Example sentences of "when i tried " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made tea , my ungloved hand sticking to the Trangia when I tried to move it from its snowdrift . |
| 2 | My voice had nearly gone when I tried to order a brandy . |
| 3 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 4 | Otley was looking the other way as if he did n't know me when I tried again with a pleasant , motherly woman with a shopping basket full of goodies . |
| 5 | When I tried to say something , she told me that my turn would come up later , and there was a strict order for speaking . |
| 6 | When I tried asking the girls I interviewed about them I was often met with a shrug , or a short ‘ no problem ’ reply , as if periods were nothing at all , of no significance , and certainly none to a book on looks , fashion and body-image . |
| 7 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
| 8 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 9 | Then she spoke to the mirror , ‘ There were times when he was drunk , when I tried to take advantage of him , thinking he might forget to use one of those … things ! ’ |
| 10 | When I tried this sort of stuff before , I had one flight in a sort of plywood packing-case painted the colour of the blue stuff they used to paint on your balls when you got crabs and spent the rest of the day hanging around with a pack of strangle-voiced bores in bobble hats . |
| 11 | I recall the situation all the more clearly because , when I tried to market those rabbits , the dealer thought there was something wrong with them . |
| 12 | When I tried to re-introduce the zero foods my problems were milk and wheat , with milk the main culprit behind my symptoms . |
| 13 | The same was true when I tried recording with the ME-6 through a Fostex desk onto cassette . |
| 14 | One slight annoyance came when I tried to procure the sound of a valve amp just on the edge of distortion , like an AC30 or a Vibroverb just going into mild overload . |
| 15 | My left arm was dripping with blood , and when I tried to raise it only the top part moved , the rest hung limply by my side . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I suppose now that you 've dragged it out of Edna , I shall have to say that I remember a man and my mother in a yellow frock looking unusually pretty and being angry that they would n't take any notice of me when I tried to get their attention . |
| 17 | I could n't pick the fish up because they were slippery and eluded my grasp , and when I tried to stand up I 'd slip back again amongst the icy cold debris . |
| 18 | When I tried it , it was so beautiful , I knew I could try it just once ’ |
| 19 | When I tried it , it was so beautiful that I knew exactly why people keep doing it . |
| 20 | Three months ago I purchased a Waterlife Nitrate Test kit from my local water garden centre and when I tried to use it consistently got a zero reading . |
| 21 | When I tried to place a bet at the Tote at Cheltenham not long ago , I found myself behind a queue of Irish priests . |
| 22 | I planned an overnight stay at the Drumrunie Hotel , marked on the map and ten miles along the road , but when I tried to telephone to book a room , the operator told me that the hotel had recently been burnt down . |
| 23 | I was already shivering with cold , but when I tried to walk faster my heart pounded unpleasantly . |
| 24 | The dried blood from my nose was smeared all over the front of my mouth and it cracked when I tried to move my lips . |
| 25 | When I tried it on in Harvey Nichols it looked all right , but now I see it out here I realize how stupid and childish it looks . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ No , ’ he said , when I tried to pay him . |
| 27 | I still had an enormous block when I tried to think of John as a hostage . |
| 28 | When I tried I found I could n't , but Bri took pity on me and we spent hours playing cards . |
| 29 | Years later , when I tried to talk of this , |
| 30 | When I tried printing pictures with plenty of tones and shades , some faint vertical bars did appear , but most people probably wo n't want to use it for heavy graphics output . |