Example sentences of "when [pers pn] look [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I looked over the edge there was no sign of him , or of the river — only the mist swirling . |
| 2 | But when I looked at the date , my father could only have been about twelve year old you see , when these letters were written so it must have been my grandfather writing to Coventry and Birmingham for parts for the penny farthing bicycles which he worked on . |
| 3 | And when I looked at the clock , I was on time and . |
| 4 | Yet when I looked at the bottle , the label told me that the wine had a decidedly non-classic provenance . |
| 5 | Erm you probably all know Murphy 's law that what can go wrong will go wrong , when I looked at the Oil Service Industry in last year , I rather think that Murphy was a bit of an optimist myself . |
| 6 | ‘ When I looked at the archive material , I was surprised at what the censor passed rather than what was hushed up . |
| 7 | While there are problems in the class , … when I looked at the programme I could see that problems that are caused because you are not explaining yourself , you are not getting them down to work , they do n't understand what they 're doing . |
| 8 | Greater Manchester West is my first choice , not Greater Manchester East , and when I looked at the vote in the last contest , back in nineteen eighty eight , when the erm then Alliance , or the ex-Alliance vote was split between the social erm liberal democrats as they were then , and the S D P , and saw the votes I had to beat this time , six thousand nine hundred , I thought I can look good next to that . |
| 9 | ‘ The guides claimed to have taken us to the edge of the Sahara but when I looked on a map it was the Atlas mountains , the bastards . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ That 's just what I said to myself when I woke up this morning , but when I looked on the floor , there was the veil , torn in two halves ! ’ |
| 11 | Images , when I looked into the water . ’ |
| 12 | When I looked into the future and saw a life shared with Ellen in a house in the country , dogs , kids , mowing the lawn , I panicked . |
| 13 | When I looked in a mirror , I could n't believe it . |
| 14 | But when I looked in the ZZAP ! |
| 15 | Although I was still ‘ tiny ’ ( a word used by one of them at the time ) by any normal standards , when I looked in the mirror , I saw someone who appeared to me to be ‘ gross ’ — a favourite word with anorexics , as Minuchin shows . |
| 16 | When I looked in the mirror and told myself , first , ‘ that ca n't be me ’ , and later , ‘ that wo n't be me ’ , what I was seeing was a woman . |
| 17 | If only that was what I felt when I looked in the mirror , instead of anxiety over these little springs of steel . |
| 18 | And er she says , sh she said you came round the corner too quick , you were n't there when I looked in the mirror ! |
| 19 | No , it 's alright , I was looking in here , because I mean , it , I er , you know , I saw in the er , when I looked in the manual it said it did n't pay out on H I V , so it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ How can I relax when I look like a blancmange covered in maraschino cherries ? ’ |
| 26 | " But then , what else could I be when I look like a scarecrow and smell like a fox ? " |
| 27 | And now when I look round the garden I can say that 's Diane and |
| 28 | I 'm not sure what I 'm aiming for when I look in the mirror . |
| 29 | Where was the little girl , or er younger I do n't want to make up because , but now I feeling I 'm aged it , I should be wearing some make up here , with just a feeling we should be , when I look in the mirror oh its getting old so |
| 30 | Now , when I look in the bin tomorrow I wan na see something to tell . |