Example sentences of "[pron] look [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | er I know I look like a real goody goody and everything I 'm not really ! |
| 6 | ‘ I look like a rough schooley , ’ she grins . |
| 7 | I look like a demented barber . |
| 8 | BELVILLE : I look like a fine puppy to suffer myself to be thus interrogated by an insolent sister . |
| 9 | I , you know I do n't mind , I enjoy handicraft but I find I 'm out Monday playing darts , I 'm out Tuesday doing handicraft and I look after a little boy who 's got Cerebral Palsy four mornings a week and comes three in the afternoon and it 's quite a lot . |
| 10 | Corporate audits , which look at a complete business and measure it against legislation and company environmental policy . |
| 11 | People want imitation Bernard Dunstans and little feathery bits of painting which look like a painterly painting and are n't too upsetting or dramatic . |
| 12 | His chamber is decorated almost wholly in black and midnight blue , and an 8-yard diameter circle around the Oracle 's throne is covered in thick , slimy strands which look like a gooey spider 's web . |
| 13 | When you look at a complex sponge skeleton such as that made of silica spicules which is known as Venus ' Flower Basket , the imagination is baffled . |
| 14 | The next method that is used is a method which again is familiar to people on the earth — surveyors use it all the time — and that 's what we call triangulation , and the idea there is that if you look at a distant object against an even more distant background , then the apparent direction will depend on where you 're standing , and if you move from one end to the other of a baseline , then a distant steeple , for example , will appear to move against the hills on the horizon . |
| 15 | If you look at a small child 's eyes , they are always looking in the direction in which they are moving . |
| 16 | But if you look at a modern group like those Fishbone fellas , hell they 're really into my Funkadelic stuff : ‘ Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow ’ ! |
| 17 | If you look at a full page when they happen , they do n't happen all that often on a schools portfolio which costs two thousand two hundred pounds , you 'll see there 's there 's already three different prices |
| 18 | Wittgenstein says ( 332 ) : ‘ Do not believe that you have the concept of colour within you because you look at a coloured object — however you look ’ and ( 659 ) ‘ But when I say ‘ It tastes exactly like sugar ’ , in an important sense no remembering takes place . |
| 19 | If you look at a new-born gorilla or chimpanzee they seem skinny little things compared with human babies . |
| 20 | You look at a so-called adult world , ’ she said , ‘ and people just behave ridiculously . |
| 21 | 1 comb ( for moment when you look into a magnificent eighteenth-century 18′ x 18′ mirror and suddenly realise you 're letting the whole place down with your unkempt hair ) |
| 22 | You look like a mental deficient standing there gawking . ’ |
| 23 | You look like a young priest in your black and white , no , like a novice , an apprentice monk , you view the world with shocked amazement , you need a real woman in your life . ’ |
| 24 | You look like a constipated panda . ’ |
| 25 | You look like a drowned rat nothing personal . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You look like a drowned rat , ’ he commented , raising one eyebrow . |
| 27 | ‘ You look like a new religious cult from San Francisco , ’ Nutty decided . |
| 28 | When I got home my dad took one look at it and said , you look like a bleeding nancy boy . |
| 29 | you look like a red chicken |
| 30 | You look like a sexy woman and he treated you like one . |