Example sentences of "[pers pn] look [prep] a [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | I look at a book , and I drink warm milk . |
| 13 | Everytime I receive Wimpey News I look for a mention of where I work . |
| 14 | Probably that I 'm a genius and that I look like a donkey — or something like that |
| 15 | I look like a schoolgirl ! ’ she said to herself . |
| 16 | ‘ How can I relax when I look like a blancmange covered in maraschino cherries ? ’ |
| 17 | I look like a witch there . |
| 18 | I look like a witch there . |
| 19 | ‘ THE next person who says I look like a Blues Brother , gets it , ’ says Suggs while brandishing a brolly at the Madness reunion gig on Saturday . |
| 20 | What do you mean , I look like a bum ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Oh I look like a model there . |
| 23 | " Toast , I look like a piece of toast . " |
| 24 | I look like a train spotter . ’ |
| 25 | " But then , what else could I be when I look like a scarecrow and smell like a fox ? " |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I look like a fly trap , yeah . |
| 28 | ‘ Oh well , at least I look like a doctor ! |
| 29 | I wonder how I look in a sarong ? |
| 30 | It is they , too , who lend him/her money for the journey and help him/her look for a job in the urban environment . |