Example sentences of "see [art] figure " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he turned he caught a glimpse of something go past the open door , he dashed outside in time to see the figure of the old tramp going towards the slope as if to climb up and away . |
| 2 | As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film . |
| 3 | Another flash of lightning allowed him to see the figure of a woman running towards the rick . |
| 4 | People who are good at seeing the figure ground relationships in pictures tend also to be good at sentence-completion exercises , word analogies , problem solving , and so on . |
| 5 | She ran for her life , never seeing the figure detach itself from the wall , as she did in that far off childhood nightmare . |
| 6 | For that , on Locke 's understanding of how visual sensations are related to impressions on the retina , is the same in the two cases of my seeing the figure as a drawing of a duck and my seeing it as a drawing of a rabbit . |
| 7 | In 208 he writes : ‘ I want to ask : what constitutes seeing the figure now like this , now another way ? |
| 8 | Glancing round at Ursula , Charlotte realized she too had seen the figure . |
| 9 | Had Charles Sunderby imagined it , or had he really seen the figure of a man standing frozen at the wheel ? |
| 10 | His sharp eyes had seen a figure moving in the darkness in front of us , and as the man came closer , I could see that it was indeed Stapleton . |
| 11 | She was so busy thinking about the people upstairs that she did not see the figure standing in the shadows of the kitchen doorway . |
| 12 | She could see the figure of a man in the shadows . |
| 13 | Nigger could vaguely see a figure sitting on the stone slab on the left hand side of the small room . |
| 14 | On approaching the pub they could see a figure in a black T-shirt with white lettering through the opaque glass of the gents ' toilet . |
| 15 | He could see a figure within the Lift detach itself from the group and glance quickly in his direction . |
| 16 | He thought he could see a figure moving in front of him . |
| 17 | Two years ago , Capitol police reported seeing a figure who looked like Senator Thomas Hart Benton — thought to have left the premises in 1855 — sitting at his old desk in an historical display . |
| 18 | Occupied in their garden on a June day in 1797 , they looked up to see a figure standing in a gateway at the top of the gentle slope one hundred yards from the mansion . |
| 19 | ‘ There was enough light from the moon and from the light in the house to see a figure . ’ |
| 20 | A sound caused her to jump slightly and she half turned to see a figure silhouetted in the doorway . |
| 21 | Then he saw the figure standing by the water trough and his voice faded away , with an apologetic , lop-sided grin . |
| 22 | He saw the figure in the yellow dress become smaller and smaller . |
| 23 | Without thinking she snapped off a shot towards him , and through the blur of sweat in her eyes saw the figure spin , and lurch . |
| 24 | There by the light of an adjoining street lamp he clearly saw the figure of a station master or porter wearing a flat-topped regulation hat apparently waiting for a train . |
| 25 | My informant thinks that what he saw was genuine and was certain that someone was down there , his mate in the other box was equally sure that he too saw the figure . |
| 26 | If the person never saw the figure otherwise than as he does now , to say that he interprets what he sees in a certain way may be taken — because of ( 1 ) above — to imply that all seeing involves ( a ) the immediate awareness of something uninterpreted and ( b ) the interpretation of it in the light of past experience . |
| 27 | She inhaled sharply when she saw the figure there . |
| 28 | Even Mortimer felt a tingle of horror as he saw the figure approach Ace and laugh , but he was momentarily taken aback when Ace 's hands suddenly whipped round and grabbed the man 's shoulders , and she kneed him swiftly in the groin . |
| 29 | George stopped and Libby crouched beside him , waiting until her eyes saw the figure by the tree . |
| 30 | Er and when you saw the figure or figures did you say anything then ? |