• to commission, to constitute
• to bend every effort, to do one's best, to do one's level best, to put one's best leg foremost, to try one's hardest
• to come near to, to come near to doing sg
• to make no bones about sg
• to lose no time in doing sg
• to make a vow to do sg, to take a vow to do sg
• to resolve on doing sg, to resolve to do sg
• to make a vow to do sg, to take a vow to do sg
• to take it into one's head to do sg
• to leave nothing undone that might help
• to leave nothing undone that might help
• to take it into one's head to do sg