Example sentences of "found himself [verb] at " 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 | When he led 3–1 at the mid-session interval , Hendry looked likely to run away with it , but found himself tied at 3–3 before restoring his lead in the seventh . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose you read Kafka , you understand the complexities with which he found himself faced at every turn . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Delaney found himself looking at a cargo vessel with a very high superstructure three-quarters aft . |
| 7 | ‘ Good luck , ’ he called , and found himself looking at Nell . |
| 8 | To his amazement he found himself looking at Tina . |
| 9 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was the first time he had loved a carpet , and now he found himself looking at carpets in shop windows . |
| 12 | Lewis found himself looking at three puzzled faces . |
| 13 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 14 | He found himself walking at a steady pace towards those meaty shoulders . |
| 15 | One of the nine graduates from the estimable Haringey ( now London ) Cricket College to have passed through the first-class portals , the seamer from St Lucia found himself plopped at the top of the order in the absence of four injured batsmen , this despite a previous firstclass output of 0 and 4 not out . |
| 16 | After work in several London hotels and gambling clubs in the early '80's he bought a pub and when this failed he found himself waiting at Phyllis Court before coming to the Golf Club . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Without meaning to , O found himself staring at them too . |
| 19 | Francis lifted his head above the edge of the display and found himself staring at a confusing picture of pipes and girders . |