Example sentences of "found himself [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Rufus , who had n't much appreciation of nature usually , nevertheless found himself gazing in something like wonderment at all the roses , yellow and pink and apricot and dark red , a hedge of white ones , a cascade of peach-red that covered a pergola . |
| 8 | He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across . |
| 9 | Blake was astonished , and found himself moving towards the Doctor . |
| 10 | Invariably , afterwards , he found himself thinking about Liza Tremayne and all that was or might have been . |
| 11 | He found himself thinking about her all the time . |
| 12 | Laetitia came into it , he found himself thinking about her . |
| 13 | For a moment he found himself thinking of Letty . |
| 14 | Rex found himself crashing to the ground . |
| 15 | Maxim found himself reaching for the non-existent seatbelt . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He lifted his sword and slashed , one , two , three , at the men between him and Siward and then found himself hurtling beyond him , pushed by the momentum of his own men screaming behind and on either side . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He found himself looking towards the floor but could see nothing , and so shook his head . |
| 22 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Delaney found himself looking at a cargo vessel with a very high superstructure three-quarters aft . |
| 25 | ‘ Good luck , ’ he called , and found himself looking at Nell . |
| 26 | To his amazement he found himself looking at Tina . |
| 27 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was the first time he had loved a carpet , and now he found himself looking at carpets in shop windows . |
| 30 | Lewis found himself looking at three puzzled faces . |