Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [v-ing] at the [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Lee found herself gazing at the pubes of a woman a little way along from her and thinking about undergrowths and mazes and secrets and magic and dirt . |
| 5 | She asked herself which of them she should phone and found herself trembling at the thought of phoning any of them . |
| 6 | Again she found herself trembling at the thought . |
| 7 | She stood motionless , waiting for the two to break apart , and found herself staring at the girl from whom Niall was now gently detaching himself . |
| 8 | She was still sick at heart when she passed down through the last glade and found herself staring at the Lodge 's covert thatch , its closed door , She stood for a time in the yard outside , afraid to enter . |
| 9 | ’ He sounded quite excited and Folly found herself smiling at the way his dramatic gesture was bringing out the little boy in someone as sophisticated as Luke . |
| 10 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 11 | He found her sitting at the desk which was quite clear . |
| 12 | They found her sitting at the table with the Telegraph , nibbling toast . |
| 13 | I found myself gazing at the harmonium and my memories of the happy times I 'd spent listening to Miss Louise play came flooding back and I wept more . |
| 14 | I next found myself lying at the bottom of a crude hopper of duck boards which was set on top of an irrigation dyke . |
| 15 | Ruth poured cornflakes and milk , and ate them sitting at the table where Rachaela drank her coffee . |
| 16 | She had , in her naïveté or her stupidity — she was never sure which — imagined herself standing at the elbow of a Valentino or an Armani , learning to drape soft wools , to design things that had classical beauty . |
| 17 | Harriet noticed her looking at the groceries and said cheerfully , ‘ I took one of those cordon bleu cookery courses . |
| 18 | I heard him growling at the crowd . |
| 19 | Hari heard him beating at the bushes with his truncheon and then he opened the door to the workshop . |
| 20 | He watched his dejected figure walk past him into the cottage and , after allowing a few minutes to elapse , followed him in and discovered him sitting at the table in the living room , his bag of apples and sandwich lying untouched . |
| 21 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 22 | I watched her sipping at the stuff , making faces . |
| 23 | She saw them standing at the window looking at someone in the garden with great interest . |
| 24 | He saw me looking at the picture and said , ‘ Kolwezi , Southern Zaire , 1978 . ’ |
| 25 | Reid saw me looking at the iron bars . |
| 26 | But something kept me sitting at the desk . |
| 27 | 1991 , 27 1042 ) , prompted a childhood memory and sent me rummaging at the top of the house for 300 Things a bright boy can do , a book presented to me by some relative ca 1928 . |
| 28 | ‘ When I was walking up to Keble Road yesterday I saw someone standing at the bus-stop outside St Giles ’ Church , waiting to get up to Summertown . |
| 29 | ‘ Fair enough — I kept you waiting at the Company office . |
| 30 | When I saw him dancing at the Saturday night disco at the Turtle Bay Hilton I thought I had discovered how it was he managed to survive those horrendous wipeouts . |