Example sentences of "[pers pn] could find a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomorrow , if I could find a better medium , I would throw away cinema . |
| 2 | How I wish I could find a master like you , tough and strong . |
| 3 | He could hardly tap them on the arm and yell : ‘ Can you tell me where I could find a child prostitute ? ’ |
| 4 | What should have been a simple review looked like it was about to turn into techno-confusion when the owner 's manual stated I could find a hook-up diagram on page 42 , and it was n't there . |
| 5 | ‘ I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not unreal , ’ wrote Shaw . |
| 6 | ‘ If I could find a few grand . ’ |
| 7 | When Sam Phillips , founder of Sun Records and ‘ creator ’ of Elvis Presley , said , ‘ If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel , I could make a billion dollars ’ ( quoted in Hopkins 1971 : 66 ) , the twin motivations , artistic and commercial , were not separated or separable . |
| 8 | If only I could find a masseuse as good as Pauline in London , I would be happy ! |
| 9 | ‘ I was also thinking , ’ he whispered softly into her ear , ‘ that I could find a secluded spot and make love with you right now , if such a thing as a secluded spot existed in this place . ’ |
| 10 | He always puts up with Lennie , and is there whenever Lennie is feeling ashamed or unwanted and produces his ‘ I could just go to the hills and ’ I could find a cave , and pet mice ’ speech . |
| 11 | I rolled out of bed and , feeling I was doomed to the state of hei-hei , or eternal sloth and uselessness , I wondered whether I could find a pair of unstiff socks . |
| 12 | Okay so that 's how you , that 's how you 'd do three quarters you 'd say well I could find a quarter of it and then cut it all up into quarters and then I 'll take three pieces , three quarters . |
| 13 | Well , no , not really Ma'am , there were still charts to plot , and observations to send to Group , and instruments to read — and the unspoken implication , ever present , was that we were Grade 2 technicians , and if she wanted to make up the numbers on parade surely she could find a few more pen-pushers in nine-to-five jobs ? |
| 14 | It was bad enough having to sleep in the steerage — lying on the floor wherever she could find a place , where cockroaches and rats could run over her while she slept . |
| 15 | She would drop to the surface of the station — its mass generated enough gravity to pull her — and , if she could find a suitable maintenance terminal , she would jack in her wrist processor and try to manipulate the station 's doors through the interface . |
| 16 | If two people had some disagreement she could find a way of softening that situation . |
| 17 | Cancer was diagnosed only eight months earlier , and Madeleine held a strong conviction she could find a way of helping in her own healing . |
| 18 | As soon as she could find a convenient place to do so , she turned the car and headed back towards Hallborough . |
| 19 | She would go down to the club and do some keep fit for an hour , then have a fruit juice lunch and see if she could find a game of tennis . |
| 20 | Before she could find a rejoinder to what , despite the smile , she felt sure was a snide remark he went on , ‘ If you 're ready to leave now I 'll take you back to your hotel . ’ |
| 21 | But she could find a job and a furnished flat , and then she 'd be free , free to give herself to Nicolo as his lover … |
| 22 | I think if you can now , it may be that you could find a sort of semi-structured thing like the Richmond Fellowship . |
| 23 | You could find a nice Jewish man … maybe a youngish widower , in his late thirties or forties . |
| 24 | If you wanted to be different , you could find a big city at the end of the railroad and be different there . |
| 25 | ‘ I dare say , sir , that you could find a ‘ friend ’ in Piccadilly . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You know , Mandy , I think you could find a bright spot in the middle of a black hole . ’ |
| 27 | If we could find a good home , you would at least be warm . ’ |
| 28 | Of course , this alone did n't meet the cost of the hats or the debt owing , but she said if we could find a buyer for such as this it would , in a way , alleviate some of the debt … ’ |
| 29 | If it were I am sure we could find a way to beat it , such as having a weaker link to the ‘ feeder so that it will break away when snagged . |
| 30 | If we could find a heightened sense of beauty in the world of a prison camp , I thought , surely we could find it in the great free world of which we dreamed ? |