Example sentences of "[noun] to look [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not breaking my stated rule here and recommending this hotel , just saying that it is there and that if you could get the back bedrooms you would have a most remarkable scene to look out on . |
| 2 | Now , in the dream influence of the moon , Fenna told Maggie to look down on all the kingdoms of the world , and across China she saw the snaking of the Great Wall . |
| 3 | I opened the shuttered window to look out on a countryside blanketed in snow . |
| 4 | On the day John-Augustus went char fishing on Buttermere with Mr Robinson and Mary went above the woods to look down on them , Coleridge passed between them . |
| 5 | Love Books was continuing , Indica was open — although the premises rapidly became cramped — and there was Long Hair to look back on . |
| 6 | And Legal & General shareholders have better times to look back on than most . |
| 7 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 8 | I have wonderful memories to look back on . |
| 9 | If Joe had not caught her , she would be there now , walking up the dale to look down on the sleeping cottage . |
| 10 | ‘ There was one thing that struck me as a bit odd when I had a chance to look back on it . |
| 11 | Allow the viewers to look around on their own . |
| 12 | The maternal words ‘ If you do n't study hard , you 'll end up on the check-out counter at Tesco 's ’ had had , if not the intended effect , the result of causing Camille and her friends to look down on shop assistants , bank clerks and bus drivers : for more recondite reasons of their own they also held in contempt estate and travel agents and people who worked in advertising . |
| 13 | On Crag Hill I stopped at the cairn to look down on Dentdale spread below me , Helms Knott , the Howgills and the distant forms of Cross Fell , Dun Fell and , facing me , the long ridge of Barbondale . |
| 14 | At first they climbed to the heights to look down on Nature or to survey the scene — encouraging the building of ‘ stations ’ such as the Windermere Octagon ; but after Thomas Gray 's Journal of a Tour in the Lakes ( written in 1769 ) artists began to take their views from the valleys . |
| 15 | She got back on Midnight , in order to look down on Sebastian and Antony , and squared her shoulders . |
| 16 | Just off the main road on the right is a good viewpoint to look down on both the north and south sides of the island . |
| 17 | On the other hand , a shot taken from a high angle to look down on the subject diminishes it and suggests a feeling of superiority . |
| 18 | You have had a long life of service and time to look back on it and if I did not know how your arthritis troubles you and with what difficulty you pen your kind notes I would ask you to help me in this . |