Example sentences of "[pers pn] look [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I look down the other side of the island on to tall fields of barley , stands of eucalyptus .
2 When I look towards the Merchiston Castle here , I wonder what John Napier who lived here from 1550 to 1627 would have said could he see us today .
3 Sometimes I look through the catalogue at the men 's clothes , or wander into shops like Principles and look at the menswear .
4 I look through the crowd at the steep stairs to the upper office .
5 I look through the letter-box but I ca n't see anything ; I reach in and feel a box on the far side of the thick door .
6 I look through the window — the streets , the sky the colour of wet sugar — and I am simply stumped by this , dumbfounded , non-plussed .
7 I look through the blinds .
8 The undercut cave is dark and mysterious but the lightness of the sandy bottom becomes apparent as I look across the bend , the water becoming shallower as I scan across to the inside of the bend .
9 Our square red-brick house stands some 100 yards away ( as I look into the Sun ) with its french windows open .
10 I stay in bed and pluck at the counterpane and listen to the winds of solitude roaring at the edge of infinity and the wolves of evil baying down the void , and I look into the darkness . ’
11 Could you carry on here while I look into the shipping side of things ? "
12 Some snatch of verse from a Jacobean tragedy flashed through his mind : ‘ When I look into the fishponds in my garden , methinks I see a thing , armed with a rake , that seems to strike at me . ’
13 As a member in business , I look on the Institute 's failure to address the problem of conflicts between the two roles with concern .
14 Sometimes this was stated explicitly , as by a physiotherapist : ‘ I look on the disability as being the overall diagnosis … to me the children have got a disability , i.e. spina bifida , cerebral palsy , to me that 's the disability .
15 DENNING L.J. : I look on the father 's letter as dealing with two things .
16 ‘ At present I look to the judiciary for advice on the time to be served to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence and to the Parole Board for advice on risk .
17 I look to the TV , the video recorder .
18 I look to the current discussions , and also to the United States , to give the ground that is needed .
19 The trusts have clearly passed that test , and I look to the hon. Gentleman to admit that .
20 I look to the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook when I say that I am not clear about the precise intention that lies behind the phrase in new clause 2 , which refers to ’ satisfactory access to advice and representation ’ — this is for applicants — ’ from advisers and representatives of their choice ’ .
21 I look to the day when the , to see what the tabloids make , when one of these individuals gets clobbered over the head er , in carrying out their duties .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 . ’
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 . ’
30 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 .
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