Example sentences of "look down [prep] the [noun] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point . |
| 2 | A private party in some high-rise apartment block ; looking down into the city from the forty-second floor , it was like being inside a radio , one of those old valve radios , and Jed almost told Creed what he thought , he almost blurted something Creed would n't even have understood , You must 've had radios thrown away some time , did n't you ? but the rush blew over and he was still staring down into the forest of lit buildings and he still had n't spoken . |
| 3 | To him , even then , it had been history , and it somehow deserved ill-fortune ; in the heedless fashion of the American suburbs it seemed right to look down on the refugees from an old , superstition-riven world . |
| 4 | R. Louis Stevenson remarked ‘ it is worth a climb even in Summer to look down upon the lock from Arthur 's Seat , but it is tenfold more so on a day of Skating ’ . |
| 5 | They are the ones who can look down on the competition from the grandstand near the finish on Westminster Bridge . |