Example sentences of "he can find " in BNC.

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1 The new congregation has a heaven sent opportunity to begin again to do all it can in public worship to present Christ in such a way that those who do n't know him can find him .
2 When a choreographer creates a ballet based on ancient Greek or Roman myth and legend , or on medieval legends and the fairy tales derived from them , he can find inspiration for ways of acting out the story or theme by reading the works of authors such as Homer and Plato .
3 The same irony is enriched and plangently deepened in another fine poem by Tate of the same year , in which once again the many Virgilian echoes point to a deeper affinity — with the fable of the Aeneid as making more sense than he can find anywhere else , for the historical predicament that the American Southerner has inherited and must make sense of .
4 After touring the mausoleum , the peasant returns and again asks where he can find Mao alive .
5 He can find only delusion , tyranny or demagoguery among the various heads of state and assembled representatives .
6 Listen , I ca n't stay for long , but I 've twisted Dmitri 's arm and he can find you a couple of tickets for Hedda !
7 He has ruled out any keel or mast changes in the four days left before the final trials but hopes he can find more speed by using new sails .
8 In fact there is no way out of his predicament because he can find no external way of authenticating the present : ‘ the more clearly the future could be seen , the more evident that it could validate nothing ’ ( Wheelis 1971 : 56 ) .
9 He is likely to knock you off your feet just being led across the yard if he can find anything to spook at , and when it comes to removing rugs he is something of a Houdini .
10 The manager develops an understanding of his milieu by piecing together all the scraps of data he can find .
11 The visionary can see not only utopias but he can find a goal that reconciles difference and towards which all men can strive and work .
12 Printed texts , if he can find them , may be wildly inaccurate , and notes and glossaries either hesitant or misleading . ’
13 If the guides are used for a literature search , the student gets feedback on understanding , in that he/she discovers whether or not he can find the information required .
14 Val Catto is seeing what he can find out from Cambridge . ’
15 Graham refused to run with me after that and in India , as he builds up for his first attempt at the London Marathon next year , he can find some other mug to tramp the streets of Delhi or Bombay with him .
16 These sort of facts are hardly likely to give Graham any festive cheer , but he can find some solace by taking a swift glance at last season 's results .
17 He may also wish to take in such oddities as the Bible in shorthand and , if he can find them , the portions published in the dialects : of Cornwall , Cumberland , Dorset , Durham , Devonshire , etc. , most of them privately printed for Prince Lucien Bonaparte , who included the Song of Solomon in twenty-four dialects among his list of nearly eighty publications , his English agent being Bernard Quaritch of 15 Piccadilly .
18 Although Wales manager Terry Yorath hails the Manchester United winger as the most brilliant teenager in Britain , he can find no room for him in the starting line-up against Belgium .
19 ‘ He only needs things to be left in the same place so he can find them and he 's fine , ’ she said .
20 A man who has slept on ice , whose clothes have been ice , should not be prevented by a stranger from making his journey to what freedom he can find .
21 Bardul has a small stove with a chimney set into one flue here , where he brews Lustrian coffee ( he has many sealed tins of this here ) and cooks whatever he can find to eat .
22 ‘ I 'm going to send Marler to Finland to nose around and see if he can find out where the missing men have vanished to .
23 Furthermore , he says he can find no example of a large mainframe user ever downsizing , adding that to do so would inevitably lead to lower company profits .
24 After the referendum , Mr Khasbulatov needs all the friends he can find .
25 Although he suggests he is not wholly against the permissive society , all that he can find to say in its favour is that it points to the continual necessity to make traditional values relevant to contemporary society , to the fact that the importance of the family , ‘ the very principles of order itself … are not … accepted by all ’ .
26 He can find another job .
27 Pentland 's future and Rubin 's 58% stake in it depends on whether he can find a deal to match Reebok .
28 N. K. Sanders 's summary of the plot of the epic sets the scene : When the story begins he is in mature manhood , and superior to all other men in beauty and strength and the unsatisfied cravings of his half-divine nature , for which he can find no worthy match in love or in war ; while his daemonic energy is wearing his subjects out .
29 He stops at a kiosk and buys all the better-class local papers he can find , together with an airmail edition of the Times , a street map , and a green Michelin guide to the city .
30 He can find someone else to lecture about Sudetenland Germans and Czechoslovakia and all that , she thought angrily .
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