Example sentences of "look [adv prt] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 2 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 3 | ( 65 ) " I shall now select my Empress ! " he said , looking down on the cowering people . |
| 4 | The three grown people stand looking down on the sleeping infant whose soft breathing seems to have spread the tawny bloom over its ivory skin . |
| 5 | So did Sean and Michael and the family and most of the congregation , except old Emmet , who was still asleep and Jock , who sat in the choir balcony with his arms folded , looking down on the Latin mumbo-jumbo with Presbyterian disapproval . |
| 6 | And Jackdaws Castle which sits high on the Cotswolds is now looking down on the racing world … |
| 7 | When the old man came into the yard she pointed towards the coalhouse ; the next minute , looking down on the bloodied form , he said , ‘ God in heaven ! ’ |
| 8 | Playing the fringes of the metropolis , Lily had used to hope that one day , looking up on the prompt side , she would see one of George Edwardes 's scouts . |
| 9 | Looking back on the scant evidence we have to assume that , along with the guilty , some innocent men and women went to their deaths , despite their confessions . |
| 10 | The ageing NI team is looking back on the key events of the last decade of the millennium . |
| 11 | It is difficult to believe in the political naivete of judges , but Sir John Donaldson , president of the NIRC , looking back on the short history of that court , has expressed views which are bewildering in their ingenuousness . |
| 12 | Self-satisfied spokesmen for the bourgeoisie were inclined to overstress the improvement , though none would deny what Sir Robert Giffen ( 1837–1900 ) , looking back on the British half-century before 1883 , tactfully called ‘ a residuum still unimproved ’ , nor that the improvement ‘ even when measured by a low ideal , is far too small ’ , nor that ‘ no one can contemplate the condition of the masses of the people without desiring something like a revolution for the better ’ . |
| 13 | Ho ho ho , ah God can you imagine that , Christ , aha here comes a car , there goes a car we are now in a country lane , looking out on the odd passing car bom , bom , bom , bom , bom I do n't know about Jessica and Rebecca actually |
| 14 | ‘ I hear Liam 's booked to go to America again , ’ said Davidson , looking out on the empty road . |
| 15 | Soon after One-Leg 's publication I was lying in my bath in what is shown to visitors as Lord Anglesey 's Bathroom , looking out on the incomparable view of the Menai Strait with the majesty of Snowdon beyond , when a bold idea occurred to me . |
| 16 | The kitchen was bigger than he had supposed ; it had a stone floor with a large square of matting , an open grate and a tiny window looking out on the rising ground of the headland . |
| 17 | Or again late at night as I stood shivering at my bedroom window looking out on the frosted garden , unable to sleep and unable to understand why . |
| 18 | They were in their living-room , furnished with superbly anonymous taste , and looking out on the double garage and the green lawn and the spring flowers , tastefully clustered . |
| 19 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |
| 20 | If Joe had not caught her , she would be there now , walking up the dale to look down on the sleeping cottage . |
| 21 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 22 | Ms Johnston uses the world war as a springboard into other conflicts ; that between England and Ireland ; between Ireland north and south , and even within the south itself , as the English officers look down on the Irish men , and the northern Irish sergeant barely conceals his contempt for the southern Catholics in his ranks . |
| 23 | Below , I look down on the differing surfaces , the differing states of ripeness from light green through to gold . |
| 24 | At the end of this road , walk a short way over the grassy hillside and look down on the turquoise waters of the bay ( Baia de Abra ) . |
| 25 | From the terrace beside the chapel you look down on the playing fields of Eton . |
| 26 | The rest of the 50 minutes should be used to look back on the previous lectures and notes on the same topic . |
| 27 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In the dying firelight he looked down on the sleeping face of Joe the Fish . |
| 30 | Slipping into the bed Sarah looked down on the white-blonde head and felt the familiar tightening in her guts . |