Example sentences of "find [pron] [v-ing] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't be surprised to find me sitting on the tee in the lotus position , ’ he warned . |
| 2 | Benny , Ace and Petion arrived to find them milling around the door , testing it for electrification with a bayonet whose handle was securely wrapped with oilcloth . |
| 3 | It 's not unusual to find them basking on the slopes of the teeing areas . |
| 4 | Suddenly Isabel was no longer floating , she was falling instead , the sensation so swift and unexpected that she flung up her hands to save herself , and found them clinging to the source of the heat above her . |
| 5 | She remained in the room for a long while but although Carrie went there twice with tea for them , she found them talking in the Romany language and did not understand anything they said . |
| 6 | When Ella came in , exactly three minutes later , she found them standing on the hearthrug , hand in hand . |
| 7 | They found me sitting in the hall , I had to be helped upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Blake was astonished , and found himself moving towards the Doctor . |
| 11 | Rex found himself crashing to the ground . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He found himself looking towards the floor but could see nothing , and so shook his head . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Rincewind made the mistake of glancing downwards , and found himself looking through the dragon to the treetops below . |
| 16 | He found himself struggling with the wheel , fighting to keep the vehicle under control . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | He took a step back , dizzy and breathless , then found himself sitting on the floor , back to the wall . |
| 19 | He found himself lying on the grass with those wolfish yellow eyes uncomfortably near to his . |
| 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 | Her eyes spanned the room , once , twice , and seemed to find something threatening in the silence . |
| 26 | Bernice woke to find herself lying outside the temple . |
| 27 | Maggie turned round to find herself staring into the eyes she 'd stared into in the pub . |
| 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 | Lowering her head , Loretta stepped through the narrow gap , and found herself looking from the shadow of the gateway across a carefully tended lawn to the far side of the college . |
| 30 | It was a brief respite ; when , presently , she took a break and switched on the radio , she found herself listening to the voice of Detective Inspector Clarke who was being interviewed by a reporter . |