Example sentences of "[pers pn] looked down [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I looked down on those falls — ‘ the smoke that thunders ’ as the Africans used to call them , with the white plumes of spray towering above the bushes and trees ; and I thought of David Livingstone trudging , the first modern white man to find them . |
| 3 | I looked down in some wonderment at the shiny blacktop , therefore , nevertheless noting that unevennesses were already manifesting themselves . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As she looked down at this small collection of his personal belongings , she realized that she had never thought of him as having any reality beyond the few hours they had spent together at the cottage . |
| 6 | He looked down at that . |
| 7 | Stunned , he looked down through smoke-bleared eyes at the shotgun in his hands . |