Example sentences of "found myself [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 3 | It gave me strange things to think of when I found myself looking at my own boy 's face in a picture painted three hundred years ago ! |
| 4 | I found myself looking at toupees the other day , horrible things , rat skins ! ’ |
| 5 | I followed the line of the shadow along the sand , over the rocks , and found myself looking at little Paul , splashing happily about in a pool , slapping the water with a great flat bit of wood almost as big as he was . |
| 6 | I found myself staring at her , my mind devolving from the content of the short and impersonal crematorium service . |
| 7 | I do have to say that on occasion I found myself baulking at a certain inconsistent and artificialsounding short reverberation effect following the odd sudden soloist ( trumpet or saxophone ) sforzando ( two specific cases are mentioned above ) , but this is a price I 'm more than willing to pay for the added ambience and clarity that Nippon Columbia has afforded these treasurable recordings . |
| 8 | Later , much later , when I 'd refused at least seventeen attempts to ply me with drink , I found myself sitting at dinner , attempting to charm the ruling monarch 's fourth child . |
| 9 | I next found myself lying at the bottom of a crude hopper of duck boards which was set on top of an irrigation dyke . |
| 10 | I found myself laughing at how easy it all seemed , and axe in hand went hurrying off to join him . |