Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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1 | No-one said much to me at tea , although I caught them looking at me sometimes as they sipped at their mugs . |
2 | who found me staring at you in a store |
3 | It stopped them reacting violently because it stopped them reacting at all . ’ |
4 | So at 10.30 the next morning we found ourselves waiting at Lochranza , the most northerly point of the island . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Delaney found himself looking at a cargo vessel with a very high superstructure three-quarters aft . |
9 | ‘ Good luck , ’ he called , and found himself looking at Nell . |
10 | To his amazement he found himself looking at Tina . |
11 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | It was the first time he had loved a carpet , and now he found himself looking at carpets in shop windows . |
14 | Lewis found himself looking at three puzzled faces . |
15 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
16 | He found himself walking at a steady pace towards those meaty shoulders . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Without meaning to , O found himself staring at them too . |
20 | Francis lifted his head above the edge of the display and found himself staring at a confusing picture of pipes and girders . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Lindsey found herself gazing at a fully equipped unit that would have done credit to any major hospital . |
24 | Leaning away slightly as Ibn Fayoud enveloped her in his gowns and aftershave , Kelly found herself looking at a smiling Annie . |
25 | Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely . |
26 | Luke was standing outside on the balcony , and once again she found herself looking at his back . |
27 | When her lashes lifted she found herself looking at a name . |
28 | Drawing it out , she found herself looking at a face which was striking both for its good looks and its expression of surprise . |
29 | She found herself looking at his mouth , and remembering . |
30 | 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 . |