Example sentences of "[pron] could find [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Maybe , she thought , her mind half-frozen slush that squeezed ideas apart , maybe I could find Spiderglass even in the fog .
2 I sauntered about for an hour before I could find Sir James Macdonald …
3 ‘ … = where I could find Mr John Challow , ’ Ianthe said .
4 But she had been told where she could find Georgie early that evening .
5 Her gait slowed as Rain disappeared into Eliot 's office , then she asked Mona where she could find Miss MacQuillan .
6 She searched the hazy , unfocused faces to see if she could find Johnny amongst them , but she could not be sure .
7 Renewed tears flowing , dirty hands in dirty pockets , she ran from that terrible , disloyal little hen — ran as fast as she could to find Anderson , with his promise of comfort and sound advice .
8 After the 1974 general election , Liberal Democrats have been nervously recalling , Mr Heath urgently tried to contact the then Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe to negotiate a pact , only to be informed by Liberal Party headquarters that no one could find Mr Thorpe 's telephone number .
9 If anybody could find Bernard , then he could .
10 It could find Floridia , so somewhere important like Blackbury ought to be no trouble . ’
11 On stand duty at a recent careers convention , my distant thoughts were interrupted by approach of a young bloke enquiring as to where he could find PCL .
12 Monks then agreed to pay Fagin some money if he could find Oliver again , and more money if he could turn the poor boy into a thief . ’
13 In this place he could find Roy Rogers , Gene Autry , the Lone Ranger and Tonto .
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