Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] find [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll just find a scene where he does this . |
| 2 | " I 'll always find a job . " |
| 3 | Of course , I 'll never find an answer , because the one I love most is always the one I gaze on from the other . |
| 4 | He made me a fair offer in the circumstances and I even picked up another two pounds from one of the street traders for Charlie 's huge barrow ; but hard though I tried I could n't find a buyer for Granpa Charlie 's dreadful old nineteenth-century relic . |
| 5 | ‘ I could n't find a mirror I liked or that was even the right size , so I decided to have one handmade that would incorporate the colours and the theme of the living room , ’ said Geoff . |
| 6 | My dreams of training an owl had come to a standstill with Barny , and then another standstill when I could n't find a bird to buy . |
| 7 | I could n't find a way round it and when someone came in and said , ‘ that sounds great , but can you get me a pure sound where I can actually recognise what guitar is being played , whether it 's clean or distorted ? ’ |
| 8 | I had an extremely important appointment in town and I could n't find a parking space anywhere else . ’ |
| 9 | If I could n't find a telephone in Sam 's big workshop I could drive Harry 's car to the nearest house … |
| 10 | I could n't find a bus nowhere . |
| 11 | ‘ I could n't find the court , ’ he answered . |
| 12 | I pinned it to the corkboard with a red drawing pin and a light heart , and went upstairs again to change back into jodhpur boots to deal with the terrain and to pick up the map and the compass in case I could n't find the trail . |
| 13 | ‘ I could n't find the words to tell Dorothy , so I said it was a wrong number . |
| 14 | But I could n't find the words . |
| 15 | However of course you may not give your permission , for your words of you know , I could n't find the doors |
| 16 | ‘ I could n't find the kids but just as had to pull out the fire brigade arrived . ’ |
| 17 | I could n't find the microphone here . |
| 18 | ‘ I could n't find the Vitamin c , ’ he declares . |
| 19 | To begin with er I could n't find the light switch because my , my gaze was directed er at the people in the bed but then er I asked the man in the bed , where was the light switch and er he helped me back towards the area where the switch was and we eventually succeeded in getting the light on . |
| 20 | I was stricken with a love so vast that I could n't find the edges . |
| 21 | I know I could n't get the , I could n't find the key for the desk , no |
| 22 | Could n't find the door , I did n't , did n't put the light on , I could n't find the handle on the door . |
| 23 | I could have fixed it , but but I could n't find the thing |
| 24 | I could n't find the entrance to the restaurant that night for a start , and I spent the first half hour of the evening circling the outside of the building looking for a way in — in full view of all the diners . |
| 25 | It was perhaps as well I could n't find the author — During stage four there was vibration from the front wheels and the drive-shafts were due for replacement . |
| 26 | This was because at that time I could not find a Salome . |
| 27 | I could not find a piece big enough , so I bought two smaller pieces and took them back to the dacha . |
| 28 | I could not find a reason for leaving him , so I accompanied him in silence . |
| 29 | So it was something in my subconscious trying to push me from infantile dependency to maturation that brought it about that , in the dream , I could not find the inn again . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll come up this evenin' , ’ said Linda , ‘ and if 'er shoes want a polish , I fink I could find some spit for 'er , I expect I could easy find a penn'orth . ’ |