Example sentences of "could [adv] find [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of the research , children could generally find employment in the area without leaving home . |
| 2 | Whether there was any political party that could comfortably find room for him was a difficult question . |
| 3 | Young men who could easily find work in the East Anglian villages during the peak periods of the farming year — haysel and corn harvest — were dismissed by farmers after the harvest , and often spent the whole winter hanging about without work and without any form of subsistence except the parish or the charity of their family . |
| 4 | At least now , today , she could ease his suffering , help him forget Madeleine for a little while , make him see that he could still find happiness of a kind without her . |
| 5 | Gabriel could always find time for a little flirtation . |
| 6 | He could always find fault with something , either in my writing or in my personality — something not difficult to achieve because I have always laid myself open to easy attack . |
| 7 | er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't |
| 8 | Looking back to the time when she could n't find reverse on her company car , Alison contrasted this with her new job responsibilities : ‘ Now I 'm driving over 2,500 miles a month , much of it spent on the M25 . |