Example sentences of "find [pn reflx] looking [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hrun kicked away and scrambled to his feet , to find himself looking up into the wild horse-face of the dragon , its nostrils distended . |
| 2 | From his own height of well above six feet , Clive Fairbrother was always surprised to find himself looking down on Richard 's imperiously poised head . |
| 3 | He found himself looking round for Slater as she put one hand on the mantelpiece and slipped her shoe back on , fastening the strap again . |
| 4 | ‘ Good day to thee , sire , ’ Blind Hugh began , and found himself looking up into a face with four eyes in it . |
| 5 | When the guard came to he found himself looking up into the wild-eyed face of a wizard , who was menacing his throat with a sword . |
| 6 | Grant found himself looking up at an attractive dark haired nurse . |
| 7 | He found himself looking up the skirts of a girl dancing by , and he rolled across the floor in an attempt to keep up with her . |
| 8 | The gate swung outwards , and he found himself looking up at the massive head of a yawning dragon with creased cheek and jowl and a lolling red tongue . |
| 9 | There were further rattles of machine-gun fire and Rex found himself looking up at a troubled sky . |
| 10 | None came and still under the drug 's influence at dawn , he found himself looking out from the top of a forty-foot tree — he had no memory of climbing it — and looking down on a vast meadow , flecked with patterns of multi-coloured light and rocks which turned into horses , all of which filled him with ‘ tremendous emotions ’ . |
| 11 | Tom found himself looking down the barrel of a gun . |
| 12 | This thought came into Charles 's already overcrowded mind , and he found himself looking off into the wings , whence the fatal shot had come . |
| 13 | She came full circle around the house , and opened a door to find herself looking up again at the dangling corpse statue . |
| 14 | Ace found herself looking up at the sky . |
| 15 | Suddenly she came out through the last curtain of trees and found herself looking down over sunlit green meadowland to where a railway line wound like a serpent through a cutting at the foot . |
| 16 | Mary found herself looking down at the small dapper figure of Sidney Watkins , manager of the Berkeley Chase for the last ten years . |
| 17 | After he had left , she found herself looking down at her thin , ring-encrusted fingers , at the age-mottled knuckles against which , briefly , his lips had rested . |
| 18 | And it was no longer black outside : Ace could see the stars and , as she stood , she found herself looking down , through one of the side windows , at the reticulated surface of the top of the space station . |
| 19 | Cassie found herself looking down on her as she passed and so was not able to see her properly . |
| 20 | Her hand strayed to touch his short thick hair , a small yelp of surprise escaping her as her wrist was grasped by strong fingers and she found herself looking down into alert blue eyes . |
| 21 | She found herself looking down the length of her legs , squinting through the V-shape of her feet at the gaggle of sails across the water , to try and isolate ‘ their ’ two . |
| 22 | In the half-light shining in from the hallway , she went to the dormer window to pull the curtains and found herself looking out directly at Harriet 's cottage opposite . |
| 23 | The entire village closed down on the day of the funeral , and the trickle of early-season trippers found themselves looking around bemused at the drawn curtains in the houses and the handwritten notes in the shop windows before shrugging to themselves and passing on through . |
| 24 | Chalk greeted them and supplied them with beer but , as they drank , they found themselves looking down the barrels of a dozen pistols ! |
| 25 | ‘ We 've all got to share , ’ she said , as they passed through the swing doors and found themselves looking down at the courtyard of the Museum . |
| 26 | As the sky lightened even more and they began to make out their surroundings more clearly , Fenella and Caspar both found themselves looking out for the signs that Floy had hoped to leave . |
| 27 | I found myself looking about for steaming strangers . |
| 28 | It was only when I was actually up there and the music had stopped , and I found myself looking down at a hundred or so expectant faces , that I remembered the magnitude of the task in front of me . |
| 29 | Strange times we live in , he said , when he finds himself looking over his shoulder and thinking he might be safer in Sarajevo . |
| 30 | Anyway , what I 'm trying to say is that I find myself looking around more . |