Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While in 1920–1 Eliot admired both Edward Wadsworth 's drawings of industrial landscapes and Picasso 's primitivism , he found himself living the life of Thomson or of the city clerks he had read about in Conan Doyle , Davidson , Conrad , and elsewhere . |
| 2 | When Jean-Claude took over the space for his piano , he found himself lugging the trunk into the light . |
| 3 | Gavin , with an innocent air , carefully scraped up the worst of the burned shell from the stewpot , but then saw Luch watching ; somehow he found himself dropping the charred scraps into the fire , and ladling out some better meat . |
| 4 | Now , however , almost a decade later , it did not seem nearly so large and he found himself remembering the good things — the warm , cosy atmosphere of Mrs Appleby 's kitchen ; the wonderful view across the garden and pastures from all the south-facing windows ; the pungent smell of the horses , so well loved by Uncle Cosmo , in the well-kept stables ; the fascinating portrait of his handsome father in the gallery ; the stamp collection and lead soldiers that had once belonged to his father in the shabby old nursery , where he , a homesick boy , had secretly penned so many letters to Alice . |
| 5 | After three or four pages , he found himself wandering the streets or pacing anxiously through some park he did n't even recognize , twitching and murmuring strangely to himself while mothers , at the sight of him , drew their children to them and stole softly away across the grass . |
| 6 | he found himself crossing the square |
| 7 | He found himself becoming the emotional prop of the marriage . |
| 8 | ‘ Watts is really only sixth in the pecking order up front , but suddenly he found himself playing the biggest game of his life and he did himself proud . ’ |
| 9 | He found himself studying the thin man 's hands . |
| 10 | Secretly , and with some self-reproach , he found himself resenting the circumstances of this imposition . |
| 11 | Within twenty minutes he found himself minding the store , while Haynes slipped out ‘ for a few minutes ’ . |
| 12 | He found himself avoiding the street in which Francesca lived as he drove for North Kensington , calling ahead on his car phone to make sure that the forensic team was still there . |
| 13 | At the age of 16 , alone in his uncle 's house in Madurai , he describes how a sudden terror of death overtook him , and he found himself dramatizing the occurrence of death . |
| 14 | He found himself following the line of marks left in the carpet by the sharp heels of her shoes , caught himself watching the alternate bracing of her calf muscles as she moved to and fro . |
| 15 | He caught me watching the reflection of his face |
| 16 | He imagined them putting the kettle on afterwards , making tea , saying , Oh dear , what an unfortunate business , so glad it 's over . |
| 17 | Easing across to the driver 's seat , he imagined himself starting the magnificent old car and driving home , there and then , without pausing to ask any more questions . |
| 18 | He sees himself crossing the road — deftly , like a native , knowing exactly which way to look for the traffic . |
| 19 | He identifies himself with the prophets of the Old Testament in addressing contemporary life , and echoes St Paul when he sees himself keeping the streams of doctrine pure : ‘ For I am inquisitive in the Lord , and defend the philosophy of the scripture against vain deceit ’ ( A130 ) . |
| 20 | He 's not Robinson Crusoe , there are other old newspaper owners so he will say okay the government in Australia is doing what I like , therefore my newspapers or usually most of my newspapers , in fact one or two of them wo n't , will support that government and that government can be totally different one in the United States where in the Washington Post or you know in the New York Post or whatever will go and attack or support because he thinks it 's in the less interest that his commercial interest and the U S because he sees us doing the same thing there . |
| 21 | HE WO N'T cut the exchange rate of the over-valued pound because in his daydreams he sees it replacing the German mark as the strongest currency . |
| 22 | When he heard someone opening the bedroom door , he jumped out of the window and ran on to the roof . |
| 23 | He watched her putting the ingredients into two vessels , the dry ones in a large bowl on the kitchen table , and the rest into a saucepan on the massive Aga cooker . |
| 24 | It was the battle hymn of the striking coal miners in 1984 , and the old man used to sing it while he watched them fighting the police on the television , but it turned out to be another lost cause . |
| 25 | He urged anyone finding the drugs to hand them to police . |
| 26 | I do n't think Norman would want it to be dwelt upon , but he deserves our making the imaginative effort to appreciate the scale of those climbs for a man with artificial legs . |
| 27 | But he did reconsider next day , when he saw her watching the passage of the porter from the refectory before noon , and following him with her eyes as he turned in between infirmary and schoolroom , where the two small stony cells were built into the angle of the wall , close to the wicket that led through to the mill and the pond . |
| 28 | He left her to go to the kitchen , began to run the tap , then heard her rise , to dash from the parlour — not , he hoped , to leave the house ; but , going after her , he saw her mounting the stairs to her room , to be away from him , simply because he was , for the moment at least , no longer Dr Neil , but only another member of the sex which had betrayed her . |
| 29 | He saw her examining the bed . |
| 30 | He would retain the right to appoint the Prime Minister , but with the proviso that he choose someone reflecting the majority in parliament . |