Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] not find a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took it regularly and pored over it every week for two months , but search and phone as I might , I could n't find a decent barn owl . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But I could n't find a bloody buyer . ’ ’ |
| 4 | Wading through the stream of overwhelmingly affectionate obituaries , I could not find a single phrase to support the view that Mr P ever had the slightest interest in the games that people play . |
| 5 | Ken 's last wish was that his coffin should be carried by six Athletico players but I could not find a single one of the bastards who would do it for less than fifty quid . |
| 6 | There 's the gutter if I ca n't find a cheap hotel . |
| 7 | I ca n't find a large box so you ca n't come . |
| 8 | I ca n't find an easy one can I ? |
| 9 | ‘ It 's a peculiar thing , Sally , but there is hardly any sort of a file on Harley and I ca n't find an actual signed contract . |
| 10 | Because I can not find a fucking man . |
| 11 | That she could not find a simple solution to the problems of women in marriage can be seen from two poems entitled ‘ Mira to Octavia ’ which advise a young woman who has fallen in love with an unsuitable man . |
| 12 | But she could n't find a good answer to Karen 's question . |
| 13 | I could n't help but notice that you could not find an appropriate country for Brian Mulroney , Canada 's prime minister . |
| 14 | No , it 's it 's used it 's used in situations where an abbreviation can be made , or er , er , erm , an abstract symbol can be made , but again , this this was used normally in print , even in printing of novels and sermons and erm , and important documents , right up , u you know , up and well into the nineteenth century , before it was considered that that was not formal enough , and that the word and had to be written out formally Are there any words in this section which you ca n't find a modern English version of easily ? |
| 15 | If you ca n't find a pleasing paper border , there are other alternatives : look amongst the fabric borders in soft furnishing departments . |
| 16 | If you think that 's easy , try running round the garden with a child on your shoulders and see how ungainly you become ( if you ca n't find a handy child , try a straw bale ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I expect there will be some critics who ca n't find a good word to say — but there always were and no bad review was ever able to dampen the success of the Carry Ons . ’ |
| 18 | Dance music changes fast , so you ca n't just stay the same , but the dance music audience has little patience with those who ca n't find a new trick that is just as magical as the old one . |
| 19 | They provided education , free education , free health services erm one of the modern communication system and ports erm and they ensure job for every Kuwaiti , so you will not find an unemployed Kuwaiti , as soon as he is able to do one job or another the Government provided the training for a large number of Kuwaiti to provide technical works . |
| 20 | For this reason , you will not find an audio dub button on an 8mm machine which has hi-fi FM sound . |
| 21 | ‘ You wo n't find a free room on the Isle tonight , I can tell you . |
| 22 | Psyche , so lovely that she can not find a mortal husband , is condemned to be the bride of Death . |
| 23 | If you can not find a good substitute , try using prepared ‘ sepia ’ watercolour , diluted with water , or use Mars brown dark pigment , which is easy to prepare with gum water for brush wash drawing . |
| 24 | If you can not find a Chinese brand , use a peanut oil from your local supermarket . |
| 25 | Abbey National considered using IV , but decided to move to compact discs : ‘ The problem was that we could n't find an IV system that did everything we wanted , ’ explains Julian Wakeley , manager for distance learning at Abbey National , ‘ also , we did n't need full motion video . ’ |
| 26 | But we shall not find a consistent position in which the tasks of biblical exegesis and scientific inquiry were no longer mutually relevant . |
| 27 | Are fishkeepers really so publicity hungry that they have to come up with quotations such as the Sun 's reported comment from Christine ‘ If we ca n't find a new home ’ ( for the Gourami ) ‘ we 'll just have to eat him . ’ |
| 28 | We ca n't find a national scheme for re-using Christmas cards , but many local charities run appeals . |
| 29 | At this point , the iteration has given no indication that a double root is involved ; however , this becomes apparent when we seek the row vector corresponding to cs : for all first minors of 1I — A vanish and we can not find a unique row vector . |
| 30 | So it is not possible to test Goody 's hypothesis since one can not find an isolated society on which to test the cognitive and other consequences of ‘ purely ’ oral communication . |