Example sentences of "he find [pn reflx] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | To his amazement he found himself looking at Tina . |
3 | It was the first time he had loved a carpet , and now he found himself looking at carpets in shop windows . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He found himself walking at a steady pace towards those meaty shoulders . |