Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth had called to see Mrs Johnson , looked in on one or two of the other neighbours , and was halfway up the hill to the churchyard before Maria caught up with her . |
| 2 | As they flew over the house and looked down on colourful gardens she could see a pool of some considerable size , glittering greenly in the sun , tubs of geraniums around it . |
| 3 | Like our poor parliamentary candidate , I would have no chance of being elected , but it would be a beginning , though perhaps one I would have despised several years earlier when I looked down on parish-pump politics and intended to be the first woman prime minister . |
| 4 | I looked down on those falls — ‘ the smoke that thunders ’ as the Africans used to call them , with the white plumes of spray towering above the bushes and trees ; and I thought of David Livingstone trudging , the first modern white man to find them . |
| 5 | Graham , too , looked down on theoretical work ; he did not like examinations . |
| 6 | DESPAIRING factory owner Michael Whitehead looked back on 18 years of ‘ bloody hard work ’ last night and said : ‘ I 've got nothing for all my graft . ’ |
| 7 | Either way , in later life he looked back on that experience as evidence that dancing could be part of everyday life in a way that it is not for most Europeans . |
| 8 | In Berlin , in 1940 , Joyce looked back on these incidents and tried to explain the cause of the prosecutions for assault that had been brought against him . |
| 9 | When crisis hit the watch-making trade in 1817 , the distressed watch makers looked back on prouder days when , if misfortune did befall one of their number , the " trade " not the poor rate would have taken care of him . |
| 10 | A window-hole looked out on flooded pastureland below , a ruined stable , a kitchen garden that now contained a newly built bungalow , and a working farmyard with a tractor and cows . |
| 11 | At the foot of the bed , a window looked out on dip-backed slate roofs . |
| 12 | The nurse had n't been round yet to close the curtains and Charles Paris and Harry Chiltern looked out on galvanized frames of blackness . |