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 .
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