Example sentences of "look down into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor does it have much of a view , since it looks down into the stable . |
| 2 | Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice . |
| 3 | He looks down into the gardens hidden everywhere behind the patched and crumbling walls . |
| 4 | From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background . |
| 5 | From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background . |
| 6 | Have you ever looked down into the hair dryer ? |
| 7 | ‘ We 've got to stop hating , that 's all , ’ he said , looking down into the pit again . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Benjamin walked over , past the baptismal font and stood looking down into the sanctuary . |
| 10 | She shivered a little , leaning on the balustrade and looking down into the darkness while he gave some instructions to the maid . |
| 11 | But this raised the problem that one eye was always looking down into the sand and was effectively useless . |
| 12 | Patrick lay looking down into the dell . |
| 13 | A private party in some high-rise apartment block ; looking down into the city from the forty-second floor , it was like being inside a radio , one of those old valve radios , and Jed almost told Creed what he thought , he almost blurted something Creed would n't even have understood , You must 've had radios thrown away some time , did n't you ? but the rush blew over and he was still staring down into the forest of lit buildings and he still had n't spoken . |
| 14 | He let her leave the room before going across to Aggie , who was standing now looking down into the fire , and he patted the back of her shoulder , saying , ‘ You 're doin' the best thing , Aggie , the only thing . |
| 15 | She heard him picking his way carefully down the spiral staircase at the back of the tenement and stood by the window , looking down into the street . |
| 16 | Nuala crossed to the window and perched on the ledge looking down into the street below . |
| 17 | Cleared by the military Ohakea Control to climb into their airspace I coaxed a Grumman AA5 up to 11,000 feet , to look down into the crater lake of Mount Ruapehu , 9,175 feet high , to see steam and smoke coming from the crater within the torn and shattered peak of 6,517 foot Mount Tongariro ( whose last major eruption was only a dozen or so years back ) and to fly around the perfectly symmetrical cone of Mount Ngauruhoe . |
| 18 | She had learnt that wickedness exists , even where there is beauty , and now she could hardly bear to look down into the Vale . |
| 19 | On that first occasion my father took me through Craven Hill Gardens into Porchester Terrace , showed me the blank brick back of the facades and lifted me up on to the wall so that I could look down into the shaft . |
| 20 | I look down into the decomposition of leaves — |
| 21 | I looked down into the hole . |
| 22 | From there they crawled the last ten yards to the edge of a rise and looked down into the valley . |
| 23 | Not realising how clearly she could be seen against the light , she looked down into the courtyard . |
| 24 | Sarella looked down into the courtyard where Peter was busily taking off his skis . |
| 25 | He limped to the side of the roof and looked down into the yard . |
| 26 | Marian crossed to the stair and looked down into the chamber they had left . |
| 27 | The texture of the novel is in part created by the juxtaposition of dead metaphors and new ones created by slight adjustments to the normal patterns of the language : " … the sun looked down into the top of the dead tree and breathed warmly on the two people " ( p. 142 ) . |
| 28 | She came to it and stood and looked down into the dragon 's mouth . |
| 29 | I looked down into the punt and saw Rachel gazing up at me from beneath a wide straw hat . |
| 30 | He looked down into the water , conscious of her image there in front of him . |