Example sentences of "he looked [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked around on the ground , and finally saw me . |
| 2 | In the end he looked back on Dulles as ‘ a worthy and interesting adversary — he always kept us on our toes ’ . |
| 3 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 4 | Either way , in later life he looked back on that experience as evidence that dancing could be part of everyday life in a way that it is not for most Europeans . |
| 5 | He was shadowed everywhere in Sheffield , and he looked back on the experience as his most annoying transfer hid — particularly as it turned out to be one of his rare failures . |
| 6 | It was strange ; everything he had done on the programme had seemed at the time to be imbued with an exact sense of logic and purposiveness , but now that he looked back on it , all the logical connections had disappeared , like secret writing when the special lamp is taken away . |
| 7 | He looked back on the last ten days , reflecting on the events which had brought him to where he now was . |
| 8 | He looked down on the pretty garden and saw the two of them snoring there , their front claws tucked neatly under their chins which rested on silk cushions and their tails dipped tidily into the pond whose waters did not stir enough to move their dreams to wildness . |
| 9 | No wonder Uncle Mick grinned as he looked down on the nearly-elegant sitting-room . |
| 10 | He looked down on her , his brow drawn into an angry frown . |
| 11 | They stood together for a few moments , her head sunk in his mighty chest , his head finally bowed as he looked down on her . |
| 12 | Having climbed the bank he looked down on her and smiled as he said , ‘ I did n't recognise you in civvies . |
| 13 | He looked down on the bent head , but there was no response from Millie . |
| 14 | In the dying firelight he looked down on the sleeping face of Joe the Fish . |
| 15 | After a moment , he looked down on her and smiled , openly , warmly , his transparent love of children tearing raggedly at her insides . |
| 16 | But although he looked down on Nuri he also looked up at him , and because of that Nuri had a unique ability to touch Mahmoud on the raw . |
| 17 | He looked in on the President . |