Example sentences of "he find himself [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But instead of the greed-crazed madman he expected , he found himself looking into the round red face of a Sergeant of the Watch . |
| 2 | It was then he knew for certain that the oriental he had just shot was not the one from whom he had wanted to exact retribution for injuring Pam — because at the other end of the corridor he found himself looking into the glittering black eyes of his hated enemy , Angel One . |
| 3 | He found himself looking towards the floor but could see nothing , and so shook his head . |
| 4 | But things change quickly at Ferrari and , in 1990 , he found himself swimming against the political tide . |
| 5 | It was several days later that he found himself rising through the complex of dripping wet catwalks and steps that ran around the Power line . |
| 6 | Now , with his head pointing upwards , he found himself gazing at the ridge , as over the sky-line came the silent , moving , red-tinged cumuli . |
| 7 | He found himself struggling with the wheel , fighting to keep the vehicle under control . |
| 8 | All the same , he found himself wondering about the strange animal and , almost as ii he was under some strange influence , he could not get the events out of his mind . |
| 9 | Thus he found himself working within the grey area between employment agencies and headhunters . |
| 10 | Almost as if he had willed himself there , he found himself standing on the scree at the foot of the rock wall , staring upwards , searching with the little experience he had gained on school climbing expeditions for footholds . |
| 11 | Without even realising that he 'd moved , he found himself standing by the door to her room . |
| 12 | He found himself lying on the grass with those wolfish yellow eyes uncomfortably near to his . |
| 13 | Then the sun came through , and light brightened , and the standing dream that Wolski had seen seemed to drift away into memory and he found himself staring into the eyes of the old female golden eagle . |
| 14 | But in attempting to discover why the Russian Revolution followed the path it did , he found himself arriving at the conclusion that , far from being a ‘ false ’ deviation , in the circumstances of history Stalinism had been necessary . |
| 15 | He finds himself calling upon the Government to use its powers to stop or sink Christopher Columbus 's expedition before it reaches America , and sets off a chain of events disastrous to the ecology of two continents . |