Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [not/n't] find " in BNC.
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| 31 | It sounded such a stilted way to put it , but he could n't find a different approach at the moment . |
| 32 | ‘ Well , what is wrong with him , ’ she tells me , ‘ is that because he could n't find heroin he used a substitute . |
| 33 | He could n't find an eleven year old kid to do it . |
| 34 | But each time he could n't find a way past Eric Nixon in the Tranmere goal . |
| 35 | Subsequently the council 's own officers told the inquiry that a pedestrian had been killed on Hollyhurst Road because he could n't find a safe place to cross , that ambulances struggle to get down Hollyhurst Road in emergencies , that residents cars are blocked in their drives and that buses have to drop off in the middle of the road . |
| 36 | Ironically , Fernandez was a brilliant lobbyist in Washington for more federal funds for New York schools , and he 'll be sorely missed , but he could n't find the time to play the politics of his own backyard . |
| 37 | Anyway , he could n't find anything . |
| 38 | It 's that that little he could n't find it . |
| 39 | He could n't find it . |
| 40 | Cos Ken said , first of all he could n't find any and he said oh he said perhaps I should 've bought them when I saw them , nine ninety nine . |
| 41 | He could n't find Wes in his room so to his mother said bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him , tell Wesley I need him tell Wesley I may be late , I 've something to do that can not wait . |
| 42 | He could n't find Wes in his room so to his mother said bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him , tell Wesley I need him tell Wesley I may be late , I 've something to do that can not wait . |
| 43 | Mhm , he could n't find it . |
| 44 | ‘ He knows he could not find an independent panel anywhere in Britain which would accept it is right to make an offer which is less than the rate of inflation to people who work in a service which is already underpaid and understaffed . ’ |
| 45 | If after that he could not find sureties for his future good behaviour , he was to be banished . |
| 46 | Yet this man found himself unloved , in that he demanded so much from his friends that he could not find a close , enduring relationship to satisfy him . |
| 47 | It had a purity about it which he could not find in any part of himself . |
| 48 | He offered to show me her photograph , but he could not find it . |
| 49 | He could not find any and he realised that it would be the voice of Dame Melba which rang out in the backstreets as he advertised the fact that he had a gramophone for sale . |
| 50 | His letter evoked the surprising reply that the Headmaster could not alter the Bible , and when Bayley wrote again to point out , reasonably enough , that he could not find the Articles in his copy of " the Authorized Version , Gurney replied frostily " I beg to decline all future disputing on the subject " . |
| 51 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 52 | Much as he wanted to , and much as he had been moved by her tears , he could not find it in him to forgive her . |
| 53 | When he came out of the prison-camp at the end of the war , he believed Rosie would be waiting for him and when he could not find her , I think it broke his heart . ’ |
| 54 | She finished by saying , ‘ And his only sorrow , for some months , has been that he could not find you , his former friend . ’ |
| 55 | " Allan McDugald presbytery officer reports he could not find Janet NcCalman having no constant residence . |
| 56 | " Allan McDugald presbytery officer reports he could not find Janet NcCalman having no constant residence . |
| 57 | Yet when Lukowiak looked for such a correlation he could not find it ; it seemed as if control of the strength of the reflex was not vested in any single cell of the abdominal ganglion , but was instead a property of the interactions between the ensemble of cells as a system . |
| 58 | When the told the Shah he could not find anyone to serve under him , the Shah was astonished and asked " Why " ? |
| 59 | He was already in so far he could not find his depth , and he wanted to turn and strike back for the shore , but , like an unpractised swimmer , found that the distance he had come was too great for him to return . |
| 60 | And if he could not find the Dwarves , then he was going to Sgurr Dearg and home . |