Example sentences of "look [adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looks down on the needy and the greedy now . ’ |
| 2 | His father had died serving the Empire as one of the Black Riders and as the boy looks down on the great imperial road from the quiet house of his foster-parents he listens to tales of the powerful Count Jasper , Governor of the Citadel and commander of those orthodox forces . |
| 3 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 4 | From a height of 90 metres one looks down on an emerging pattern of roads , lakes and gardens , which will shortly be lined with pavilions from over a hundred countries . |
| 5 | He looks back on a stimulating and happy relationship with his fellow Board members . |
| 6 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 7 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
| 8 | None came and still under the drug 's influence at dawn , he found himself looking out from the top of a forty-foot tree — he had no memory of climbing it — and looking down on a vast meadow , flecked with patterns of multi-coloured light and rocks which turned into horses , all of which filled him with ‘ tremendous emotions ’ . |
| 9 | Looking down on the great White Tower and surrounding ramparts , Folly had to agree . |
| 10 | ( 65 ) " I shall now select my Empress ! " he said , looking down on the cowering people . |
| 11 | The three grown people stand looking down on the sleeping infant whose soft breathing seems to have spread the tawny bloom over its ivory skin . |
| 12 | LOOKING DOWN ON THE RICH |
| 13 | So did Sean and Michael and the family and most of the congregation , except old Emmet , who was still asleep and Jock , who sat in the choir balcony with his arms folded , looking down on the Latin mumbo-jumbo with Presbyterian disapproval . |
| 14 | And Jackdaws Castle which sits high on the Cotswolds is now looking down on the racing world … |
| 15 | When the old man came into the yard she pointed towards the coalhouse ; the next minute , looking down on the bloodied form , he said , ‘ God in heaven ! ’ |
| 16 | Playing the fringes of the metropolis , Lily had used to hope that one day , looking up on the prompt side , she would see one of George Edwardes 's scouts . |
| 17 | Looking back on a memorable 1991 , 26-year-old Roebuck thinks he was a very fortunate man . |
| 18 | Peter O'Toole 's happiest hour as the Soho scribe looking back on a mis-spent life . |
| 19 | LOOKING back on Northern Ireland as it was when the troubles started is uncannily like looking back on a silent movie . |
| 20 | Looking back on the scant evidence we have to assume that , along with the guilty , some innocent men and women went to their deaths , despite their confessions . |
| 21 | The ageing NI team is looking back on the key events of the last decade of the millennium . |
| 22 | It is difficult to believe in the political naivete of judges , but Sir John Donaldson , president of the NIRC , looking back on the short history of that court , has expressed views which are bewildering in their ingenuousness . |
| 23 | The start of a New Year is a time for looking back on the past 12 months and also a time when self-styled pundits such as myself are unwisely tempted to look into their crystal balls and come up with the predictions that by the end of the year they may well regret |
| 24 | Looking back on the bitter , dangerous adventure he undertook in her service , years later , Hi Ridden still sees her in a romantic light : |
| 25 | Self-satisfied spokesmen for the bourgeoisie were inclined to overstress the improvement , though none would deny what Sir Robert Giffen ( 1837–1900 ) , looking back on the British half-century before 1883 , tactfully called ‘ a residuum still unimproved ’ , nor that the improvement ‘ even when measured by a low ideal , is far too small ’ , nor that ‘ no one can contemplate the condition of the masses of the people without desiring something like a revolution for the better ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ Others have told me that it shows an old woman sitting looking out on a stormy sea from a tranquil cottage garden . |
| 27 | Ho ho ho , ah God can you imagine that , Christ , aha here comes a car , there goes a car we are now in a country lane , looking out on the odd passing car bom , bom , bom , bom , bom I do n't know about Jessica and Rebecca actually |
| 28 | ‘ I hear Liam 's booked to go to America again , ’ said Davidson , looking out on the empty road . |
| 29 | Soon after One-Leg 's publication I was lying in my bath in what is shown to visitors as Lord Anglesey 's Bathroom , looking out on the incomparable view of the Menai Strait with the majesty of Snowdon beyond , when a bold idea occurred to me . |
| 30 | The kitchen was bigger than he had supposed ; it had a stone floor with a large square of matting , an open grate and a tiny window looking out on the rising ground of the headland . |