Example sentences of "could find " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've done everything you could to find her . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And pointed out that he was doing all he could to find alternative engagements for the musicians . |
| 4 | No , you could to find out , it 's in between |
| 5 | Alas , my aquatic love , said another line , and Jaromil knew that the aquatic love was Magda ; but he also knew that nobody else could find her in that line … ’ . |
| 6 | Tomorrow , if I could find a better medium , I would throw away cinema . |
| 7 | I also have more than a thought for the people who do have homes but who are living in conditions of appalling squalor , for battered wives and abused children who stay at home because there 's nowhere safe for them to go , and for the husbands who choose to stay with their families in the north rather than abandon them for crazy periods of time because they could find work only in the south , And while we 're on the subject , I 'm sick and tired of listening to government and commerce saying it 's ‘ uneconomic ’ to locate businesses in the north of Britain when we 're currently importing billions of pounds ’ worth of consumer goods from the other side of the world . |
| 8 | And hazelnut stuffed aubergines , mozzarella cheese , parmesan , the tiniest button mushrooms she could find . |
| 9 | I am alone on a desolate plain , and I am cold and I am lonely thought Jay , chanted Jay , she could find no comfort . |
| 10 | At first they assumed that he could find a place among the steep woods behind Camserney and be supplied by their good friends Donald and Aileen Gillies at the mill . |
| 11 | He could find his way back to New York somehow . |
| 12 | It is true that Arnold Bennett , for one , refused to conform to that stereotype ; and doubtless one could find other exceptions . |
| 13 | If we were to wind up the POWs fund and pay out the money once and for all to all POWs that we could find , we could run into severe problems in the next 10 to 15 years as these chaps get very old and need help even more . |
| 14 | If he could find convincing words to say it in one striking and memorable phrase , he might be truly on his way . |
| 15 | Members of the medical faculty said they would fax press reports of the Peking democracy movement to as many recipients as they could find in China , to overcome censorship . |
| 16 | Others swore they tasted fine , if only you could find an army of friends to devour them with . |
| 17 | If that really is the way the authorities are now thinking — and ‘ readers ’ letters ' have long been notoriously close to official thinking in East Germany — then the government could find it is courting unprecedented disaster . |
| 18 | As an anxious new father , Belinda 's partner , Jem , read everything he could find about Down 's syndrome because he wanted to know what he could expect from the future . |
| 19 | Timothy Renton , Minister of State at the Home Office , told the conference the Government would not push to legislate while neither shops nor shoppers could agree on a solution , pressure groups could not agree , and Parliament could find no consensus . |
| 20 | If you have owed money , you could find that the lender has obtained judgment against you without your knowledge . |
| 21 | Indeed , even if you find Prune a bit of a bore you could find the stories behind the character and the ‘ finger ’ awards entertaining and funny . |
| 22 | He dedicated this formidable intellect to eradicating nonsense from the world , especially nonsense in divinity , which was a world where in those days he could find plenty of targets for his scorn . |
| 23 | When his father died he burnt all the letters he could find . |
| 24 | Ramsey could find nowhere to live within the parish . |
| 25 | He wondered where he could find a chance of quieter work . |
| 26 | Emerson wrote that he could find ‘ the primeval world … in myself , but his thinking self is seen as confident master of that world . |
| 27 | I did n't twig at the time but really she just wanted to hang out in the shop and she was coming up with any old excuse she could find to be in there . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Without turning on the light she sat up and reached for her bottle and glass , faintly alarmed to discover she could find them both by feel alone . |
| 30 | Apart from the holiday in Italy , they had not spent a whole night together more than half a dozen times in two years , and never at her home ; always when they could find excuses for them both to be in other cities . |