Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] [v-ing] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We followed a pleasant bridle path through trees and soon found ourselves listening to the sweet bubbling song of a black cap . |
| 2 | Charles found himself muttering to the motherly dresser , who handed him his hat . |
| 3 | Rex found himself crashing to the ground . |
| 4 | Sometimes the pastor found himself speaking to an empty church ; sometimes to a church filled with schoolchildren ; sometimes to a congregation supplemented by the relatives of islanders brought over from the mainland , and other tourists . |
| 5 | With the Philharmonia wind players at their vaulting , brilliant best , it was a performance which Porter found himself preferring to the mellower and long-admired Clemens Krauss recordings , which sounded tame by comparison . |
| 6 | The number rang once and then he found himself listening to a conversation . |
| 7 | Mr Berkley found himself responding to the insistent beat . |
| 8 | This she had done , only to find herself talking to a horribly languid sort of character who obviously fancied himself rotten and who , she was prepared to swear , was wearing brown suede shoes and a shirt featuring tattersall checks , accompanied by a green knit tie . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When at last Luke released her , she found herself clinging to the kitchen cabinet like a shipwrecked mariner to a rock . |
| 11 | But she found herself talking to the empty room , and the sky outside the window was the untroubled blue of a peaceful July morning . |
| 12 | With unashamed interest , he studied her anxious , freshly scrubbed face , and she found herself responding to the arrival at last of his faint , elusive smile , her limpid eyes softening with warmth because she knew instinctively that he smiled rarely and that she was privileged . |
| 13 | Again she found herself responding to the fever of his passionate desire , and as her own need rose to meet it a small cry of yearning left her — a cry that was accompanied by a totally different cry that echoed from downstairs . |
| 14 | But something about him had fastened itself to her memory , and she found herself saying to a bartender the night after , ‘ Do you know a boy , about fifteen or sixteen , a legit , who goes around with a large black dog ? ’ |
| 15 | Topaz found herself praying to a God to whom she did n't quite believe that Andrew would agree and stay with her for a while . |
| 16 | The first three shows last September really were filmed live , and the temperature in the first club reached 152°F scrambling the digital equipments programming , so that Matt Bianco found themselves miming to a completely different tune . |
| 17 | is totally different so I did the first lecture with what my idea of to find myself talking to a a contract housing guy whose biggest order was two thousand pounds |
| 18 | I found myself humming to the tune of the violin an old man was playing for sous . |
| 19 | I did n't bother to switch off the tape , and found myself listening to a religious programme , which suggested that suffering , guilt and penance is the path towards righteousness . |
| 20 | I told myself going to the 18th today that if I could birdie it I could win the tournament . ’ |
| 21 | It 's just that I can see myself listening to the Brahms Quartets rather more often . |
| 22 | Miraculously , within a couple of minutes , he 'd found himself speaking to a woman he 'd kissed goodbye in the early May of 1944 — over forty-six years ago ! |
| 23 | I find myself turning to the first chapter of the Book of Genesis for an insight into what I am hinting at here . |
| 24 | ‘ I find myself talking to the baby all the time . |
| 25 | You advertise it in libraries , schools and local newspapers and find yourself reading to an audience of about thirty five . |
| 26 | They have also found themselves agreeing to the introduction of temporary workers in return for employers granting increased job security for the majority of the labour force . |
| 27 | She felt herself moving to the side with the others , as the lights were lowered , and a stool placed in the centre of the dance-floor . |
| 28 | Alyssia nodded and stepped inside out of the rain , allowing herself to be helped out of her jacket , and finding herself responding to the girl 's general comments about the weather . |
| 29 | First of all we have to time ourselves according to the buses which are one an hour out of the village into town , which is just a five minute journey . |
| 30 | Pascoe tried to stop himself stiffening to a seated attention position and could n't quite manage it . |