Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [not/n't] find a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom would n't wear rain gear because he could n't find a set to really fit his 6ft 3in frame , so it was hard work for me to keep him dry . |
| 2 | It sounded such a stilted way to put it , but he could n't find a different approach at the moment . |
| 3 | But each time he could n't find a way past Eric Nixon in the Tranmere goal . |
| 4 | Subsequently the council 's own officers told the inquiry that a pedestrian had been killed on Hollyhurst Road because he could n't find a safe place to cross , that ambulances struggle to get down Hollyhurst Road in emergencies , that residents cars are blocked in their drives and that buses have to drop off in the middle of the road . |
| 5 | Yet this man found himself unloved , in that he demanded so much from his friends that he could not find a close , enduring relationship to satisfy him . |
| 6 | And he wo n't find a better one . ’ |
| 7 | But a historian of modern transport can go to an enormous mass of recorded and photographed information when he can not find a surviving model of an early bombing aeroplane ; the historian of , say , medieval navies has infinitely smaller resources . |
| 8 | In either case he does not run the risk of being left with the goods ; if he can not find a purchaser he can return them to X. The answer is that he is X 's agent if under the terms of his contract with X he has no right himself to buy the goods but can only sell to a third party , Weiner v. Harris ( 1910 C.A. ) . |