Example sentences of "he [verb] [pn reflx] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as writing soundtracks — his latest , the music for a TV documentary on the architect Frank Lloyd Wright — he busies himself playing with no less than three other outfits . |
| 2 | She had , however , through the months of work , taken a real interest in what he was doing , and he found himself confiding in her more and more . |
| 3 | But instead of the greed-crazed madman he expected , he found himself looking into the round red face of a Sergeant of the Watch . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | To his amazement he found himself looking at Tina . |
| 8 | It was the first time he had loved a carpet , and now he found himself looking at carpets in shop windows . |
| 9 | He found himself looking towards the floor but could see nothing , and so shook his head . |
| 10 | Yet while his wife slept one afternoon he found himself looking in cardboard boxes in the attic for blackout curtains which he remembered from the War . |
| 11 | Without warning she towered to her feet and he found himself facing into her breasts before stepping back to give her room to pick up gloves and handbag . |
| 12 | But things change quickly at Ferrari and , in 1990 , he found himself swimming against the political tide . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across . |
| 16 | He found himself rocketing from desire to protectiveness in the space of seconds , and felt suddenly impatient with such irrationally see-sawing feelings . |
| 17 | So it was without surprise that he found himself sharing with her one of the tinny , open-sided cars of the creaky old funicular that saved tourists the toil of climbing the seven hundred and more steep stone steps up from the Marina Grande . |
| 18 | The number rang once and then he found himself listening to a conversation . |
| 19 | He found himself struggling with the wheel , fighting to keep the vehicle under control . |
| 20 | He found himself struggling on his back with the stifling presence of the flag wrapped round him like a shroud ; the strange thing was that as he weakly continued to struggle ( for the staff lay across his legs , pinning him down , and the lanyards had somehow trussed his elbows to his sides ) , he recognized the sensation immediately : this was a nightmare he had had on the night they had taken refuge in the Residency , and repeatedly since then throughout the siege ; when the Collector , cursing , had at last fought his way out of the flag , it was such a relief to escape from his nightmare that he felt he did not mind so much about the sepoys . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Invariably , afterwards , he found himself thinking about Liza Tremayne and all that was or might have been . |
| 23 | He found himself thinking about her all the time . |
| 24 | Laetitia came into it , he found himself thinking about her . |
| 25 | For a moment he found himself thinking of Letty . |
| 26 | All the same , he found himself wondering about the strange animal and , almost as ii he was under some strange influence , he could not get the events out of his mind . |
| 27 | Thus he found himself working within the grey area between employment agencies and headhunters . |
| 28 | Once when giving a criticism at the College he found himself standing beside a cold radiator . |
| 29 | Almost as if he had willed himself there , he found himself standing on the scree at the foot of the rock wall , staring upwards , searching with the little experience he had gained on school climbing expeditions for footholds . |
| 30 | Without even realising that he 'd moved , he found himself standing by the door to her room . |