Example sentences of "find [pn reflx] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We followed a pleasant bridle path through trees and soon found ourselves listening to the sweet bubbling song of a black cap . |
| 2 | So at 10.30 the next morning we found ourselves waiting at Lochranza , the most northerly point of the island . |
| 3 | Taking the initiative , I led the way , following three skiers who looked as if they knew where they were going — they did n't , and we found ourselves poling for quite a long way before a unanimous decision to have an early lunch was taken . |
| 4 | I would n't want us to find ourselves talking at cross-purposes . |
| 5 | The director had a lot of respect for Douglas as an actor but since this was to be Silverstein 's first theatrical film he did n't want to have to find himself dealing with ‘ A consummate ego ’ , as he put it , and then added , ‘ no , huge ego ’ . |
| 6 | He was surprised to find himself speaking about Céline to Miss van Williamsburgh ; but not deeply surprised . |
| 7 | He begins to find himself day-dreaming about Bali . |
| 8 | At Hamilton Terrace Minton may have been relieved , after the turmoil of Bedford Gardens , to find himself sharing with someone who came from a similar background . |
| 9 | After running a substantial international fibres business , it came as something of a cultural shock to find himself sitting in ICI 's headquarters with only a secretary to command . |
| 10 | At the bottom of the stairs he was surprised to find himself putting on his overcoat . |
| 11 | He was surprised therefore , after drawing his gun and edging out carefully , to find himself standing in the deserted mortuary room where he had introduced the three travellers to Howard . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Charles found himself muttering to the motherly dresser , who handed him his hat . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had only gone a short distance , when he found himself stepping into a small moonlit clearing , some twenty yards across . |
| 20 | Blake was astonished , and found himself moving towards the Doctor . |
| 21 | Invariably , afterwards , he found himself thinking about Liza Tremayne and all that was or might have been . |
| 22 | He found himself thinking about her all the time . |
| 23 | Laetitia came into it , he found himself thinking about her . |
| 24 | For a moment he found himself thinking of Letty . |
| 25 | Rex found himself crashing to the ground . |
| 26 | Maxim found himself reaching for the non-existent seatbelt . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | PALEFACE David Mellor walked into a hall full of journalists last night … and found himself drinking in The Last Chance Saloon . |