Example sentences of "looks down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
2 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
3 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
4 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
5 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
6 | From a gusty somewhere , God looks down on a world |
7 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
8 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
9 | Nor does it have much of a view , since it looks down into the stable . |
10 | Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice . |
11 | He looks down into the gardens hidden everywhere behind the patched and crumbling walls . |
12 | From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background . |
13 | From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background . |
14 | Now , suddenly , a jay looks down from a hiding place in a lichened oak and slips away without breaking the silence : stealthy , cunning , typical of the inveterate egg thief . |
15 | Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point . |