Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] look down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wiped the sweat from his eyes and looked down at the automatic in his hand . |
| 2 | The priest rested his elbows on his knees and looked down at the floor . |
| 3 | The lassitude still on her , she came slowly to her feet and looked down at the boy , who stood up , shifting uneasily . |
| 4 | Fulke shuffled his feet and looked down at the floor . |
| 5 | Regrettably , even today , there are a number of health service insiders who feel that they are an exception to these general rules and look down on the ways of industry with the patronizing assurance of those who know that ‘ we are different ’ . |
| 6 | Polly felt a blush warm her cheeks and looked down at the food . |
| 7 | She moved to the head of the stairs and looked down into the hallway , listening to his footsteps approaching the front door . |
| 8 | I recall her pacing the sitting-room while I am doing my homework , pausing every so often to stand at one of the windows and look down into the busy street below . |
| 9 | 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 . |