Example sentences of "look down [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks down on hi life . |
| 2 | He stood looking down for some time . |
| 3 | I presume it 's seen from the wards that 're behind looking down into this courtyard . |
| 4 | The laibon takes us to the spot beneath the escarpment , looking down through two rock walls onto the plain , where Claudia built her little house . |
| 5 | I presume it 's seen from the wards that are up behind looking down onto this courtyard . |
| 6 | Of course somebody , Who Shall Be Nameless , would bring up the subject of Burns-And-You-Know-What , and how many of his children were born on The Wrong Side Of The Blanket , What Right Had We to look down on Brown Owl for her shotgun wedding when we were all supposed to look up to Rabbie Burns as Our Big Hero ? |
| 7 | And Dickens does mention both , I am told , ’ Auguste added anxiously in case Rose too should look down upon this departure from the true Dickensian menu . |
| 8 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book had warned of a false summit cairn , and if I had longed to see the view from Beinn Dorain , and look down on that road from which the young Gray had gazed upwards 25 years ago , I was going to be disappointed unless the mist lifted . |
| 9 | ‘ O Jesus , who made the blind see and the lame to walk , look down on this woman ! ’ |
| 10 | Gazzer looked down into that cat 's cradle of turning metal . |
| 11 | As she looked down into that face on which all tears had long since dried , Louisa had the deranging sensation that she was in the presence of a dying woman . |
| 12 | With much clicking of locks and a final scrabbling of a chain , the door was opened , and Lewis looked down with ill-disguised surprise . |
| 13 | Like our poor parliamentary candidate , I would have no chance of being elected , but it would be a beginning , though perhaps one I would have despised several years earlier when I looked down on parish-pump politics and intended to be the first woman prime minister . |
| 14 | Graham , too , looked down on theoretical work ; he did not like examinations . |
| 15 | I looked down in some wonderment at the shiny blacktop , therefore , nevertheless noting that unevennesses were already manifesting themselves . |