Example sentences of "found [pn reflx] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Blake was astonished , and found himself moving towards the Doctor . |
| 4 | Rex found himself crashing to the ground . |
| 5 | Wilting under a hail of stones and a hefty dose of the hard stuff , Jimmy Johnstone darted for cover and along with Rangers defender Sandy Jardine found himself hiding in the vicinity of a group of rowing boats . |
| 6 | He found himself looking towards the floor but could see nothing , and so shook his head . |
| 7 | Delaney found himself looking at a cargo vessel with a very high superstructure three-quarters aft . |
| 8 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 9 | Huy found himself looking at the man 's lips alone , and the spittle switching from one to the other , in horrified fascination and to the exclusion of everything else . |
| 10 | Rincewind made the mistake of glancing downwards , and found himself looking through the dragon to the treetops below . |
| 11 | As he handed the child to his mother , the little mouth opened in a yawn and George found himself looking into a pair of slate blue eyes . |
| 12 | The number rang once and then he found himself listening to a conversation . |
| 13 | He found himself struggling with the wheel , fighting to keep the vehicle under control . |
| 14 | And when Rufus 's arms grabbed him from behind , ostensibly of course just to duck him under the surface , he found himself resisting in a way that Rufus recognized as real resistance and let him go . |
| 15 | ‘ You be careful , my dad 's a vicar ! ’ and the car had stopped and the man had sworn at him viciously , using some phrases Luke later regretted not remembering , and Luke found himself shaking on the dark verge a mile out of Snead . |
| 16 | He took a step back , dizzy and breathless , then found himself sitting on the floor , back to the wall . |
| 17 | The first two weekends of the 1977 season were for Mario anyway marred by accidents : in Argentina the nose-mounted fire extinguisher exploded , and in Brazil he found himself sitting in a pool of petrol and got out of the car while it was still moving just as his cockpit went up in flames . |
| 18 | He found himself lying on the grass with those wolfish yellow eyes uncomfortably near to his . |
| 19 | North , back in the Marines , found himself landing on a beach ; there facing him , with a rifle , was Calero . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Without even realising that he 'd moved , he found himself standing by the door to her room . |
| 24 | Patrick suddenly found himself standing in the hallway , his heart tripping frantically , his breathing too fast to be comfortable . |
| 25 | In the last years of the Soviet Union and in the new republics the militia found itself dealing with a level of public demonstration — and sometimes disorder — of which it had no previous experience , and it did not always deal efficiently with them . |
| 26 | Yet , the irony of the early 1980s — as a deteriorating , but perennial , urban problem rapidly became the most acute aspect of the crisis of mass unemployment — was that a Tory government , willy-nilly , found itself presiding over an increase in state intervention through a variety of agencies . |
| 27 | Excitement flickered inside her like a random spark that found itself landing in a pile of dry autumn leaves as she hardly dared consider the possibilities and what they might mean for her . |
| 28 | Lee found herself gazing at the pubes of a woman a little way along from her and thinking about undergrowths and mazes and secrets and magic and dirt . |
| 29 | When her lashes lifted she found herself looking at a name . |
| 30 | Drawing it out , she found herself looking at a face which was striking both for its good looks and its expression of surprise . |