Example sentences of "look down [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
| 2 | Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice . |
| 3 | Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point . |
| 4 | If a bird had looked down on the quarry in the next few seconds it would have been amazed . |
| 5 | Looking down towards the mouth of the street , they saw shadows gathering . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've all got to share , ’ she said , as they passed through the swing doors and found themselves looking down at the courtyard of the Museum . |
| 8 | I was still looking down at the girl in the grass . |
| 9 | Looking down at the top of Joe 's balding pate , Michael listened to the haunting childish voice and could have cried . |
| 10 | For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head . |
| 11 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 12 | Hal Shepherd stood at the turn of the road , his hands resting lightly on the low stone wall , looking down at the row of cottages and the bay beyond . |
| 13 | Looking down at the reflection of the stars in the still , calm sea below , she said softly , ‘ I 'm glad we came up here . |
| 14 | ‘ Do after your kind , ’ said Radulfus , looking down at the pair with a face almost as blanched as the prior 's , ‘ and so must I. Jerome , ’ he said , with absolute and steely authority , ‘ look up and face me . ’ |
| 15 | Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below . |
| 16 | She 'll go up to you and she goes she looks at you like that and her eyes are all wide , sh sh she 's looking down at the wall like that to make sure it 's all clear , you know what I mean ? |
| 17 | Again she was silent for a moment or two , looking down at the carpet of tawny beech leaves , debris of the previous autumn , now shimmering in the dappled shafts of light which struggled through the tree canopy . |
| 18 | But now he trod carefully across the carpet to the bed and stood silently looking down at the body of Berowne . |
| 19 | And she stood looking down at the key in her hand , while she said to herself , ‘ Well , this seems to decide it , does n't it ? ’ and turning , she yelled , ‘ Ben ! ’ |
| 20 | Looking down at the curve of her cheekbone , still wet with tears , he suddenly wanted her , quite overwhelmingly . |
| 21 | I stood looking down at the pavement below the payphone while Dennis padded across the wall-to-wall carpeting and called distantly to his wife . |
| 22 | He was looking down at the pavement outside the house . |
| 23 | The two boys stood looking down at the heaps of feathers . |
| 24 | Looking down at the face of her lover , she smiled , daring to trace the line of his profile with a tender finger . |
| 25 | There was absolutely no point in having two hundred people perched up on the road looking down on the top of a marquee . |
| 26 | These attitudes included looking down on the pursuit of trade and commerce as somewhat inferior socially . |
| 27 | He stood by the large window , looking down on the lights of Leeds . |
| 28 | A stroll in the moonlight by the old St Joseph 's seminary and the lake , and then looking down on the lights of Wigan . |
| 29 | To compare models such as those shown in Fig. 5a with the observations shown in Fig. 4 , it is necessary to make a transformation from what one would observe looking down on the plane to the ( l , v ) plot observed from our position in the plane . |
| 30 | 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 . |