Example sentences of "look down [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Italians , and indeed all foreigners , are known to be cruel to animals , thought Daisy , looking down to see if she could catch some peasant beating a horse or kicking a dog . |
| 2 | And the tall tree arched over at the top in a graceful curve like a shepherd 's crook , as if it were looking down to admire itself . |
| 3 | Looking down corrected the illusion , so instead he applied his mind to the business in hand . |
| 4 | Polly let her breath out in a whoosh of relief , looking down to check how far she still had to go . |
| 5 | Looking down carries the further risk of making him unaware of other dangers around him . |
| 6 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 7 | Eventually you will reach the point where you will wonder why one thumb appears to be getting tired and will look down to find that you were holding on a lot of stick trim without even being aware of it ! |
| 8 | He would turn his back on him while he was talking , or look down smiling into the mouthpiece . |
| 9 | But Robin-Anne did not react , and I looked down to see that she was not watching for the new day , but was crying . |
| 10 | Bloxham looked down to see that his silk tie was comprehensively spattered with puke . |
| 11 | We looked down to see goldfinches and snow buntings feasting on fallen seeds in the heaped litter of salt marsh plants : sea lavender and sea purslane . |
| 12 | Hanging helplessly in the safety straps , Ace looked down to see the cabin ceiling buckling and tearing . |
| 13 | Eventually it became too much , and one afternoon we looked down to see the bowwab moving out . |
| 14 | ‘ I think we 're — ’ He broke off abruptly as Fenella let out a cry of purest revulsion and looked down to see the Melanisms at their feet , surging thickly upwards . |
| 15 | Instinctively , the other three looked down to see if there was a coin in it . |
| 16 | But then they twitched again and I looked down to see , just above the sill , the curls and bright blue eyes of a snub-nosed child . |
| 17 | I looked down to see what was kind of stinging my finger and the ring had snapped and was pinching where it caught my finger . |
| 18 | I just looked down to see what the time was , I just looked up |
| 19 | As he looked down to put his pistol away in its holster I noticed that his face had changed . |
| 20 | Ignoring him , she looked down to put milk and sugar into her cup . |
| 21 | He looked down to hide his misery . |