Example sentences of "[pron] look at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look at a garden before me as if I am a camera that can throw reality out of focus and can twist and contort and blur . |
| 2 | When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought . |
| 3 | When I look at a Picasso which is using a lot of colours and I look at something else , for some reason I know that Picasso is using colour well , and the other person is n't . |
| 4 | When I look at a picture of a naked man , I can think like Richard Dyer : ‘ I 'd like to feel that man and I 'd like to be that man . ’ |
| 5 | When I look at a Picasso which is using a lot of colours and I look at something else , for some reason I know that Picasso is using colour well , and the other person is n't . |
| 6 | For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle . |
| 7 | Here perhaps we would like to reply : The description of what is got immediately , i.e. of the visual experience , by means of an interpretation — in an indirect description , ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means : I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . |
| 8 | But we can also see the illustration now as one thing , now as another ’ , Wittgenstein imagines someone like Locke — though he does not mention Locke — saying that ‘ I see the figure as a box ’ means ‘ I have a particular visual experience which I have found that I always have when I interpret the figure as a box or when I look at a box . ’ |
| 9 | So if I have associated the right word — say , the word blue — with the right impression — the impression I get when I look at a cornflower — there is no fear of my language not mirroring reality as there is if I talk about fate or fortune , these not being words for simple ideas impressed on my mind by external objects . |
| 10 | I look at a photograph of my father still in uniform , taken at Loch Lomond before he was demobbed , as he stands smiling between his younger brother and the English friend he had met in an Italian POW camp . |
| 11 | But suppose I look at a clock on the ground floor — through binoculars , say . |
| 12 | I look at a book , and I drink warm milk . |
| 13 | I look at a person and if you like me you like me |
| 14 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 15 | Corporate audits , which look at a complete business and measure it against legislation and company environmental policy . |
| 16 | If you look at a dissection of the human arm you can see that the string-like tendons which attach to the fingers are joined further back in the arm , to the muscles . |
| 17 | Perhaps , when you look at a velvet lawn you actually see the colour which I call ‘ red ’ . |
| 18 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
| 19 | I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it . |
| 20 | If you look at a bar code it will normally be accompanied by a long number ( usually eight or thirteen digits long ) . |
| 21 | I just want a big comfortable feel , so you look at a sofa and want to curl up in it . ’ |
| 22 | You look at a so-called adult world , ’ she said , ‘ and people just behave ridiculously . |
| 23 | Whenever you look at a photograph of the Sun you see that the face sports dark blobs . |
| 24 | But if you look at a modern group like those Fishbone fellas , hell they 're really into my Funkadelic stuff : ‘ Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow ’ ! |
| 25 | Jones said : ‘ If you look at a war , there was always the lad who carried the flag , or the emblem of a country . |
| 26 | Wittgenstein says ( 332 ) : ‘ Do not believe that you have the concept of colour within you because you look at a coloured object — however you look ’ and ( 659 ) ‘ But when I say ‘ It tastes exactly like sugar ’ , in an important sense no remembering takes place . |
| 27 | I 'm interested in the process you go through when you look at a painting . |
| 28 | When you look at a complex sponge skeleton such as that made of silica spicules which is known as Venus ' Flower Basket , the imagination is baffled . |
| 29 | The Club Eighteen Thirty idea is much along similar lines , and if you look at a Club Eighteen Thirty brochure , the sort of activities people do together , bringing people together . |
| 30 | Okay so now whenever you look at a package holiday brochure , you should be able to identify the market just using two words sunlust alocentric , wanderlust psychocentric and so on . |