Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | He had long ago noticed that if you stared at a customs officer when going out through the green channel , the customs officer stopped you . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We must consider that when we look at an alternative structure for the present arrangements for meat hygiene inspection . |
| 6 | Now the big mistake was this it was n't of ve of very great importance who governed North er North or South Korea , er they were n't particularly important strategic areas , they did n't have er important ports or , or er or base facilities or any resources then erm the mistake was in fact to directly challenge Chinese security , and if you looked at a map you 'll see in fact how this er came about . |
| 7 | The Club Eighteen Thirty idea is much along similar lines , and if you look at a Club Eighteen Thirty brochure , the sort of activities people do together , bringing people together . |
| 8 | And if you look at an insect walking , that 's exactly what it does . |
| 9 | Death is a tragedy ( ! ) and whether it strikes at an eight-year-old youngster 3. ) or a senile old man , a scar is always left on one 4. ) of the survivors — a scar that does not heal quickly . |
| 10 | In keeping with the rest of the terrain , the land formed hills and valleys , and as she gazed at a hillside Lucy thought that never before had she seen so many different shades of green . |
| 11 | 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 ’ ! |
| 12 | This does n't come automatically to a dyslexic person very often , and we also look at letters from left to right , but if you look at a u and then turn it upside down in your mind , you have an n , or h and y can be reversed to turn into each other , if you like , in the same way . |
| 13 | Driving away , I noticed that the vast chimney was still not functioning , but when I called at a neighbouring house a woman showed me videos she had taken of smoke coming from the plant , settling in her garden . |
| 14 | Because if you look at a problem , and you read through , have someone to work it out you say yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah , and that 's yeah obvious . |