Example sentences of "[not/n't] find the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Sometimes , when writing we repeat a word unknowingly and when we read it again we recognise that our pen has slipped back over old ground : we have not found the right word . |
2 | Obviously a few spare fivers had not found the right pocket . |
3 | It stands to reason that you can not find the right person to do a job unless you know yourself exactly what that job is . |
4 | I thought for a moment , but could not find the right answer . |
5 | I 'm sure they are in a mess and perhaps you will not find the right thing , after all . ’ |
6 | ‘ You just have n't found the right job for you . ’ |
7 | Jeanette knew exactly how she wanted to look on here wedding day , but could n't find the right dress pattern . |
8 | Most of us get muddled , most of us ca n't find the right word , most of us ‘ um ’ and ‘ er ’ at various points as we 're talking . |
9 | If you ca n't find the right person to talk to , you could phone one of the numbers at the end of this leaflet . |
10 | ‘ We have jobs that we ca n't fill because we ca n't find the right quality person for them , ’ admits Charles Macleod of Robert Half . |
11 | We can allow for traffic , bike breakdown , rider ca n't find the right doorway , whatever . |
12 | When Clark had to hire someone to become chief executive of the new regulatory authority , the Treasury gave him a list of nine admirals , seventeen generals and six air marshals and told him they 'd be disappointed if he did n't find the right chap among them . |
13 | 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 . |