

I make a real effort to get 8 or 9 hours of sleep in every 24-hour period.

She had needed to make a real effort to get up today at all.

I made no real effort to go, nor any more to stay.

She made a real effort to look at it from his point of view.

It took real effort to watch him walk away from me.