Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visiting a music school in Melbourne , the royal couple looked in on a cello class that was in full swing , supervised by a delightful seventy-eight-year-old professor , Henri Touzeau . |
| 2 | He looked in on the President . |
| 3 | She made her escape from the table , boiled the kettle and looked in on the children . |
| 4 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 5 | She looked down on a motionless gathering of Mercedes , BMWs , a Range Rover and the occasional Rolls . |
| 6 | From this magnificent vantage-point on the volcanic highlands , I looked down on a seemingly endless expanse of green the Serengeti Plain . |
| 7 | High , frescoed ceilings looked down on a marble floor worn smooth over the centuries . |
| 8 | He looked down on the pretty garden and saw the two of them snoring there , their front claws tucked neatly under their chins which rested on silk cushions and their tails dipped tidily into the pond whose waters did not stir enough to move their dreams to wildness . |
| 9 | In return , the Royal Navy gloried in the title of the Senior Service and looked down on the Army and the Royal Air Force . |
| 10 | No wonder Uncle Mick grinned as he looked down on the nearly-elegant sitting-room . |
| 11 | A coffin-maker could look up to a funeral furnisher rather than to an undertaker ; an undertaker might have respected the funeral furnisher in as much as he could afford to buy in his coffins ; whereas the funeral furnisher , whilst relying on the coffin-maker , looked down on the undertaker ( Col. 2 ) . |
| 12 | Considering themselves to be superior , they cared little for the ordinary person and looked down on the sinners . |
| 13 | A large photograph of Helen looked down on the mourners . |
| 14 | Aggie looked down on the child . |
| 15 | He looked down on the bent head , but there was no response from Millie . |
| 16 | Slipping into the bed Sarah looked down on the white-blonde head and felt the familiar tightening in her guts . |
| 17 | In the dying firelight he looked down on the sleeping face of Joe the Fish . |
| 18 | From above Burtness Wood she looked down on the lake and watched the two men fishing throughout most of the morning … |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On an outcrop of rock , Kitty Dawson looked down on the valley for a few minutes . |
| 22 | Miranda lay half asleep on a sofa in front of her sitting-room window , which looked down on the Place de la République ; from there , the road led to the distant perfume factory which Miranda wanted to buy . |
| 23 | ( 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 . |
| 24 | Her window had been wide all night and as she got out of bed she looked down on the dusty heads of trees where sparrows were fussing . |
| 25 | She looked down on the men 's masks and costumes , listening to their chatter , and stayed silent . |
| 26 | All through my teens it had to be a very rainy Sunday indeed that did not find us perched on the Cow and Calf a crop of murderous rocks resembling neither cows , calves nor any other animal , ' or out at Bolton Abbey , negotiating the stepping-stones across the wide but shallow Wharfe ; or eating our sandwiches on Haworth Moor as we looked down on the Brontes ' parsonage and re-enacted the highlights from Wuthering Heights in our romantic young heads . |
| 27 | The flat looked down on the dome of the Planetarium . |
| 28 | Now in his eightieth year , Thesiger looked back on a life travelling in the Sudan , Arabia , Afghanistan , Morocco , East Africa and ‘ Eth … |
| 29 | When the Birmingham architect Joseph Crouch looked back on the nineteenth century , he reflected that ‘ the spirit of Evangelical religion in England has changed in a singular manner during the past fifty or sixty years . |
| 30 | That evening we looked back on the day with our fellow guests whose interests — from birdwatching to archaeology , cave-exploring to gliding — reflected the enormous variety of activities catered for across the region . |