Example sentences of "looked down [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stunned , he looked down through smoke-bleared eyes at the shotgun in his hands . |
| 2 | A picture of Nicolae Ceauşescu looked down over these proceedings , which were graced by the presence of the Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Hodgkin , Mrs Thatcher 's former chemistry tutor at Oxford ( though she had no sympathy for ‘ that woman ’ ) who had contributed an introduction to an English translation of one of Elena 's works . |
| 3 | Gazzer looked down into that cat 's cradle of turning metal . |
| 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 | With much clicking of locks and a final scrabbling of a chain , the door was opened , and Lewis looked down with ill-disguised surprise . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Graham , too , looked down on theoretical work ; he did not like examinations . |
| 10 | I looked down in some wonderment at the shiny blacktop , therefore , nevertheless noting that unevennesses were already manifesting themselves . |