Example sentences of "look [adv prt] on this " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had told Great-gran and now she stood looking down on this eighty-two year old woman who was dressed as a woman of forty might have been , in a pale blue cotton dress , square-necked , which showed surprisingly firm flesh for one her age , short-sleeved , which in this case exposed her real age by the sagging flesh of the underarm . |
| 2 | Erm , I 'm I 'm never sure about Bishops and Archbishops , erm I remember Archbishop Runcie once commenting about er , an activity that took place at the installation of a Bishop and it 's , I gather , I mean I 've , I have n't actually been to one , but if you 're Bishop or an Archbishop when they act to the triumph and act of installation took place there were you 'll find that the person was surrounded by Bishops and they were all sort of looking in on this er , this body that was gon na be installed and somebody once asked what are they doing ? |
| 3 | Now Gloucester rugby fans wo n't be looking back on this season for any misty eyed memories … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ O Jesus , who made the blind see and the lame to walk , look down on this woman ! ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You will eventually look back on this seemingly grim period in your life with affection and gratitude . |
| 8 | Helping an elderly parent through her sorrow can be a long , hard haul , but very rewarding in the end — not only in terms of her recovery , but also because , if you find yourself in the same position in later years , you will look back on this experience you shared with her and find that it has left you with a far deeper understanding of grief , and a greater confidence in the healing power of time to see you through your own period of adjustment to loss . |
| 9 | He has been on the losing side in Cup semi-finals on five occasions , and if he finally makes it to Wembley this year he may look back on this bitter struggle as the crucial victory along the way . |
| 10 | Future historians may one day look back on this short period as a golden guilt-free age for parents ! |
| 11 | I think I will look back on this day and think , I really had quite a distressing haircut did n't I , but also that this was the first day I was introduced to the humour of Vic and Bob . |
| 12 | Now I think if you look back on this report famous report that did n't through . |