Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] not find [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't find Basil at the prize-giving . |
| 2 | I could n't find freezer space that 's why I |
| 3 | When I could n't find Jake . |
| 4 | you were n't in and I could n't , I could n't find telephone number to give him a ring , I 've just got , I 've just got through to Directory Enquiries , got the number , just gon na dial it and gran says Annette 's home . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I tell you what I could n't find Elaine |
| 8 | ‘ After school , I could not find Mummy outside . |
| 9 | They said outright what I could not find words for . |
| 10 | And I ca n't find Feargal … ’ |
| 11 | Yeah my earrings turned up I ca n't find cap . |
| 12 | H — ‘ I ca n't find time to work my way through that ! ’ |
| 13 | I ca n't find time for you , |
| 14 | I ca n't find Linda 's |
| 15 | I ca n't find fulfilment in peeling carrots , and I do n't thrill to the sound of the supermarket trolley — except in New York where I 'm bewitched by the all-night delis . |
| 16 | His son James said : ‘ I ca n't find words to express what I feel about the people who did this . |
| 17 | If I ca n't find Mr Clancy , maybe David can coax it to work . ’ |
| 18 | Well I ca n't find Tim 's trousers at all . |
| 19 | I tell you what I ca n't do , I ca n't find , I ca n't find Charles ' birthday on me calendar |
| 20 | I can not find words to thank them enough . |
| 21 | However , I can not find authority that the decision of a doctor as to the existence or refusal of consent is sufficient protection , if the law subsequently decides otherwise . |
| 22 | If she could not find Charles in the hotel , she would be obliged to seek him within the conference building . |
| 23 | She could not find words to convey what she had seen , any more than she could say aloud " Pee-Po … " and the rest . |
| 24 | She could n't find Nick 's face flannel by its flickering light and he would n't use hers . |
| 25 | She could n't find Ana anywhere either . |
| 26 | When she parked at the office she could n't find reverse . |
| 27 | Looking back to the time when she could n't find reverse on her company car , Alison contrasted this with her new job responsibilities : ‘ Now I 'm driving over 2,500 miles a month , much of it spent on the M25 . |
| 28 | She could n't find coriander , only English parsley . |
| 29 | Military leaders in the sixteenth century who could not find wars to fight elsewhere might turn on their own sovereigns and fight at home ; there had been some decades of civil war in England after the English had been driven out of France in the middle of the fifteenth century . |
| 30 | The homework was interesting and demanded more investigation and some discussion with parents : she - the teacher — provided some useful clues for those who could not find names in an encyclopaedia . |