Example sentences of "[pers pn] could find " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tomorrow , if I could find a better medium , I would throw away cinema . |
| 2 | The only passage I could find which could have referred to him was a section describing a debate during the LSE sit-in when the students were deciding whether to break down a pair of iron gates which lead to the bursar 's office . |
| 3 | If there was a light on I could find my way out easy , but it 's too dark and confusing . |
| 4 | I wish I could find my way back home . |
| 5 | Then I could find the house and unlock the front door and go in and everything . |
| 6 | ‘ For the next year I devoured every written word I could find on dolphins and whales . |
| 7 | And myself , too , if I could find |
| 8 | ‘ … with honour , ’ I added ( they were not , I realized , quite the right words but they were the nearest I could find in the urgency of the moment ) . |
| 9 | I knew the ones she meant ; she meant the square transparent boiled sweets which when she was a child would have been weighed out in pennyworths from a tall glass jar , but although I searched in grocers ’ shops and sweet shops high and low , all I could find were wrapped oval-shaped acid drops . |
| 10 | Although Dundalk is supposed to be a seaside town , I could find no trace of a harbour . |
| 11 | Doubted if I could find it in the undergrowth . |
| 12 | I got back , I could find out for certain who had told who . |
| 13 | How I wish I could find a master like you , tough and strong . |
| 14 | The smallest road I could find on my not-very-good road map headed south-east from Idar towards Kaiserslautern , through the hill country of the Bergland . |
| 15 | I could find no memorial at all for 1939–45 , though there is one elsewhere in the town . |
| 16 | One stockbroking source said last night : ‘ There are a certain number of people who have already said : ‘ Listen , if I 'm going to get clobbered , I would rather be transferred , or maybe I could find someone else who can transfer me . ’ |
| 17 | I could find only one minor error , which reflects the quality of this book . |
| 18 | I 've been on the mooch trying to see what I could find , ’ Bryce explained . |
| 19 | He could hardly tap them on the arm and yell : ‘ Can you tell me where I could find a child prostitute ? ’ |
| 20 | I knew I could find all the Playgroups in the area easily ( apart from stopping wrecking branch libraries ! ) because all Playgroups must register with the Social Services and Social Service Resource Directories for each ward are kept in their local branch library . |
| 21 | Personally , I would much rather just give it away to someone who can handle it if I could find them . |
| 22 | I contacted all the secretarial agencies I could find … ’ |
| 23 | He is said to have remarked : ‘ I would sell London , if I could find anyone rich enough to buy it . ’ |
| 24 | Some temperaments hanker after blueprints — ‘ if only I could find the right formula I 'd triumph ’ . |
| 25 | I should have liked to trample on the face of the first German I could find and kick him over and over again in the stomach . |
| 26 | ‘ I took out all I could find . ’ |
| 27 | In almost anything that happened I could find guilt and apply it to myself . |
| 28 | I could find under your duvet |
| 29 | Strangely I could find only one mention of a plant parasite — in a figure . |
| 30 | ‘ I drove home and then followed the road into Alton , but I could find no sign of them , ’ he said . |