Example sentences of "[vb past] look down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 2 | Alexei seemed to look down at the folder in his hand . |
| 3 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 4 | These attitudes included looking down on the pursuit of trade and commerce as somewhat inferior socially . |
| 5 | Patrick lay looking down into the dell . |
| 6 | If a bird had looked down on the quarry in the next few seconds it would have been amazed . |
| 7 | Fine views can be had looking down on the north side of the island to Porto da Cruz and the Penha d'Aguia ( the enormous flat-topped rock ) which stands between Faial and Porto da Cruz . |
| 8 | So majestic were Forest that one had to look down to the programme to make sure it was n't Robertson and Woodcock and McGovern and Gemmill combining in sweet harmony to carve open Leeds . |
| 9 | The two boys stood looking down at the heaps of feathers . |
| 10 | They both stood looking down at the poor sufferer , neither speaking . |
| 11 | She stood looking down at the tiny fireplace . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! ’ |
| 14 | He strode over to the door and stood looking down at the handle , shaking his head sadly . |
| 15 | He did not touch , but stood looking down at the page . |
| 16 | Turning up the collar of his Burberry against the chill morning air , he climbed up the slope to the rim of the hollow and stood looking down at the car . |
| 17 | Shutting the door softly behind her , Theda tiptoed to the bed and stood looking down at the still figure in some alarm . |
| 18 | Joanna rushed off and Sophie stood looking down at the telephone . |
| 19 | Benjamin walked over , past the baptismal font and stood looking down into the sanctuary . |
| 20 | Suddenly he rose from his chair , gave a quick look round the office , then went across to the window , where he stood looking down into the courtyard . |
| 21 | I squelched across tiny burns running in black channels of peat , and stood looking down from the hillside on to the grey roofs of Scaup Farm . |
| 22 | David sat looking down at the empty wine glass that he was turning round and round between his hands . |