Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [v-ing] [prep] [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 | Panic struck the New York stock market , share values fell dramatically and Hoover found himself presiding over the worst economic depression in the history of the USA . |
| 3 | It was several days later that he found himself rising through the complex of dripping wet catwalks and steps that ran around the Power line . |
| 4 | Charles found himself muttering to the motherly dresser , who handed him his hat . |
| 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 | He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across . |
| 8 | Blake was astonished , and found himself moving towards the Doctor . |
| 9 | Rex found himself crashing to the ground . |
| 10 | Maxim found himself reaching for the non-existent seatbelt . |
| 11 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 12 | Wilting under a hail of stones and a hefty dose of the hard stuff , Jimmy Johnstone darted for cover and along with Rangers defender Sandy Jardine found himself hiding in the vicinity of a group of rowing boats . |
| 13 | He found himself looking towards the floor but could see nothing , and so shook his head . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Delaney found himself looking at a cargo vessel with a very high superstructure three-quarters aft . |
| 16 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 19 | Rincewind made the mistake of glancing downwards , and found himself looking through the dragon to the treetops below . |
| 20 | As he handed the child to his mother , the little mouth opened in a yawn and George found himself looking into a pair of slate blue eyes . |
| 21 | But instead of the greed-crazed madman he expected , he found himself looking into the round red face of a Sergeant of the Watch . |
| 22 | It was then he knew for certain that the oriental he had just shot was not the one from whom he had wanted to exact retribution for injuring Pam — because at the other end of the corridor he found himself looking into the glittering black eyes of his hated enemy , Angel One . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | These tales made quite an impression on me as did the story of Uncle Fred 's eldest son , young Fred as he was known , putting on his age and managing to join the Marines when only sixteen , then found himself serving on the same ship as his father during the great battle — something of a unique record . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But things change quickly at Ferrari and , in 1990 , he found himself swimming against the political tide . |
| 27 | The number rang once and then he found himself listening to a conversation . |
| 28 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 29 | Also , at the Gala Night of a Hundred Stars evening at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton , a mime artist came on stage and found himself struggling with a sticky audience . |
| 30 | He found himself struggling with the wheel , fighting to keep the vehicle under control . |