Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found myself gazing at the harmonium and my memories of the happy times I 'd spent listening to Miss Louise play came flooding back and I wept more . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 3 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 4 | I found myself looking at toupees the other day , horrible things , rat skins ! ’ |
| 5 | I found myself laughing at how easy it all seemed , and axe in hand went hurrying off to join him . |
| 6 | I found myself staring at her , my mind devolving from the content of the short and impersonal crematorium service . |
| 7 | Later , much later , when I 'd refused at least seventeen attempts to ply me with drink , I found myself sitting at dinner , attempting to charm the ruling monarch 's fourth child . |
| 8 | I do have to say that on occasion I found myself baulking at a certain inconsistent and artificialsounding short reverberation effect following the odd sudden soloist ( trumpet or saxophone ) sforzando ( two specific cases are mentioned above ) , but this is a price I 'm more than willing to pay for the added ambience and clarity that Nippon Columbia has afforded these treasurable recordings . |
| 9 | I caught myself shouting at people or giving them lectures about elementary things like the importance of oiling their bikes ( I later discovered that oiling bikes in dusty regions wears out the moving parts rather than preserving them ) . |
| 10 | I remember myself calling at his dressing room during the run of Pieces of Eight . |
| 11 | As we dance I find myself staring at the French girl — she has a very pretty face with long , dark hair on to her shoulders , slim build and about 5′ 2″ in height . |
| 12 | As so often in this story of my own anorexia nervosa , I find myself arriving at the same conclusion , the same central statement : it could have worked for some people , but it did n't work for me . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Again she found herself trembling at the thought . |
| 15 | Luke was standing outside on the balcony , and once again she found herself looking at his back . |
| 16 | When her lashes lifted she found herself looking at a name . |
| 17 | Drawing it out , she found herself looking at a face which was striking both for its good looks and its expression of surprise . |
| 18 | She found herself looking at his mouth , and remembering . |
| 19 | And she found herself smiling at the stark contrast between the two figures — the small passive figure of the elderly servant and the dynamic , vivid figure of the dark-haired man . |
| 20 | She found herself smiling at him suddenly as they gained the shelter of the sitting-room and went in search of towels . |
| 21 | As the sound of his car died away she found herself staring at the blank windows of Ivy Cottage across the lane . |
| 22 | Oh , you get yourself looking at yourself . |
| 23 | Samuel Butler offers his readers a helpful hint : ‘ to know whether you are enjoying a piece of music or not , you must see whether you find yourself looking at the advertisement of Pears soap at the end of the programme ’ . |
| 24 | But , if tonight you find yourself yawning at 9.30 , why not have an early night ? |
| 25 | She was to be sure to concentrate first on the relaxation part of the exercise , and was to stop immediately if she felt herself becoming at all upset . |
| 26 | Do you find yourself snapping at your partner when he does n't deserve it , or losing patience with your children , simply because you 're exhausted ? |
| 27 | So at 10.30 the next morning we found ourselves waiting at Lochranza , the most northerly point of the island . |
| 28 | If we examine what it is one participant is ready to see that other participants might read into a situation and what it is that will cause him to provide ritual remedies , followed by relief for these efforts , we find ourselves looking at the central moral traditions of Western culture . |
| 29 | The momentary confusion it caused in their reaction , meant that Satan and Baal missed their swiftly moving target by inches , as they found themselves snapping at empty air in mid-leap . |
| 30 | 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 . |