Example sentences of "[noun sg] looking down [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 2 | The night before they move Howard sits on the terrace looking down upon the city for the last time . |
| 3 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 4 | But sitting up in the bedroom looking down towards the river , she was asking herself more often of late whether meat and clothing were all there was to life . |
| 5 | Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below . |
| 6 | At the top I found myself in a wide gallery looking down onto the floor below . |
| 7 | The two men made their way silently along the roof , until they were seated on either side of the skylight looking down into the deserted corridor below . |
| 8 | One hour later , Rose stood at the window of his room looking down at the harbour scene . |
| 9 | There was absolutely no point in having two hundred people perched up on the road looking down on the top of a marquee . |
| 10 | Nuala crossed to the window and perched on the ledge looking down into the street below . |
| 11 | Just before dusk one of the villagers , walking through the church grounds , saw the abbe in the garden looking down at the carp pond . |
| 12 | He dwells in a high tower looking down on the metropolis and can often be seen flying high above it on his War Griffon Stormwing . |
| 13 | The others , grouped around him , stood in silence looking down at the stricken man . |
| 14 | Five minutes later they stood on the grassy bank looking down at the brown water . |
| 15 | I stand up there in the pulpit every Sunday mornin' looking down at the upturned faces searchin' for yours , but in vain . |
| 16 | There was a man standing over the patient looking down at the face completely encased in bandages . |
| 17 | They hung there in the sky like faces of fire looking down on the island , like something waiting . |
| 18 | She walked one last time down the rickety boardwalk in front of the cabins , and stood for a long time looking down at the sleeping lodge , the moody lake beyond it . |