Example sentences of "[pers pn] look [prep] 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 | In addition to classic injunctions such as ‘ I look for a marked reduction in the number of problems put forward for discussion in Ministerial Committees ’ , in the terse Major Attlee style , the paper contains a passage which is pure Brook : ‘ The Cabinet Committee system has a valuable part to play in the central machinery of government , both in relieving the pressure on the Cabinet itself and in helping to give practical effect to the principle of collective responsibility at times when the Cabinet does not include all Ministers in charge of Departments . ’ |
| 16 | Everytime I receive Wimpey News I look for a mention of where I work . |
| 17 | It 's great , Frankie boy ; I 'm keeping to the fields and the woods and walking a lot and getting lifts and when I get near a town I look for a good fat juicy dog and I make friends with it and take it out to the woods and then I kill it and eat it . |
| 18 | I look like a refugee from a Verdi opera , stranded in the damp gentle valleys of South West England , where no one has yet introduced me to wellington boots or the useful strategy of invisibility . |
| 19 | What do you mean , I look like a bum ? |
| 20 | ‘ THE next person who says I look like a Blues Brother , gets it , ’ says Suggs while brandishing a brolly at the Madness reunion gig on Saturday . |
| 21 | Probably that I 'm a genius and that I look like a donkey — or something like that |
| 22 | I look like a train spotter . ’ |
| 23 | " But then , what else could I be when I look like a scarecrow and smell like a fox ? " |
| 24 | " Toast , I look like a piece of toast . " |
| 25 | ‘ I look like a rough schooley , ’ she grins . |
| 26 | BELVILLE : I look like a fine puppy to suffer myself to be thus interrogated by an insolent sister . |
| 27 | I know people have written saying that I look like a nun , or could have been a nun , but that 's the last thing I would want to be . |
| 28 | ‘ How can I relax when I look like a blancmange covered in maraschino cherries ? ’ |
| 29 | I look like a schoolgirl ! ’ she said to herself . |
| 30 | ‘ Oh well , at least I look like a doctor ! |