Example sentences of "looking down [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his relief he found he was above the trees and looking down into a murkiness that was beginning to map itself below him into defined and recognizable shapes . |
| 2 | Here stood the little house looking down through a frame of brown granite to the plain below . |
| 3 | We were at the rear of a crowd hundreds strong looking down upon a scene of devastation : shanties burnt and smouldering , shanties still burning , pouring forth black smoke . |
| 4 | In the north-west corner , four different birds are nesting in close company — the mute swan regally aloft on its large and bulky nest , looking down upon a coot nesting nearby in lesser estate , with two nests of great crested grebes almost awash amongst the reeds close by . |
| 5 | Looking down from a height of ten or twelve feet , she saw an old friend , the MGM lion . |