Example sentences of "when [pers pn] [vb base] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We 've all seen it when you arrive at a new prison . |
| 9 | Perhaps , when you look at a velvet lawn you actually see the colour which I call ‘ red ’ . |
| 10 | I 'm interested in the process you go through when you look at a painting . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Assuming you are going to want to use the material as a normal part of a normal lesson , when you look at a drama you will be looking for short segments which can stand on their own sufficiently to make sense as an independent sequence . |
| 13 | ‘ When you look at a man like that he 'd want to believe anything you said , ’ Travis declared huskily . |
| 14 | I did n't mean that I meant when you look at a tree it 's sort of got |
| 15 | It is easy enough to send information at the speed of light : after all , we do exactly this when we wave at a friend or , to be more subtle , use any form of sign language . |
| 16 | When we look at a house in the distance and we see a small house — say half an inch high — surrounded by trees two inches high , we are not fooled into perceiving them as small . |
| 17 | What really happens when we look at a globe , or a painting ? |
| 18 | Should we not be suspicious of postmodern critiques of the ‘ subject ’ when they surface at a historical moment when many subjugated people feel themselves coming to voice for the first time … . |