Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [v-ing] [adv] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light died instantly as she found herself looking not at Dane , but at Marianne . |
| 2 | In the light Maggie found herself staring directly at Bryce , the live-in general handyman at The Haven . |
| 3 | But I found myself looking straight at Pike . |
| 4 | She imagined herself turning up at Alan 's bedside with an armful of freesias and went hot all over . |
| 5 | Dorris Thompson , aged 84 , of Park Square West , Jaywick , was described to Essex Coroner Dr Malcolm Weir as a ‘ thin frail elderly lady ’ who always turned her heating off at night . |
| 6 | At any rate , when I saw her approaching late at night from the last bus , I would feign sleep and lie rigid in bed , willing my eyes to stay shut , but the sagging weight of Val sitting on the edge of my bed and her heart-rending sighs usually wore me down in the end , and I had to open my eyes and listen . |
| 7 | These goblins hated the old man and the boys , because they tended the sacred fire at the sun 's shrine and kept it burning even at night , so that there was always a light in the forest . |