Example sentences of "i look at [art] " 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 The first and last thing I look at every day is his picture .
16 The pretence that this is not so is what makes me sick , he wrote , when I look at the works of the past .
17 In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries .
18 I look at the temperature controller .
19 I look at the mothers to whom I am going to have say it and I say ‘ bloody hell , if I was in her shoes how would I feel , what would I do ? ’
20 I look at the charts every week .
21 I look at the dress .
22 I look at the back of her head for a minute .
23 I look at the false leg for a bit while he pulls up his trouser leg .
24 I know what I see when I look at the grass and I have been told that the colour is called ‘ green ’ .
25 As I look at the water I hear a distinctive slurp as a chub sucks some morsel through the surface ; then I see the rings rippling away from the spot where it happened .
26 During the spring , I look at the new beech leaves .
27 It is currently 35 degrees Fahrenheit out and the wind is blowing up the canyon at 87 mph hour which gives us a wind chill factor of — just a moment while I look at the chart — says ‘ Should not be skiing ’ which is good because we are n't .
28 ‘ He knows I look at the forest , ’ she said .
29 This sounds logical , but when I look at the Sega or Nintendo where there 's no piracy , you still have to pay a fortune for one single game .
30 ‘ So when I look at the books now and I see all the symbols and all the stuff they do , I think ‘ Well , I 've already played this , and I 'm not really interested in reading it ! ’
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