Example sentences of "and looked [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He moved to the bay window , parted the curtains and looked out on Champney Road . |
| 2 | It had once been the master bedroom and looked out on the woods to the east . |
| 3 | In his first North-East division fight he was rocked by a tremendous right hand from Hartlepool BC 's John Kelly in the second round and looked out on his feet . |
| 4 | She made her escape from the table , boiled the kettle and looked in on the children . |
| 5 | In return , the Royal Navy gloried in the title of the Senior Service and looked down on the Army and the Royal Air Force . |
| 6 | I was relaxed and much recovered when a nomad appeared from behind a crag fifty yards away and looked down on me . |
| 7 | The Buddha went up a mountain and looked down on Samsara ( the mundane word ) and saw it was trivial . |
| 8 | Considering themselves to be superior , they cared little for the ordinary person and looked down on the sinners . |
| 9 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 10 | As the poets say — ’ he could not bring to mind a single line and so he stopped , and looked down on the lake as if in mourning , intuiting , correctly , that this would have the same effect as a couplet . |
| 11 | He pulled the net aside and looked down on her with greedy eyes . |
| 12 | ‘ Bad joke , ’ said Tod as she turned and looked down on us . |
| 13 | Charlie came over , hitched himself half-onto the edge of the makeup table , and looked down on her . |
| 14 | ( And in the alleyway behind The Gilded Cage , the three teenagers crouched high amidst the rubbish and looked down on the body of the middle-aged woman that they 'd just uncovered . |
| 15 | As they flew over the house and looked down on colourful gardens she could see a pool of some considerable size , glittering greenly in the sun , tubs of geraniums around it . |
| 16 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 17 | Skipper stopped dead and looked down on me with a definite ‘ What on earth are you doing there ? ’ look on his face . |
| 18 | I walked the glen many times , and looked back on the few trees , lying far in the hollow , that grow near the place where the massacre is said to have begun ; while on either side were deep rock-lined , tree and fern-fringed chasms , leading into seclusions and bleak mountain summits , one could spend long hours exploring . |