Example sentences of "looking [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking through a bubble |
| 2 | This light will interact with other incident light through the optical phenomenon of interference , and this will degrade the quality of the retinal image around the optic disc , which the patient perceived ‘ as looking through a bubble . ’ |
| 3 | Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted . |
| 4 | The Few : Veteran pilots ( from left ) , Flt Lt Matthew Cameron , Sqd Ldr Noel Curry DFC , Sqd Ldr Winder McConnell and Wing Cdr Kenneth Mackenzie at the Ulster Flying Club 's Wings night in Newtownards looking through a Battle of Britain anniversary brochure . |
| 5 | ‘ The work is an incredible carrier of anxiety , ’ John Caldwell , curator for painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , says of the Biennale piece , ‘ In a pornographic movie , the people never look at the camera because we need to sense that we 're looking through a window , we 're safe , we 're the voyeur . |
| 6 | Looking through a window . |
| 7 | He 's looking through a window , erm any advance on that ? |
| 8 | Although it is sometimes simulated by looking through a peephole , this gives only a crude approximation of the condition . |
| 9 | A sort of heat haze , as opposed to the intense burning sensation of the stripe paintings , emerges as if we are looking through a veil or over a great distance at flat lands . |
| 10 | The difficulty is well illustrated by the facts of Nicholson v. Gage , in which a Peeping Tom was caught in a public lavatory looking through a hole in the wall into the women 's lavatory . |
| 11 | But this , of course , does not mean that they are not enjoying your company , if you show that you are quite happy just to sit quietly with them , looking through a newspaper or reading a book ; for silence is for sharing too on the right occasions . |
| 12 | The game starts off with a view looking through a camera which can be moved around the course using arrow icons . |
| 13 | They were looking through a box of embroidery threads when the child started to cry . |
| 14 | Terry had taken off his trousers by now , and two women in the cast were looking through a gap in the curtain as he prepared to propagate his analysis of Pyke . |
| 15 | — imagining the Eiger looking through a telescope into our bedroom . |
| 16 | The shape seemed to be looking through a book , although what the book was Henry could not tell . |
| 17 | If you find it difficult to track down suitably small flowers , looking through a book of alpine plants , or visiting a specialist nursery , could provide you with plenty of inspiration . |
| 18 | , writes : WHILE LOOKING through a book of Royal photos the other day I noticed that Prince Charles seems to wear kilts of different tartans . |
| 19 | I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge , unmistakeable even looking through a letter box , and by Lionel Jeffries for his affecting rendition of : The troops are ready to mutiny , The colonel is missing or dead , When up steps a bold , young lieutenant And places himself at the head . |
| 20 | Russell 's eyes followed her every move as if he were looking through the sight of a gun . |
| 21 | The unfurnished rent for a bedroom looking through the tree tops to Wilton Place , a long-windowed living room overlooking Hyde Park , and access to my own flat roof , was £2 per week in those halcyon days . |
| 22 | She opened her briefcase , and started looking through the papers in it . |
| 23 | Patrick was looking through the Kawasaki brochures he had sent for when he heard her handbell summoning him . |
| 24 | Erm , looking through the rest of the paper , there 's a mistake in paragraph three , where it says cost of inspections was six hundred and fifty hundred , that should be six hundred and fifty thousand . |
| 25 | He took out pencil and paper and began looking through the letters . |
| 26 | Looking through the metal bars , hypnotized by the revolving wheel , he could see his own body , broken arms and legs flopping grotesquely , bouncing from girder to girder on its way down . |
| 27 | Rincewind made the mistake of glancing downwards , and found himself looking through the dragon to the treetops below . |
| 28 | Notice how the first step of looking through the window is less threatening than the second one of opening the door . |
| 29 | Marcelle , looking through the window from her corner seat , wrinkled her sensitive nose at the grimy roofs and façades of houses and buildings , the train steaming towards Clapham at a steady speed . |
| 30 | We spent a lot of time looking through the window at ‘ pictures ’ . |