Example sentences of "[pron] look down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below , I look down on the differing surfaces , the differing states of ripeness from light green through to gold . |
| 2 | I look down into the decomposition of leaves — |
| 3 | I look down at the map of the estate . |
| 4 | I looked down towards the end of the straight . |
| 5 | Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to . |
| 6 | I looked down into the hole . |
| 7 | Outside on the terrace , at the point from where Francis used to dive , and made the dive that killed him , I looked down into the moon-flecked pool . |
| 8 | I looked down into the punt and saw Rachel gazing up at me from beneath a wide straw hat . |
| 9 | I looked down at the money again . |
| 10 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 11 | I looked down at the sea breaking on the rocks . |
| 12 | I looked down at the perfect rosebud lips , the determined chin and the tiny clenched fists of my cub . |
| 13 | I looked down at the chart and saw that the island was not so very far off our course , and I knew that the Beechcraft was brim-full with fuel . |
| 14 | I looked down at the viscid mess and up to meet his dry smile . |
| 15 | I looked down at the pretty patterns that streets do n't know they make . |
| 16 | I looked down at the glistening pavements . |
| 17 | I looked down at the four orange cards on the counter , lining them up evenly . |
| 18 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 22 | We drove up one of the steep hills which look down on the city and are encircled by walls and bastions ( built by the great sixteenth-century architect Michele Sanmichele ) to the house where I was going to live . |
| 23 | The privy was crude , a small recess in the wall with a latrine seat , just under a tiny , open , oval-shaped window which looked down over the green . |
| 24 | Miranda lay half asleep on a sofa in front of her sitting-room window , which looked down on the Place de la République ; from there , the road led to the distant perfume factory which Miranda wanted to buy . |
| 25 | The sun flooded the ward , painting a red halo round Marek 's head and throwing Dexter 's face , which looked down at the floor disconsolately , into purple shadow . |
| 26 | Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point . |
| 27 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
| 28 | From the terrace beside the chapel you look down on the playing fields of Eton . |
| 29 | CRUISING slowly in the rush hour traffic , you look down at the radio to switch stations and — bang — the car in front stops suddenly and you 've run into it . |
| 30 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |