Example sentences of "found [pron] [verb] at " in BNC.
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1 | Watkins found them sited at intervals along a ley and often at the crossing of two leys . |
2 | who found me staring at you in a store |
3 | So at 10.30 the next morning we found ourselves waiting at Lochranza , the most northerly point of the island . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
6 | When he led 3–1 at the mid-session interval , Hendry looked likely to run away with it , but found himself tied at 3–3 before restoring his lead in the seventh . |
7 | ‘ I suppose you read Kafka , you understand the complexities with which he found himself faced at every turn . |
8 | The membrane broke open and he found himself looking at a little horse 's head lying upon a pair of stretched out forelegs , a perfect little head with shell-like curling nostrils and a narrow white blaze , and wet , flattened-down ears . |
9 | Delaney found himself looking at a cargo vessel with a very high superstructure three-quarters aft . |
10 | ‘ Good luck , ’ he called , and found himself looking at Nell . |
11 | To his amazement he found himself looking at Tina . |
12 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | It was the first time he had loved a carpet , and now he found himself looking at carpets in shop windows . |
15 | Lewis found himself looking at three puzzled faces . |
16 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
17 | He found himself walking at a steady pace towards those meaty shoulders . |
18 | One of the nine graduates from the estimable Haringey ( now London ) Cricket College to have passed through the first-class portals , the seamer from St Lucia found himself plopped at the top of the order in the absence of four injured batsmen , this despite a previous firstclass output of 0 and 4 not out . |
19 | After work in several London hotels and gambling clubs in the early '80's he bought a pub and when this failed he found himself waiting at Phyllis Court before coming to the Golf Club . |
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 | Without meaning to , O found himself staring at them too . |
22 | Francis lifted his head above the edge of the display and found himself staring at a confusing picture of pipes and girders . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | She found herself gazing at Roman 's secretary-receptionist with an effort at detachment , trying to pin-point the exact logical reason for this rush of unprecedented hatred towards someone she barely knew . |
25 | Lindsey found herself gazing at a fully equipped unit that would have done credit to any major hospital . |
26 | Leaning away slightly as Ibn Fayoud enveloped her in his gowns and aftershave , Kelly found herself looking at a smiling Annie . |
27 | Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely . |
28 | Luke was standing outside on the balcony , and once again she found herself looking at his back . |
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 . |