Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb mod] [not/n't] find " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't leave me here , where I ca n't find you ! |
| 2 | Exactly the same applies to applying columns to the text , although I can not find a way of having mixed numbers of columns without using frames — much like every DTP package I 've come across , as it happens . |
| 3 | If I ca n't find Mr Clancy , maybe David can coax it to work . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I ca n't find anywhere else I 'll come back |
| 5 | But if I ca n't find them , or anything else happens — I 'll phone home . |
| 6 | ‘ If I ca n't find your father and talk to him , I must ask you , my dear child — you are still a child , appearances to the contrary — to come home with us of your own accord . ’ |
| 7 | I mean I got to thinking if I ca n't find any I 'm dead . |
| 8 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 9 | There 's the gutter if I ca n't find a cheap hotel . |
| 10 | Er , if I ca n't find it right now , which |
| 11 | ‘ Over the last three or four years it has gradually got worse and if I ca n't find a cure I might have to give up distance running , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Yes , well if I ca n't find her , I will have to ring her up and say what hours is she doing here ? and I think that will be a way of finding out , but I 'm not coming before nine and if she 's not here at nine I will want to know why , what time she 's started . . |
| 13 | By this time I was convinced that nothing could work and that I would have to spend the rest of my life obsessed with food , hating my body , eating every day to the point of pain , and desperately frightened if I could n't find any laxatives or make myself sick . |
| 14 | If I could n't find a telephone in Sam 's big workshop I could drive Harry 's car to the nearest house … |
| 15 | If I could n't find it , I would have to wait for morning and steer north by my watch and the sun . |
| 16 | I may not always be able to offer a Danby or a Holmes ( Holmes is available as I write ) , but I should be considerably embarrassed if I could n't find a good view of the Gorge for a departing new graduate or a returning old one . |
| 17 | I I I was just thinking about a if I could n't find anything else a fifteen quid voucher for somewhere . |
| 18 | Cos I ca n't find it . |
| 19 | Eh , I do n't know , hold on , cos I ca n't find any carb , here are , there 's the baking powder |
| 20 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |
| 21 | No you ca n't cos I ca n't find it |
| 22 | cos I have n't got , got to contact him tomorrow , cos I could n't find his telephone number |
| 23 | No of course I have n't locked it up because I ca n't find my keys … |
| 24 | when we were at Carrie 's at the weekend I said you must tell me all the birthdays again , because I ca n't find them . |
| 25 | ‘ I only did n't ring last night because I could n't find you , sir . |
| 26 | Have Software City stopped trading because I could n't find their list of games in Issue 87 ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Because I could n't find anything under procedures about signing the job descriptions and indeed this persons specification total , I do n't think but I mean is that something like you audit it on , its that I am not clear who should award job specifications . |
| 29 | Because I can not find a fucking man . |
| 30 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |