Example sentences of "[not/n't] find [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Isabelle returned , he said , she should not find her home empty and unloved . ’ |
| 2 | I have searched high and low and can not find them I have sent others out , two dozen , also seeking , and they can not find them either . |
| 3 | But the rest either did not find them so , or did not consider it relevant to their teaching of mathematics . |
| 4 | I stepped back to avoid the overpowering closeness of his face and a little man on the inner circle of the crowd startled me with a friendly smile , but I could not find him again when I looked for him . |
| 5 | Not a term I would use myself , since I do not find it particularly felicitous . |
| 6 | Now that the Penguin Islands represent a new DXCC country , Dxpeditioners will not find it particularly easy or pleasant to operate from them . |
| 7 | Perhaps it is not surprising that the Hon. Members for Wimbledon ( Dr. Goodson-Wickes ) and for Battersea ( Mr. Bowis ) and those other Hon. Members from other exotic places who served with us would not find it particularly attractive to participate in further debates on the Bill today . |
| 8 | If you can not find it locally , contact Humber direct — the details are given on page 267 . |
| 9 | They can not find it here in stone as soft as sand |
| 10 | ‘ We 'll not find it here , Brother , but perhaps in Woodforde … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ After you leave my island you will not find it again and this place will vanish under the sea waves . ’ |
| 12 | Somehow the protestant part of me could not find it right to speak of her place in God 's order of salvation because I was afraid of her obscuring the central place of Jesus Christ in his Church . |
| 13 | ‘ Of course , if you get married now , ’ Aunt Lilian said , ‘ you may not find it so easy to get into politics . ’ |
| 14 | Those with tunnel vision , for instance , would not find it so . |
| 15 | Looking back on the elements I have enumerated — of change , internationalism and achievement — I do not find it so surprising that I chose an industrial career , although I knew nothing of all this when I joined ICI . |
| 16 | Small firms may not find it so easy to make this commitment , particularly if they have either a small , stable workforce , or the need to recruit at short notice when vacancies occur . |
| 17 | And he might not find it so easy here . |
| 18 | Yes , he thought , they 'll not find it there . |
| 19 | If you are a Windows user who wants to be able to use your dBASE format files ( and applications ) under Windows , you will not find it very easy . |
| 20 | She did not find it too difficult to go into a small shop — say , the local newsagent or the greengrocer at the corner of the street — as she was never too far from the window or the door . |
| 21 | And it may see a child as a foal , and may not find it as intimidating or threatening as a mature person . |
| 22 | Did you not find it as strange as I did , that we should so immediately understand each other so well ? |
| 23 | The government 's information-technology advisers pointed out that British householders will not find it as easy to receive satellite signals as many believe . |
| 24 | Well I may not , I may not find it as good , do n't , they always show you clips as trailers of the best bit 's . |
| 25 | You will not find it quite so easy to get round me . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ But he ca n't find him here , ’ said Tim , ‘ especially the state he 's in . ’ |
| 27 | Just trying to see if there was any , Ernie , I 'm trying to hunt Ernie up but I ca n't find him yet . |
| 28 | Posters on every lamp post promised a personal appearance of Peter the Panda , representing the Darlington and Stockton Times , but we could n't find him either . |
| 29 | Even a woman like you wo n't want to be responsible for what could happen to my sister if I do n't find him soon . ’ |
| 30 | And I could n't find him once and I shouted , Father , father . |