Example sentences of "to look [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both need the opportunity to explore beach and castle , to look in on a busy workshop , to wander round a ruin , to wonder at a megalithic monument , to gaze at strange animals in a wildlife park . |
| 2 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |
| 3 | ‘ It is so good of you to look in on an old invalid when you must be so very busy at the office — what with the Dean 's compost heap yielding such unwholesome remains . ’ |
| 4 | Ken meanwhile was beginning to look down on a great deal of what he had been asked to do professionally . |
| 5 | If Joe had not caught her , she would be there now , walking up the dale to look down on the sleeping cottage . |
| 6 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 7 | On present form , future generations are likely to look back on the 1992 election — with its emphasis on marginal tax rates — as at best rather quaint , or at worst a tragic irrelevance . |
| 8 | The rest of the 50 minutes should be used to look back on the previous lectures and notes on the same topic . |