Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | So at 10.30 the next morning we found ourselves waiting at Lochranza , the most northerly point of the island . |
| 2 | I would n't want us to find ourselves talking at cross-purposes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Delaney found himself looking at a cargo vessel with a very high superstructure three-quarters aft . |
| 7 | ‘ Good luck , ’ he called , and found himself looking at Nell . |
| 8 | To his amazement he found himself looking at Tina . |
| 9 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was the first time he had loved a carpet , and now he found himself looking at carpets in shop windows . |
| 12 | Lewis found himself looking at three puzzled faces . |
| 13 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 14 | He found himself walking at a steady pace towards those meaty shoulders . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Without meaning to , O found himself staring at them too . |
| 18 | Francis lifted his head above the edge of the display and found himself staring at a confusing picture of pipes and girders . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Lindsey found herself gazing at a fully equipped unit that would have done credit to any major hospital . |
| 22 | Leaning away slightly as Ibn Fayoud enveloped her in his gowns and aftershave , Kelly found herself looking at a smiling Annie . |
| 23 | Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely . |
| 24 | Luke was standing outside on the balcony , and once again she found herself looking at his back . |
| 25 | When her lashes lifted she found herself looking at a name . |
| 26 | Drawing it out , she found herself looking at a face which was striking both for its good looks and its expression of surprise . |
| 27 | She found herself looking at his mouth , and remembering . |
| 28 | Nikos smiled and said something softly in Greek , and for some reason Lindsey found herself blushing at the sudden contact of Niall 's hand against her arm , but she could n't interpret the look he gave her as they were ushered towards one of the few empty tables overlooking the harbour . |
| 29 | Muriel , very much a Yorkshirewoman , was one of Anne Talintyre 's pupils in Leeds , and in 1965 , when the Leeds training was set up , found herself commuting at weekends from Edinburgh to Leeds to be trained by Rita , Beryl and Edith . |
| 30 | She asked herself which of them she should phone and found herself trembling at the thought of phoning any of them . |