Example sentences of "find [pn reflx] [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 | Lindsey found herself gazing at a fully equipped unit that would have done credit to any major hospital . |
| 12 | Lee found herself gazing at the pubes of a woman a little way along from her and thinking about undergrowths and mazes and secrets and magic and dirt . |
| 13 | Leaning away slightly as Ibn Fayoud enveloped her in his gowns and aftershave , Kelly found herself looking at a smiling Annie . |
| 14 | When her lashes lifted she found herself looking at a name . |
| 15 | Drawing it out , she found herself looking at a face which was striking both for its good looks and its expression of surprise . |
| 16 | Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely . |
| 17 | Nikos smiled and said something softly in Greek , and for some reason Lindsey found herself blushing at the sudden contact of Niall 's hand against her arm , but she could n't interpret the look he gave her as they were ushered towards one of the few empty tables overlooking the harbour . |
| 18 | She asked herself which of them she should phone and found herself trembling at the thought of phoning any of them . |
| 19 | Again she found herself trembling at the thought . |
| 20 | As the sound of his car died away she found herself staring at the blank windows of Ivy Cottage across the lane . |
| 21 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 22 | Jessamy found herself staring at the powerful set of his shoulders , and remembered all too clearly that the aura of power was n't just an illusion . |
| 23 | She stood motionless , waiting for the two to break apart , and found herself staring at the girl from whom Niall was now gently detaching himself . |
| 24 | ’ He sounded quite excited and Folly found herself smiling at the way his dramatic gesture was bringing out the little boy in someone as sophisticated as Luke . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Even with regard to this episode Margaret showed a sisterly loyalty : I am told that when she and Ivy found themselves staying at the same hotel as Cecilia Ady , Eleanor Jourdain 's chief opponent , ‘ there was a marked coldness ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I next found myself lying at the bottom of a crude hopper of duck boards which was set on top of an irrigation dyke . |
| 30 | 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 . |