Example sentences of "could [adv] [vb infin] the right [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Population was increasing , trade and industry growing ; it was an expanding economy with wonderful new opportunities for making money if one could only strike the right spot .
2 I thought for a moment , but could not find the right answer .
3 I wanted to speak to her but I could not find the right words .
4 Jan Turner says that he helped organise an evererst marathon a few years ago and one sad thing about that was the local runners could not afford the right equipment or did n't have the money to tarin … so he 's here to help them
5 Charlie could still picture the right waist gunner , Charles Paceley , standing at the right waist gun .
6 Now , at forty-odd , she could still play the right kind of romantic lead , given a sufficiently elderly and/or bisexual co-star …
7 A SHORT-SIGHTED burglar tried to break into an optician 's but could n't see the right way in .
8 Jeanette knew exactly how she wanted to look on here wedding day , but could n't find the right dress pattern .
9 But surgeons were forced to call it a day because they could n't find the right tools for the job .
10 The island was a small one in the this has got a heart middle of the pond I could n't find the right line that 's why I did that .
11 Because the police could n't get the right person , the next best was going to have to do .
12 I could n't get the right bolts .
13 ‘ I can remember phone numbers , decks of cards , all the Olympic medal-winners going back a century but I could n't remember the right day on which to turn up — at least I was n't a week late . ’
14 Again she saw Gazzer in her mind , laughing with Bella , clowning around , never taking anything seriously and she knew that she could never find the right words to convince Bella that he was dangerous .
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