Example sentences of "[verb] himself [v-ing] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Delaney found himself looking at a cargo vessel with a very high superstructure three-quarters aft . |
| 5 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 8 | He found himself walking at a steady pace towards those meaty shoulders . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Francis lifted his head above the edge of the display and found himself staring at a confusing picture of pipes and girders . |
| 11 | One night he had found himself chuckling at the merry escapades of Mr Pickwick ; another night he had wept uncontrollably at the death of Little Nell . |