Example sentences of "looks [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ?
2 Looks down on the needy and the greedy now . ’
3 His father had died serving the Empire as one of the Black Riders and as the boy looks down on the great imperial road from the quiet house of his foster-parents he listens to tales of the powerful Count Jasper , Governor of the Citadel and commander of those orthodox forces .
4 but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers
5 From a height of 90 metres one looks down on an emerging pattern of roads , lakes and gardens , which will shortly be lined with pavilions from over a hundred countries .
6 Grant looks down into the dark waters .
7 One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ?
8 She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture .
9 John looks up at the grey eyes so far away .
10 Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west .
11 Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world .
12 At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world .
13 And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two .
14 This old way , ‘ With an alien people clutching their gods ’ , looks back to the savage world which Eliot had been exploring , the world trapped in the ritual of ‘ birth , and copulation , and death ’ .
15 Today , the Mirror looks back to the first tragic deaths in one of the world 's longest and more bitter conflicts .
16 They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living .
17 But more affecting still is the first half of the record , in which he looks back with a wry , but far from dry , eye on his own childhood .
18 Judith Grossman 's novel , Her Own Terms , published in 1988 , looks back at a working-class scholarship-girl in the 1950s , who goes to Oxford from a South London Grammar school ; Grossman shows in passing how formidably well-read and linguistically equipped her heroine was .
19 As the Docklands beer festival fades from view , Martyn Cornell looks back at the sad demise of brewing in the Cockney heartland
20 The master raconteur looks back at the many amusing moments of his 47-year career at the BBC .
21 He looks back on a stimulating and happy relationship with his fellow Board members .
22 Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay .
23 Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 .
24 Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements .
25 The meticulously clean rooms are of medium size , nicely furnished and decorated with telephone and T.V. The breakfast room is of a good size and looks out onto a small garden .
26 It is a ground-floor flat , one wall is a window , which keeps the place cold and which looks out onto a bare field , with two scaffolding poles and a tarmac patch .
27 The dining room looks out onto a mature , secluded garden where the River Rother passes through on its way to Grasemere Lake .
28 It looks out over a peaceful rural landscape .
29 Surrounded by coconut groves , it looks out over a large , open-air swimming pool onto an excellent sandy beach and the sea beyond .
30 Babur looks out over the dark quiet trees to the white lights and feels at home .
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