Example sentences of "when they tried [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The redundant steelworker and a friend were returning home from a social club when they tried to stop a group of youngsters allegedly attacking traffic bollards . |
| 2 | BRAVE police were attacked when they tried to save a motorist from a 1,000 strong ‘ lynch mob ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ But you were already with Zacco when they tried to kill the demoiselle at Kalopetra , ’ the youth said . |
| 4 | Withering fire from the Davidians automatic weapons greeted the A T F men when they tried to enter the building . |
| 5 | Lothar 's supporters implicitly recognised this when they tried to postpone the battle 's political impact by spreading rumours that Charles had been killed and Louis wounded . |
| 6 | It is small wonder that Keynesians stood in perplexed amazement when they tried to relate the new classical theory of unemployment to the unemployment rates which were being experienced in the late 1970s . |
| 7 | But when they tried to disarm the other with spray foam , it went off and police and dogs were called out . |
| 8 | When they tried to make an arrest , the police were subject to vicious abuse and assault . |
| 9 | The declining fortunes of both racing and bookmaking came into direct collision when they tried to determine an appropriate levy for the next fiscal year . |
| 10 | RAIDERS dropped a massive clanger when they tried to steal a half-ton bronze bell for scrap . |
| 11 | He started in political life as he meant to go on , sympathising with ‘ Action Francaise ’ and making his first political gesture at the age of 26 as one of the threatening , right-wing mob who were driven back by police gunfire when they tried to storm the Chamber of Deputies in February 1934 . |