Example sentences of "found [pron] [v-ing] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Delaney found himself looking at a cargo vessel with a very high superstructure three-quarters aft . |
| 3 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When her lashes lifted she found herself looking at a name . |
| 8 | Drawing it out , she found herself looking at a face which was striking both for its good looks and its expression of surprise . |
| 9 | She asked herself which of them she should phone and found herself trembling at the thought of phoning any of them . |
| 10 | Again she found herself trembling at the thought . |
| 11 | She stood motionless , waiting for the two to break apart , and found herself staring at the girl from whom Niall was now gently detaching himself . |
| 12 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 13 | ’ He sounded quite excited and Folly found herself smiling at the way his dramatic gesture was bringing out the little boy in someone as sophisticated as Luke . |
| 14 | He found her sitting at the desk which was quite clear . |
| 15 | They found her sitting at the table with the Telegraph , nibbling toast . |
| 16 | I found myself gazing at the harmonium and my memories of the happy times I 'd spent listening to Miss Louise play came flooding back and I wept more . |
| 17 | I next found myself lying at the bottom of a crude hopper of duck boards which was set on top of an irrigation dyke . |