Example sentences of "to look down [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The violent hammering continued and Jenna crept out of bed to look down into the dark courtyard . |
| 2 | Ken meanwhile was beginning to look down on a great deal of what he had been asked to do professionally . |
| 3 | If Joe had not caught her , she would be there now , walking up the dale to look down on the sleeping cottage . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As a patient bandaged from head to foot , Crawford had to deliver only one line , but he forgot it , lifted the bed sheet to look down at a prompt card and uttered the immortal words , ‘ Have you seen this , nurse ? ’ |
| 6 | He had , as Dalgliesh knew , grudgingly respected Kate 's ability to look down at the butchered bodies in St Matthew 's vestry and not be sick , but he had n't liked her the better for it . |
| 7 | He was too alert not to catch the look and he was swift enough to look down in the same instant at his cup . |