Example sentences of "look down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SPURS boss Terry Venables looks down at controversial new skipper Neil Ruddock , sent off during Saturday 's 2-2 draw against Palace . |
| 2 | God looks down at this cooperative effort of man trying to make himself god-like , and sees it as the beginning of worse rebellion against him . |
| 3 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
| 4 | She looks down at her shopping-and-memo list , to find a nearer focus . |
| 5 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 6 | He looks down at me . |
| 7 | [ He looks down at PAMELA . ] |
| 8 | She smiles slightly , and looks down at her hand as she runs a finger round the steel rim of the little marble-topped table . |
| 9 | Howard looks down at his plate , grinning , and pressing a few crumbs of cheese on to his fingers to nibble . |
| 10 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 11 | Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ? |
| 12 | If he looks down at his feet , his opponent will seize the opportunity to attack . |
| 13 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
| 14 | Then she looks down at him and asks softly , ‘ Have you ever thought of trying Eastern therapies ? ’ |
| 15 | Claire looks down at her brother . |
| 16 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
| 17 | Margaret looks down on people like me . |
| 18 | looks down on me from blackest space : |
| 19 | His father had died serving the Empire as one of the Black Riders and as the boy looks down on the great imperial road from the quiet house of his foster-parents he listens to tales of the powerful Count Jasper , Governor of the Citadel and commander of those orthodox forces . |
| 20 | From a height of 90 metres one looks down on an emerging pattern of roads , lakes and gardens , which will shortly be lined with pavilions from over a hundred countries . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | This is a different Switzerland , an area where places to play and places to relax somehow live side by side with that never-to-be-suppressed Swiss past , which looks down on it all , smiling benevolently but quietly insisting that the twentieth century must keep its place and show respect . |
| 23 | Looks down on the needy and the greedy now . ’ |
| 24 | Looks down on flower deck 'd fields and olive grove |
| 25 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 26 | From a gusty somewhere , God looks down on a world |
| 27 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 28 | He looks down on hi life . |
| 29 | Nor does it have much of a view , since it looks down into the stable . |
| 30 | Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice . |