Example sentences of "[verb] himself [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found himself looking up the skirts of a girl dancing by , and he rolled across the floor in an attempt to keep up with her . |
| 2 | Tom found himself looking down the barrel of a gun . |
| 3 | As he found himself speaking out the name into the imprisoned night of the Zoo he wanted to cry out with sadness . |
| 4 | In seconds he found himself hovering over a group of them which swayed this way and that beneath him in the dark , not nice and firm like the dead branch set in his cage . |
| 5 | Twenty-five minutes later , as he climbed the steps of St Martin's-in-the-Field , he found himself offering up a little prayer , its sentiments not so very different from those of the carols this congregation would presently be singing . |
| 6 | It must obviously be too late to go to the bazaar now , he thought with relief as he came face to face with the group , but he found himself trotting out the excuse about correcting papers and not noticing the time before anyone had had the chance to comment on his non-attendance . |
| 7 | When the youth swung round he found himself staring down the barrel of Graham 's Beretta . |
| 8 | Soon , he found himself standing over a young Dragoon who was lying on the ground . |