Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] could [adv] find [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But not too concerned that he could n't find time to drop into Simon Butcher 's to have his picture taken . ’ |
| 2 | At least now , today , she could ease his suffering , help him forget Madeleine for a little while , make him see that he could still find happiness of a kind without her . |
| 3 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 4 | ‘ I 've got a tiny head and I could never find hats to fit . |
| 5 | If she could not find Charles in the hotel , she would be obliged to seek him within the conference building . |
| 6 | So we we , we turned down this road , through the village and we could n't find Monkey Island . |
| 7 | As he stared at her he actually did feel as if he were in short pants , and he could n't find words to answer her . |
| 8 | But you could n't find Connie either . ’ |
| 9 | The reason I started writing tunes was because I could n't find tunes that set up the kind of guitar playing I wanted to do as an improviser . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , what is wrong with him , ’ she tells me , ‘ is that because he could n't find heroin he used a substitute . |
| 11 | When I could n't find Jake . |
| 12 | Using what little facts as she could chronologically find Dei then placed a perspective on this through ’ reading about the time she lived in and finding out about women 's lives in the 17th century Rome . |