Example sentences of "looked down [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they went up , he looked down through the skeleton of the wheel with its spindly metal bones . |
| 2 | You 'd better know now that I 've always avoided every snare set out for me , even those hidden in lush undergrowth … ’ he caressed her hair lightly , his eyes sultry , and then looked down towards the swell of her breasts ‘ … and innocent-looking hills and valleys . ’ |
| 3 | I looked down towards the end of the straight . |
| 4 | From the train we looked down over the clutter of the rooftops , things broken , things abandoned , things stored and forgotten : broken water-jugs , wheel-less bicycles , rolls of rush matting . |
| 5 | The texture of the novel is in part created by the juxtaposition of dead metaphors and new ones created by slight adjustments to the normal patterns of the language : " … the sun looked down into the top of the dead tree and breathed warmly on the two people " ( p. 142 ) . |
| 6 | When she looked down into the channel with Gazzer and saw Simon , water swilling round his waist , she could hardly believe that she was responsible . |
| 7 | Phyllis stood by the fence and looked down to the lines at the bottom . |
| 8 | On an outcrop of rock , Kitty Dawson looked down on the valley for a few minutes . |
| 9 | As the poets say — ’ he could not bring to mind a single line and so he stopped , and looked down on the lake as if in mourning , intuiting , correctly , that this would have the same effect as a couplet . |
| 10 | ( And in the alleyway behind The Gilded Cage , the three teenagers crouched high amidst the rubbish and looked down on the body of the middle-aged woman that they 'd just uncovered . |
| 11 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 12 | The flat looked down on the dome of the Planetarium . |
| 13 | She 'd removed her ripped stockings earlier and now , as she looked down at the patchwork of scratches and grazes , she was relieved that there had n't been more damage . |
| 14 | She looked down at the notes on the small side table , and then pulled off her wore framed pince-nez . |
| 15 | Emmie looked down at the top of his head ; his hair was black and silky and he wore it rather long , like an artist . |
| 16 | He looked down at the scatter of handwritten pages spread all over the table , and tensed his body as though anticipating a blow . |
| 17 | They sat at a table and looked down at the lights of the shipping in the Tagus . |
| 18 | Except — ’ He looked down at the trenches of scattered earth . |
| 19 | She looked down at the sheet of paper on her desk . |
| 20 | Hennessy looked down at the slip of paper that he was being offered . |
| 21 | He wiped the sweat from his eyes and looked down at the automatic in his hand . |
| 22 | Hazel looked down at the road in astonishment . |
| 23 | Masklin relaxed a bit , and looked down at the figures in the sand . |
| 24 | ‘ If you do n't keep in that fall , I 'm stopping your sweets , ’ he said , and then looked down at the mass of Arthur on the ground . |
| 25 | Morton looked down at the toe of his boot . |
| 26 | Half in and half out of the window , Jack looked down at the scene below him in disappointment . |
| 27 | Next day and the day after that Mr Flemyng rode his horse along the slope south of the town , as though to exercise his dogs , and looked down at the site through an opera-glass , trying to make out whether the workmen were forming a mob . |
| 28 | Andra looked down at the concoction in the dusty glass in front of him . |
| 29 | She shivered , looked down at the ring on her finger . |
| 30 | And for the first time , she got a response , for Isobel bobbed her head slightly and then looked down at the infant in the cot . |