Example sentences of "look down [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Margaret looks down on people like me . |
| 2 | Outside , Goldman was looking down at Schmidt as if he were standing on a cliff 's edge and peering at the drop . |
| 3 | Philippa was laughing in the perimeter of shadow that surrounded the light and Lee felt oddly stable looking down at Larry as if she were surveying an actor from the height and comfort of the gallery . |
| 4 | Jeopardy was leaning against the wall , his head thrown back , arms folded , looking down at Amber with inscrutable eyes . |
| 5 | He began to know how God had felt , looking down on Creation on the seventh day , resting from making the World . |
| 6 | Nell McCafferty , the Derry-born writer and civil rights activist , poignantly remembered family prayers from the 1950s : ‘ God send John a job ; God send Jackie and Rosaleen a house ; Holy Mother of God look down on Peggy in America and Leo in England ; Jesus and His Blessed Mother protect Mary that 's going out with a sailor . ' |
| 7 | The plan was so concise and symmetrical that its lines can still be traced today , especially if you look down on Aarau from a height . |
| 8 | It 's only when you are on the top floor and you look down on life on the bottom floor that everything down there looks smaller than normal . ’ |
| 9 | Its not so bad now either way , it was years ago always look down on people like that but not so much now |
| 10 | Either going or coming one should cross the Athos peninsula and look down into monasteries on the Holy Mountain that no female eye may otherwise see . |
| 11 | Yamamoto Moichiro , Colonel — later General — who became Gunseikan , head of the military government , looked down on Indonesians as ‘ natives ’ . |
| 12 | Once , we looked down on people with interests , with hobbies . |
| 13 | He looked down at Edouard from the horse 's back , and Edouard looked up at him . |
| 14 | Mrs Phelps looked down at Matilda from her great height and Matilda looked right back up at her . |
| 15 | He looked down in surprise at his hands , and consciously straightened them , flexing the fingers to ease the tension . |