Example sentences of "find [pron] [verb] at [art] " 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 | Wycliffe found himself gazing at the white hairs which sprouted from her upper lip and looked quickly away . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose you read Kafka , you understand the complexities with which he found himself faced at every turn . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Delaney found himself looking at a cargo vessel with a very high superstructure three-quarters aft . |
| 6 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 9 | He found himself walking at a steady pace towards those meaty shoulders . |
| 10 | One of the nine graduates from the estimable Haringey ( now London ) Cricket College to have passed through the first-class portals , the seamer from St Lucia found himself plopped at the top of the order in the absence of four injured batsmen , this despite a previous firstclass output of 0 and 4 not out . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Francis lifted his head above the edge of the display and found himself staring at a confusing picture of pipes and girders . |
| 13 | Lindsey found herself gazing at a fully equipped unit that would have done credit to any major hospital . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Leaning away slightly as Ibn Fayoud enveloped her in his gowns and aftershave , Kelly found herself looking at a smiling Annie . |
| 16 | When her lashes lifted she found herself looking at a name . |
| 17 | Drawing it out , she found herself looking at a face which was striking both for its good looks and its expression of surprise . |
| 18 | Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely . |
| 19 | Caroline found herself seated at the lunch-table next to Romano de Sciorto , a state of affairs which did nothing for her shaky morale . |
| 20 | Nikos smiled and said something softly in Greek , and for some reason Lindsey found herself blushing at the sudden contact of Niall 's hand against her arm , but she could n't interpret the look he gave her as they were ushered towards one of the few empty tables overlooking the harbour . |
| 21 | ( Three separate negotiating teams were sent to each country tendering offers for the Urengoi gas pipeline , as a result of which the FRG , much to her surprise , found herself underbid at the end of the day . ) |
| 22 | She asked herself which of them she should phone and found herself trembling at the thought of phoning any of them . |
| 23 | Again she found herself trembling at the thought . |
| 24 | As the sound of his car died away she found herself staring at the blank windows of Ivy Cottage across the lane . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Jessamy found herself staring at the powerful set of his shoulders , and remembered all too clearly that the aura of power was n't just an illusion . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ’ 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 . |
| 29 | And she found herself smiling at the stark contrast between the two figures — the small passive figure of the elderly servant and the dynamic , vivid figure of the dark-haired man . |
| 30 | They found her sitting at the table with the Telegraph , nibbling toast . |