Example sentences of "look down [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | High , curved , hand-carved doors led from the reception area to the conference room and residents ' sitting-room , where afternoon tea would be served looking down across the gardens to the accompaniment of a grand piano . |
| 2 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 3 | The two boys stood looking down at the heaps of feathers . |
| 4 | He stood by the large window , looking down on the lights of Leeds . |
| 5 | A stroll in the moonlight by the old St Joseph 's seminary and the lake , and then looking down on the lights of Wigan . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | From where he stood , high up , he could look down on the roofs of the houses . |
| 8 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 9 | A result , I ca n't hear myself speaking if I are the policy and resources committee there were other they were erm er in the debate there were some very good cases brought in to it and some erm good recommendations and this is why I 'm surprised I 'm er forget now why , there were some who were er against by majority because I believe that when we look down on the decisions of the P N O , we have made some very good recommendations if I say so it says on twenty , paragraph twenty in and you people on this authority , members of this authority have been saying a a clear definition of the role of the local government now and for the next twenty years , should underpin any consideration of local authority management structures and the role of members and therefore the joint working party 's consideration begin from an inadequate base . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Phyllis stood by the fence and looked down to the lines at the bottom . |
| 12 | She looked down at the notes on the small side table , and then pulled off her wore framed pince-nez . |
| 13 | They sat at a table and looked down at the lights of the shipping in the Tagus . |
| 14 | Except — ’ He looked down at the trenches of scattered earth . |
| 15 | Masklin relaxed a bit , and looked down at the figures in the sand . |
| 16 | There were tears in her eyes as she looked down across the footlights to the man in the front row , on his feet now , applauding . |
| 17 | The festivities started with a parade through the town led by the Houlton Silver Band and as I looked down from the windows of our bed-sitter I could see them all gathering in the street below . |