Example sentences of "a [noun sg] looking at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wander round the park a bit looking at the trees and stuff . |
| 2 | I am a present looking at the dozen or so cones sitting on the floor and am making up my mind to do something with them , but even with ingenious ideas , how does one find time with all that knitting to do ? |
| 3 | Brenton , in a study looking at the feasibility of the voluntary sector replacing the statutory sector to some degree in the provision of personal services , concludes : |
| 4 | Down a little tunnel at the Mesdag museum , up a flight of stairs , and you are standing atop a dune looking at an enormous 360-degree panorama painted in 1881 . |
| 5 | For television , what began with the appointment in March 1985 of Professor Alan Peacock to chair a committee looking at the financing of the BBC , has turned into a radical shake-up of commercial TV which , for the moment , leaves the BBC largely unscathed . |
| 6 | I stood for a moment looking at the mattress on the bed where a knife had been used to open up the sides . |
| 7 | One can imagine someone in a room looking at a beautiful painting , drinking in the details and the way in which they combine to constitute the lovely whole , and there being nothing beyond this observer and the object of his contemplation . |
| 8 | Almost like a rabbit looking at a snake , the mind is in a vice of non-comprehension . |
| 9 | An eighteenth-century black-chalk drawing of a woman looking at a portrait miniature , annotated with extensive notes about fabrics and colours , catalogued by Sotheby 's New York as by the ‘ Circle of Marie Louise Elizabeth Vigee LeBrun ’ in their Old Master drawings sale of 13 January , has turned out to be an exceedingly rare study by this artist . |
| 10 | Why do n't you do a page a month looking at the old struggles of the 60's/70's/80 's and what the situation is now . |
| 11 | " I 've been in the Pacific islands for a month looking at the plantations there , " replied Lepine in an uninterested voice . |
| 12 | I sat in a corner looking at the Dutchmen who smiled surreptitiously from the platform . |
| 13 | A day-school looking at the structure and fabric of plant and animal life , organised by the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education . |
| 14 | ‘ I think lawyers have been too much looking from the law outwards rather than as a client looking at the law from the outside . |