Example sentences of "look down on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks down on hi life . |
| 2 | My mother had social pretensions and candidly looked down on most of our neighbours — feckless social casualties like Mary Haslam who picked coal on the slag heaps and was endlessly pregnant by a series of different partners ; like the Races , one of whose children my father caught drinking paraffin . |
| 3 | Perdita , however , was excitedly looking down on vast faded pink rivers curling through spinach-green forest , and the blue shadow of their plane lying across Buenos Aires . |
| 4 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |
| 5 | The main disadvantage of this arrangement is that the cameras are looking down on those speaking from the front-benches , and , unless they take care to keep their heads up , the tops of their heads rather than their faces are exposed on the screen . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ My Enrico , he is covered with blood looking down on pretty Lisa , lying on her bed of blood . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Michael himself was now in the choir balcony beside Jock Lennox letting Maria look down on all the heads below them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I look down on clear rivers . |
| 17 | ‘ O Jesus , who made the blind see and the lame to walk , look down on this woman ! ’ |
| 18 | No matter how you rise in the world never look down on another . |
| 19 | As they flew over the house and looked down on colourful gardens she could see a pool of some considerable size , glittering greenly in the sun , tubs of geraniums around it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Graham , too , looked down on theoretical work ; he did not like examinations . |