Example sentences of "looking [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge , unmistakeable even looking through a letter box , and by Lionel Jeffries for his affecting rendition of : The troops are ready to mutiny , The colonel is missing or dead , When up steps a bold , young lieutenant And places himself at the head . |
2 | ‘ The work is an incredible carrier of anxiety , ’ John Caldwell , curator for painting and sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , says of the Biennale piece , ‘ In a pornographic movie , the people never look at the camera because we need to sense that we 're looking through a window , we 're safe , we 're the voyeur . |
3 | — imagining the Eiger looking through a telescope into our bedroom . |
4 | They were looking through a box of embroidery threads when the child started to cry . |
5 | The shape seemed to be looking through a book , although what the book was Henry could not tell . |
6 | It is like looking through a magic window into the real world of natural irradiation . |
7 | Terry had taken off his trousers by now , and two women in the cast were looking through a gap in the curtain as he prepared to propagate his analysis of Pyke . |
8 | But this , of course , does not mean that they are not enjoying your company , if you show that you are quite happy just to sit quietly with them , looking through a newspaper or reading a book ; for silence is for sharing too on the right occasions . |
9 | If you find it difficult to track down suitably small flowers , looking through a book of alpine plants , or visiting a specialist nursery , could provide you with plenty of inspiration . |
10 | , writes : WHILE LOOKING through a book of Royal photos the other day I noticed that Prince Charles seems to wear kilts of different tartans . |
11 | Although it is sometimes simulated by looking through a peephole , this gives only a crude approximation of the condition . |
12 | Looking through a bubble |
13 | This light will interact with other incident light through the optical phenomenon of interference , and this will degrade the quality of the retinal image around the optic disc , which the patient perceived ‘ as looking through a bubble . ’ |
14 | A sort of heat haze , as opposed to the intense burning sensation of the stripe paintings , emerges as if we are looking through a veil or over a great distance at flat lands . |
15 | Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted . |
16 | The difficulty is well illustrated by the facts of Nicholson v. Gage , in which a Peeping Tom was caught in a public lavatory looking through a hole in the wall into the women 's lavatory . |
17 | The game starts off with a view looking through a camera which can be moved around the course using arrow icons . |
18 | Looking through a window . |
19 | He 's looking through a window , erm any advance on that ? |
20 | The Few : Veteran pilots ( from left ) , Flt Lt Matthew Cameron , Sqd Ldr Noel Curry DFC , Sqd Ldr Winder McConnell and Wing Cdr Kenneth Mackenzie at the Ulster Flying Club 's Wings night in Newtownards looking through a Battle of Britain anniversary brochure . |
21 | Or you may see exactly what you would see by looking through the glass at any point . |
22 | It 's bad enough looking through the new sections and the main articles and seeing nothing mentioned less than E4 , 6b . |
23 | The unfurnished rent for a bedroom looking through the tree tops to Wilton Place , a long-windowed living room overlooking Hyde Park , and access to my own flat roof , was £2 per week in those halcyon days . |
24 | Whose face would it be , looking through the small square window behind us ? |
25 | She 's looking through the dress rail . |
26 | You have free access to the family outside their house , but when they are inside you can investigate them only by looking through the windows of their house . |
27 | Some , like the Stand-off Land Attack Missile , SLAM , or the Israeli-produced Have Nap , can be ‘ flown ’ by pilots looking through the missile 's television eye , while sitting at a safe remove in aircraft . |
28 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
29 | ‘ Caspar , ’ said Lee , jumping up and looking through the trees . |
30 | Looking through the metal bars , hypnotized by the revolving wheel , he could see his own body , broken arms and legs flopping grotesquely , bouncing from girder to girder on its way down . |