Example sentences of "[pron] could find [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | If you can find someone with a key to let you in , the interior of the chapel is said to be interestingly decorated , but the one time I was in Harambels I could find cows but no people . |
2 | ‘ Do you know where I could find details of box-office bookings ? ’ |
3 | I stopped two stout middle-aged women carrying laden shopping-bags and asked them if they knew where I could find rooms to rent . |
4 | ‘ More recently , ’ said Bob , ‘ you might have believed that bonuses actually were being offered to managers who could find ways of exploiting our customers . |
5 | The Irish are so enthusiastic about their golf that you could find crowds of unmanageable proportions if there was not this control . |
6 | But why did that lead you to imagine you could find drugs here ? ’ |
7 | Where you could find premises . |
8 | Apart from the holiday in Italy , they had not spent a whole night together more than half a dozen times in two years , and never at her home ; always when they could find excuses for them both to be in other cities . |
9 | But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases , and even as a contraceptive pill . |
10 | The King could say whatever he chose in the speech as long as he could find ministers to support it , and George wanted to say ‘ this bloody and expensive war ’ . |
11 | Charles swept the land twice with his armies , burning and killing wherever he could find victims , but the Saxons held out in the impenetrable forests and marshes , closing in behind the Frankish military movements . |