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Example sentences for "could find"

  • I encompassed it almost round, before I could find a convenient place to land in; which was a small creek, about three times the wideness of my canoe.

  • I searched for the cassava root, which the Indians, in all that climate, make their bread of, but I could find none.

  • He had fainted already, and his brother had to carry him as far as the park before he could find any of the other watchers.

  • He could find no refuge in the past; he must go on into the future.

  • The only place he could find suitable, was a public-house at the corner of a back street, where the men-servants of the neighbourhood used to resort.

  • Mr. Arnold left the room, and presently returned with his arms filled with all the drawing-room books he could find, with grand bindings outside, and equally grand plates inside.

  • But, to his discomfiture, he could find no fastening upon it.

  • Yet still he hung his head, for, while his ambition had come to life, it could find no sort of outlet.

  • In 1848, he made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, but he could find no peace for his soul.

  • It is not the law that troubles me: with that I could find a means to deal.

  • We seized our spears and followed; but the ground grew stony, and, search as we would, we could find no trace of Umslopogaas or of the lioness.

  • But for all his longing he could find no means to win it.

  • Now, my father, I trembled in all my flesh, seeing the purpose of Chaka; but I could find no words to say, for my tongue clave to the roof of my mouth.

  • You're a gentleman I could find it in me heart to both love and hate, governor.

  • I had to take what I could find ready-made, you know.

  • He told the shepherd in charge of it that he had come to see if he could find traces of a large wingless bird, whose existence had been reported as having been discovered among the extreme head waters of the river.

  • With the fearlessness of birds in that country, it looked up at him and George, gave another hearty chuckle, and flew back to its statue with the largest fragment it could find.

  • My father gathered up the remaining quails, some of which he meant to eat in the morning, while the others he would throw away as soon as he could find a safe place.

  • It afterwards transpired that these two young men were George's brothers, who by his desire had taken the seats some hours ago, for it was here that George had determined to place himself and my father if he could find him.

  • He clasped her in his arms, and kissed her again and again, but for a time he could find no utterance.

  • I thereupon put the matter in the right view before her, in the friendliest and most comforting words I could find.

  • Before I could find an answer to this immensely comprehensive question, an apparition advanced towards me, out of a dark corner of the kitchen.

  • I despatched the first woman-servant I could find to Rosanna's room; and I sent the boy back to say that I myself would follow him with the boot.

  • Mr. Bruff sat down on the first chair that he could find, and (emulating the usefulness of the cow) plunged back again into his papers on the spot.

  • To all these tumultuary questions I could find no answer; and in the turmoil of my mind, nothing was plain except the hateful leering image of the woman.

  • So he kissed the cleanest spot he could find on the boy's face, and set him on the floor again, saying, "Go and play.

  • I'm sure I could find in it the explanation of the abominable intrigue which Pascal and I are the victims of.

  • See, I have straightened the willow bed in the corner, and spread everything soft upon it I could find, so that the mother might lie in comfort.

  • Annie was so true a friend that he told her even of their present distress, of how money was needed and how everything depended upon his obtaining work, and he could find nothing to do in the neighborhood.

  • I wish," said he solemnly, "that I could find something I was searching for last night!

  • It's humiliatin'," said the yellow horse, sniffing to see if he could find a few spare grains.

  • Within short time Merlin had found such knights that should fulfil twenty and eight knights, but no more he could find.

  • And this damsel is the most valiant and fairest lady that I know living, or yet that ever I could find.

  • But and ye loved her not so well as ye do, I could find you a damsel of beauty and of goodness that should like you and please you, and your heart were not set; but there as a man's heart is set, he will be loth to return.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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