Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lover of power is attracted to the viewpoint of the strongest , the one who can , even if he graciously refrains , force others to act against their wills ; he may himself achieve power , or fantasize it , or in consciousness of impotence prefer to look down on himself through the eyes of real or imaginary conquerors . |
| 2 | Easily distinguishable in his bird-lime-encrusted shirt and shorts , he often had a look in his eye that spoke of clouds and freedom , rather than the shin-splitting hordes bearing down on him in the shape of the Corton Heath Corinthians . |
| 3 | Oh , hello … ’ the Doctor replied , not able to tell who was bearing down on him in the fog . |
| 4 | Small boys spat down on him from the safety of high windows and their mothers clenched their buttocks and turned away their glowing cheeks . |
| 5 | The great , distinguished people of the world do not know that these beggars can in the pride of their souls , look down on them as the unfortunate ones , who are left on the shore for their worldly uses , but whose life ever misses the touch of the lover 's arms . ’ |
| 6 | Unable to get to our treasure , they were decimated by the rain of bolts our forebears showered down on them from the tower of this church . |
| 7 | A square of amber light shone down on them from the open hatch . |
| 8 | The sun shone down on her through the glass , and added to the headache that was gathering behind her eyes . |
| 9 | Above , Ruth 's white face looked down on her from the window . |
| 10 | She felt reassured from the article that other people suffered the same symptoms as she did , and could already identify her own propensity to jump to the conclusion that people looked down on her in the absence of any hard evidence . |
| 11 | The sun seared down on us through the thin air , and when we slowed and turned our own cloud of dust enveloped us . |
| 12 | Singly and in groups , these aristocratic figures look down on us from the walls of the Crousel-Robelin-Bama gallery , proud survivors of a vanishing world . |
| 13 | International art , culture and politics , as immortalised by Pino Settanni , look down on us from the walls of the Hadrian Thomas gallery until 28 June . |
| 14 | look down on you in the middle class ! |
| 15 | I know that whether it was trying to dig him up for some doubles at Kyalami or just dropping in on him aboard the Queen Mary , I always called up first to make sure he was not otherwise engaged , and I can recall many times when James appeared at the track looking benign but far from fresh . |
| 16 | A couple of anachronisms fighting it out here while real life moved in on them from the east almost unnoticed . |
| 17 | It is occasionally possible , just for brief moments , to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many mansions inside the head and express something — perhaps not much , just something — of the crush of the information that presses in on us from the way a crow flies over and the way a man walks and the look of a street and from what we did one day a dozen years ago . |
| 18 | As Jeremy Seabrook so vividly illustrates in his many books , working-class areas have instead become the victims of a process of mindless violence , the community turning in on itself in the search for thrills , kicks , money . |
| 19 | As with Frankie , so much of the pleasure is bound up with the sense of something breaking out all over the surfaces of everyday life , and you being in on it from the start . |
| 20 | I explained , as gently as possible , that my mother was very old-fashioned and always checked up on me in the morning . |
| 21 | ‘ Then we come up on me in the studio . |
| 22 | His admirable Swiss detectives had checked up on her with the central police register of foreigners , and then elicited the information from the police in Jersey . |
| 23 | ‘ When I check up on him in the morning he asks for you . |
| 24 | Stop me if you 've heard this , but one of those gunsels opened up on somebody at the rear entrance of the Regal Arms Hotel . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I gave up on you in the end and bought some myself . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I was so afraid you would be hurt , then I found myself wondering if I could trust David or whether he would walk out on me at the first sign of trouble . ’ |
| 27 | Unidentified creatures paced about near their camp , and green eyes looked out on them from the bushes . |
| 28 | Unidentified creatures paced about near their camp , and green eyes looked out on them from the bushes . |
| 29 | ’ Monika claims 38-year-old Father Christopher O'Neill ran out on her before the birth of their daughter Jennifer . |
| 30 | Is it perhaps an identity taken from the white bearskin rug on his study floor ( which he first mentions in a letter to Louise Colet of August 1846 , telling her that he likes to stretch out on it during the day . |