Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun] look down " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He stopped on the top step to look down at her , and there was no mistaking the mocking glitter in his eyes now . |
| 3 | Columbus sees none of it , not the land 's fertility nor the sudden barrenness of the vanquished castles looking down from their pinnacles . |
| 4 | Five minutes later they stood on the grassy bank looking down at the brown water . |
| 5 | But as my mouth framed the words the little man looked down at me appealingly as though he knew what I was going to say . |
| 6 | Here stood the little house looking down through a frame of brown granite to the plain below . |
| 7 | The leisure and recreational movements generated from the grassroots or from the concerned philanthropist looking down from on high were to give way to a cultural and economic popularism which was to be progressively constructed by the new generation of market-orientated professionals . |
| 8 | In the convent passage the Sacred Heart looked down in reproach . |
| 9 | The same sky looked down , blank and forgettable and grey , itself unchanging . |
| 10 | Beyond its roofline , the backs of the big houses looked down . |
| 11 | ‘ Most of the other mothers looked down on her because she was single . |
| 12 | It did not look very neat , he had to admit , but unless the prospective buyer looked down into the cabinet the bodgery would not be discovered . |
| 13 | He spent the whole meal looking down Laura 's dress while in his pants his prong throbbed and his wallet shrank . |
| 14 | I drive many buses as well as cars and I find I 'm very aggressive in cars , but when I 'm sitting high up in the seat of a mini bus looking down on every one your not so aggressive , you feel well I 've got the right of way , nobody 's going to argue with me . |
| 15 | On the other hand , a shot taken from a high angle to look down on the subject diminishes it and suggests a feeling of superiority . |
| 16 | He dwells in a high tower looking down on the metropolis and can often be seen flying high above it on his War Griffon Stormwing . |
| 17 | Its beauty lies not in its architecture , but in the magnificence of its views as it sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill looking down the unencumbered views across fields , moors and woodland to the river valleys of the Wye and Elan . |
| 18 | When she got to the large graph that shows the state of the church-roof appeal , she stopped and looked down at the waiting crowds as if she was a victorious politician looking down on her compliant voters . |
| 19 | The moonlight shone into my bedroom , as it did then , and I saw a vision on the ceiling , a white figure looking down on me . |
| 20 | She walked one last time down the rickety boardwalk in front of the cabins , and stood for a long time looking down at the sleeping lodge , the moody lake beyond it . |
| 21 | Just off the main road on the right is a good viewpoint to look down on both the north and south sides of the island . |
| 22 | A six inch deep channel of water still flowed over their wader clad feet as they stood in a rough circle looking down at something in the mud . |
| 23 | At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below . |