Example sentences of "found [pron] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later we found them chatting over a game of Alma in the Railway Tavern . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's nothing glamorous about war , ’ he 'd tell the boys years later when he found them watching yet another Great American War Movie on the TV . |
| 3 | Several times , Carrie had come into the kitchen and found them giggling together . |
| 4 | At this I quickly joined them at the bottom of a long rickety iron ladder which led into the water ballast tanks and found them hauling out several cases which had been concealed there . |
| 5 | I explained the situation , after she found me jerking about on the bed one afternoon . |
| 6 | Not only was the conversation flowing more freely and loudly , we found ourselves serving out wine at a conspicuously increased rate . |
| 7 | In no time my colleagues and I found ourselves organizing not counselling sessions but darts matches in the local pub circuit . |
| 8 | When we took off again we found ourselves climbing ever more steeply through jungled mountains . |
| 9 | We found ourselves working very beautifully together , and we finished this play … |
| 10 | At one moment we were all saying more or less volubly that he could not possibly succeed ; the next we found ourselves travelling along behind him " . |
| 11 | We were taken the few miles out to Wyton by RAF transport and in a short time , smiling falsely at each other and with our cumbersome parachutes bumping round our legs , we found ourselves walking out to the plane for our first flight . |
| 12 | By concentrating hard on the papers in front of him , he gradually found himself calming down , normality taking over . |
| 13 | Her feather bobbed up and down in indignation as she talked , and Fowler , who had no wish to gaze into her eyes , found himself flinching instead at the sight of Paul Franklin 's bright yellow socks . |
| 14 | Yeremi found himself thinking passionately of that anonymous slave abandoned in the pitch-dark tube , with none of the superhuman muscle power of a Scout to help him , and fetters to mock his efforts . |
| 15 | Though his nightmares had been disturbing , Mungo found himself thinking clearly . |
| 16 | He found himself thinking solemnly about her bone structure , going on and on about it in his head , but put a stop to that because his thoughts sounded like the conversation of fashion photographers . |
| 17 | As he got on his bike , Jack found himself trembling slightly . |
| 18 | He found himself considering how different were these two sisters , Agnes vehement , voluble , exclamatory ; Mariot quiet , with a sort of serenity to her , but warm somehow he felt — where the other might be hot . |
| 19 | He found himself looking round for Slater as she put one hand on the mantelpiece and slipped her shoe back on , fastening the strap again . |
| 20 | ‘ Good day to thee , sire , ’ Blind Hugh began , and found himself looking up into a face with four eyes in it . |
| 21 | When the guard came to he found himself looking up into the wild-eyed face of a wizard , who was menacing his throat with a sword . |
| 22 | Grant found himself looking up at an attractive dark haired nurse . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The gate swung outwards , and he found himself looking up at the massive head of a yawning dragon with creased cheek and jowl and a lolling red tongue . |
| 25 | There were further rattles of machine-gun fire and Rex found himself looking up at a troubled sky . |
| 26 | Hazel reached the hedge , crossed a narrow turf verge on the other side and found himself looking straight down a long , shadowy aisle between two rows of beans . |
| 27 | He turned over and tried to relax , but found himself looking downward through the metal grille which the Eden team had welded across the curved Lift surfaces as a floor , wondering what kind of anatomy would have been suited to use the original surface . |
| 28 | None came and still under the drug 's influence at dawn , he found himself looking out from the top of a forty-foot tree — he had no memory of climbing it — and looking down on a vast meadow , flecked with patterns of multi-coloured light and rocks which turned into horses , all of which filled him with ‘ tremendous emotions ’ . |
| 29 | Tom found himself looking down the barrel of a gun . |
| 30 | This thought came into Charles 's already overcrowded mind , and he found himself looking off into the wings , whence the fatal shot had come . |