Example sentences of "[conj] look down " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you stand on a hill in winter when there is a thaw or look down from a motorway , especially in the Midlands , you can hardly miss the pattern of long parallel bands of snow , which are always the last to go from the hollows of the old ridge and furrow . |
| 2 | He would turn his back on him while he was talking , or look down smiling into the mouthpiece . |
| 3 | Do not turn away or look down , while speaking . |
| 4 | Usually dancers are leered at or looked down on whenever they mention their job , so why are Tiller Girls different ? |
| 5 | One of those houses that looks down |
| 6 | Looking upwards is more tiring than looking down . |
| 7 | A lot of them treat you more as a sort of friend and an equal rather than looking down … there 's a few teachers who treat you like a child rather than like themselves , but most of them are very friendly … well , I think it 's mainly because they 're younger teachers … and there 's not such a great age gap , you know . |
| 8 | The Gardon was so full of silt ( plus the occasional dead sheep or cow ) that looking down from the third floor of the Pont du Gard it looked more like a flow of molasses than a river . |
| 9 | It is more difficult for man to look up than to look down . |
| 10 | Well , she chose to go on , up along the hump of moorland that looked down on Back Clough Dale . |
| 11 | The visitor sat back and watched the alchemy of the coffee take shape as the slightly stale odour of boiling milk permeated the room and steamed up the windows that looked down into Sauchiehall Street . |
| 12 | The track had , he recalled , two branches , separating as it dropped from the heathy ridge that looked down upon the river . |
| 13 | She stared unseeing out of the big plate-glass window that looked down on to the hotel 's rather undistinguished forecourt . |
| 14 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
| 15 | She smiles slightly , and looks down at her hand as she runs a finger round the steel rim of the little marble-topped table . |
| 16 | One-Arm runs to the window and looks down . |
| 17 | I remember standing at the back of The Lyceum and looking down at the crowd . |
| 18 | Someone was standing on the parapet , leaning over and looking down . |
| 19 | In one at the edge of the school the floor had completely disappeared and looking down Endill could watch the sea crashing against the rocks . |
| 20 | None came and still under the drug 's influence at dawn , he found himself looking out from the top of a forty-foot tree — he had no memory of climbing it — and looking down on a vast meadow , flecked with patterns of multi-coloured light and rocks which turned into horses , all of which filled him with ‘ tremendous emotions ’ . |
| 21 | Noreen felt a sharp little pain on her right arm and looking down , she saw the blood . |
| 22 | Then he was beside her , and looking down at her , and Isobel for a second was taken aback . |
| 23 | Suddenly he was there , taking off his top hat and looking down at her . ’ |
| 24 | There I was , flitting wide of the axis like a pro , zipping between the clouds , and looking down — up — 12 . |
| 25 | Looking up and looking down . |
| 26 | To his relief he found he was above the trees and looking down into a murkiness that was beginning to map itself below him into defined and recognizable shapes . |
| 27 | This seems an effort to fit a cult-statue into a building with a sacrificial pit ; and though it was in profile that one saw these statues as one came in or went out , if one looked up as one passed under the beam which hid them , one saw them again , carved in very low relief on its underside , standing frontal and looking down at one : altogether an astonishing conception . |
| 28 | Probably the most historic and also the most photogenic is that of the counts of Kyburg , perched high above woodlands and looking down fiercely on the river Toss . |
| 29 | ‘ You know , ’ Ash was saying , breathing hard and looking down the stair-well as I opened the door . |
| 30 | ‘ I do , ’ Rory said , biting his lip and looking down at his glass . |