Example sentences of "he could not find [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dad was with him at the race , but he could n't find him and gave the grenade to a marshal . |
| 2 | He could n't find me . |
| 3 | He could n't find me . |
| 4 | He turned down the first street he came to , turned left , right , left again , he walked down a hill , along an alley , through a deserted square , but still he could n't find one anywhere . |
| 5 | The next time Jed drove through Westwood he looked for Failure , but he could n't find it . |
| 6 | He would have liked to hear the figure of his salary ; but just as he was nervously about to sound that note the little boy came back — the little boy Mrs Moreen had sent out of the room to fetch her fan ( 3 ) He came back without the fan , only with the casual observation that he could n't find it . |
| 7 | There is a little direct speech ( " And all overclouded by this , you know … " ) and indirect speech ( " the casual observation that he could n't find it " ) , but otherwise there are no clear signals to countermand the assumption that we are reading an impersonal narrator 's version of events . |
| 8 | The qualification " as it were " in ( 1 ) suggests Pemberton 's own inner voice ; " that he could n't find it " in ( 4 ) suggests the boy 's peremptory style of speech ; something really superior in the way of a resident tutor " ( 11 ) suggests the Moreens ' way of expressing their requirements in the style of genteel private advertisements . |
| 9 | He could n't find it . |
| 10 | It 's that that little he could n't find it . |
| 11 | He could n't find it . |
| 12 | Mhm , he could n't find it . |
| 13 | If he could n't find you , he wanted to know where you had been . |
| 14 | Unfortunately he could n't find anything large enough in his wife 's wardrobe . |
| 15 | Anyway , he could n't find anything . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | She finished by saying , ‘ And his only sorrow , for some months , has been that he could not find you , his former friend . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He offered to show me her photograph , but he could not find it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When the told the Shah he could not find anyone to serve under him , the Shah was astonished and asked " Why " ? |