Example sentences of "and look [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
| 2 | They were in their living-room , furnished with superbly anonymous taste , and looking out on the double garage and the green lawn and the spring flowers , tastefully clustered . |
| 3 | For hours he would sit by the window , and look out on the empty , Sunday street , as the church bells tolled dismally from different points in the town . |
| 4 | Regrettably , even today , there are a number of health service insiders who feel that they are an exception to these general rules and look down on the ways of industry with the patronizing assurance of those who know that ‘ we are different ’ . |
| 5 | At the end of this road , walk a short way over the grassy hillside and look down on the turquoise waters of the bay ( Baia de Abra ) . |
| 6 | Many of the beaches were almost deserted in my early childhood , and to walk on a newly washed shore as the tide receded , and look back on the footsteps in the shining sand was a delight . |
| 7 | It had once been the master bedroom and looked out on the woods to the east . |
| 8 | She made her escape from the table , boiled the kettle and looked in on the children . |
| 9 | In return , the Royal Navy gloried in the title of the Senior Service and looked down on the Army and the Royal Air Force . |
| 10 | Considering themselves to be superior , they cared little for the ordinary person and looked down on the sinners . |
| 11 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 12 | As the poets say — ’ he could not bring to mind a single line and so he stopped , and looked down on the lake as if in mourning , intuiting , correctly , that this would have the same effect as a couplet . |
| 13 | ( And in the alleyway behind The Gilded Cage , the three teenagers crouched high amidst the rubbish and looked down on the body of the middle-aged woman that they 'd just uncovered . |
| 14 | I walked the glen many times , and looked back on the few trees , lying far in the hollow , that grow near the place where the massacre is said to have begun ; while on either side were deep rock-lined , tree and fern-fringed chasms , leading into seclusions and bleak mountain summits , one could spend long hours exploring . |