Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her window had been wide all night and as she got out of bed she looked down on the dusty heads of trees where sparrows were fussing . |
| 2 | In the dying firelight he looked down on the sleeping face of Joe the Fish . |
| 3 | Slipping into the bed Sarah looked down on the white-blonde head and felt the familiar tightening in her guts . |
| 4 | No wonder Uncle Mick grinned as he looked down on the nearly-elegant sitting-room . |
| 5 | He looked down on the bent head , but there was no response from Millie . |
| 6 | He looked down on the pretty garden and saw the two of them snoring there , their front claws tucked neatly under their chins which rested on silk cushions and their tails dipped tidily into the pond whose waters did not stir enough to move their dreams to wildness . |
| 7 | When the Birmingham architect Joseph Crouch looked back on the nineteenth century , he reflected that ‘ the spirit of Evangelical religion in England has changed in a singular manner during the past fifty or sixty years . |
| 8 | She looked back on the whole expanse of land |
| 9 | I walked the glen many times , and looked back on the few trees , lying far in the hollow , that grow near the place where the massacre is said to have begun ; while on either side were deep rock-lined , tree and fern-fringed chasms , leading into seclusions and bleak mountain summits , one could spend long hours exploring . |
| 10 | Since the Greeks looked back on the Mycenaean past as a ‘ Golden Age ’ of gods and heroes , they tended to regard history as a decline from this ideal state and not as an ultimate order of reality . |
| 11 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 12 | He looked back on the last ten days , reflecting on the events which had brought him to where he now was . |
| 13 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 14 | Drawing the curtain across the windows she looked out on the gloomy , almost deserted street . |
| 15 | A window over the deep pot sink looked out on the upper par of the yard , its panes of dusty glass still criss-crossed with scraps of air-raid tape several years after the end of the war . |
| 16 | Above were three correspondingly small bedrooms , two of which looked out on the narrow and often gloomy street . |
| 17 | The room was depressing : the single window looked out on the narrow street ; there were net curtains as well as heavy , red velvet drapes drawn half-way across . |
| 18 | Thereafter I looked out of all the windows of the snug hostelry , and not finding a satisfactory view , for it now rained in earnest , and it was vain to hope to be able to sketch out of doors , I noticed a new house a short distance from the inn ( it was being prepared for a doctor ) ; was entrusted with the keys , and from one of the front windows looked out on the rainy scene depicted in the sketch of ‘ Garrynahine , Isle of Lewis . ’ |