Example sentences of "look [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now , in the dream influence of the moon , Fenna told Maggie to look down on all the kingdoms of the world , and across China she saw the snaking of the Great Wall . |
| 32 | 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 ? |
| 33 | Now Michael Portillo is one of the Tory high flyers , for anyone that do n't know who he is , he 's a Tory high flyer who finds it very difficult to look down , very difficult to look down on those but he should look down before he makes a such statements . |
| 34 | John will look in on these nurses after hours in their studios and boarding-houses , in their chambers and parlours , but it 's only the very special nurses who in any way establish themselves at his attractive address . |
| 35 | Michael himself was now in the choir balcony beside Jock Lennox letting Maria look down on all the heads below them . |
| 36 | On a clear day there are magnificent views from all along this road as well as from the summit , and you can look down on all sides of the island , even to Porto Santo . |
| 37 | There have been many memorable moments : watching a gyr falcon trying to out-manoeuvre puffins in flight off the headland of Tjörnes ; finding purple sandpipers , dunlin , redshank and Arctic terns all breeding together near Núpscatla ; the spectacular east coast road which in places cuts across forty-five degree mountain slopes where you can look down on vast flocks of moulting eider drakes on the sea below . |
| 38 | You can look down on this very attractively from Biarritz 's nicest small square , the Place de l'Atalaya , reachable from below up paths dense with the wispy tamarisks of which the town is so fond . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | I look down on clear rivers . |
| 41 | ‘ O Jesus , who made the blind see and the lame to walk , look down on this woman ! ’ |
| 42 | No matter how you rise in the world never look down on another . |
| 43 | Through it you can look out on some trees . |
| 44 | This was be this was er er there was a ceremonial parade when we stood down but this was er erm something that like that the town in recognition of the Home Guard Cos when the Home Guard was stood down it was a national er a national standing down so everybody all over the country er everybody in the country there 'd be a er a parade of some sort but this was for the Walsall detachment of the South Staffs Home Guard that was invited to , to the town hall for er a reception , it was quite it stood in re er I still can remember about it quite quite something to look back on that was really . |
| 45 | In his autobiography , Citrine himself was to look back on this second career , taken up at the age of sixty , as the happiest time of his life , when his creativity and other faculties were exercised to the full . |
| 46 | Betty Friedan , who was to give the whole phenomenon of fulfilment-through-motherhood a name — The Feminine Mystique — also made a revealing admission when she came to look back on those unliberated years in a later book ( It Changed My Life ) : |
| 47 | ‘ It is miserable for us to look back on these things . |
| 48 | All in all , we will be able to look back on 1990 as a year of solid achievement and forward to 1991 with confidence . |
| 49 | ‘ We wanted everyone to look out on green fields and I fought , so hard , to stop any high rise buildings . |
| 50 | Take breakfast at the Hotel Concordia and you look out on unrivalled views of Venice . |
| 51 | And in 1944 when Cole wrote his book as part of the Movement 's centenary tribute to the Rochdale Pioneers , when Consumers ' Co-operation could still look back on many decades of unbroken success , it would have been as natural for him to suppose that the Pioneers had in this respect been mistaken and that their mistake stood in need of explanation . |
| 52 | ‘ I can look back on many significant achievements by the staff . |
| 53 | Of his time at Darlington , he says : ‘ I can look back on many significant achievement by the staff . |
| 54 | The reason for that is that they 're in a very good position in the market now , they , they can negotiate very good deals on houses they 're buying , there 's a very good choice of properties available , people by the mid nineteen nineties will look back on nineteen ninety as probably the time to have bought , when house prices were at their cheapest . |
| 55 | Irwin had a marvellous year last time and will be keen to win the Regal as will Derek Young , another rider who could look back on 1992 with a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 56 | Sun-tanned , fit and contented , we could look back on fourteen days of carefree cruising ; four hundred miles through some of the finest scenery in the British Isles with the freedom of the hills for good measure . |
| 57 | apart from the current guys , we can look back on other great Leeds teams : |
| 58 | Now , when life is so precious , I can look back on that period with shocked amazement . |
| 59 | They 'll look back on that opening forty minutes as a period of massively missed opportunity . |
| 60 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |