Example sentences of "i look [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine .
2 But suppose I look at a clock on the ground floor — through binoculars , say .
3 I look at a person and if you like me you like me
4 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 . ’
5 I look at a garden before me as if I am a camera that can throw reality out of focus and can twist and contort and blur .
6 I look at a photograph of my father still in uniform , taken at Loch Lomond before he was demobbed , as he stands smiling between his younger brother and the English friend he had met in an Italian POW camp .
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 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 .
9 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 . ’
10 I look at a book , and I drink warm milk .
11 Everytime I receive Wimpey News I look for a mention of where I work .
12 Probably that I 'm a genius and that I look like a donkey — or something like that
13 I look like a schoolgirl ! ’ she said to herself .
14 ‘ How can I relax when I look like a blancmange covered in maraschino cherries ? ’
15 I look like a witch there .
16 I look like a witch there .
17 What do you mean , I look like a bum ?
18 I know people have written saying that I look like a nun , or could have been a nun , but that 's the last thing I would want to be .
19 Oh I look like a model there .
20 " Toast , I look like a piece of toast . "
21 I look like a train spotter . ’
22 " But then , what else could I be when I look like a scarecrow and smell like a fox ? "
23 I look like a refugee from a Verdi opera , stranded in the damp gentle valleys of South West England , where no one has yet introduced me to wellington boots or the useful strategy of invisibility .
24 I look like a fly trap , yeah .
25 ‘ Oh well , at least I look like a doctor !
26 I wonder how I look in a sarong ?
27 BELVILLE : Do I look like a man shackled , my fairest nun ?
28 Do I look like a schoolteacher ? ’
29 ‘ Do I look like a half wit ? ’ he snapped , pulling his hand back hastily .
30 ‘ Do I look like a widow ? ’ came the snappy response .
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