It's easy to look down on down-and-outs and forget that they are a community in their own right. |
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However, if we look down a long stretch of straight parallel lines, such as a pair of railway tracks, they appear to meet. |
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On the odd occasion I managed to look down, I could see the float out of the water rushing frantically from side to side. |
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There was no sign of the Moon but the odd star managed to look down through gaps in the belts of cloud. |
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Getting shot at, mortared, etc. does not give him the right to look down at his fellow soldiers. |
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Jocks respect physical prowess and look down on unfit people for being weak and lazy. |
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We're not slumming, we don't look down on you and we're here to have fun, too. |
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If you turn to speak to a passenger or look down to set a navaid while rolling, for example, a swerve is a distinct possibility. |
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There have always been classical and opera snobs who look down on the inferior world of pop and rock. |
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It could be that more educated charismatics believe that educated people in general look down upon charismatic practices in churches. |
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The soft words made him look down at the bowed head of the man he had come to care so much for. |
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Now finally alone in the bathroom of the inn, I look down at my hands, at the veins running under the skin. |
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She was at least a head shorter than he and he could look down on the top of her head, smell the light, flowery fragrance of her hair. |
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It was now both of their turns to watch out, so as Megan stepped she would look down the hall on Marvolo's side and vice versa. |
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Now I find more than a few Brisbane sophisticates similarly look down on culturally deprived bushies such as myself. |
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Return to the cairn and carry on up to the North Peak, where you can look down over the buttresses. |
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And where a theorem may present some problem, he may always look down to the numerical examples for help. |
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Narrow decks with ship-like railings look down on a starkly plain, half-moon courtyard, empty except for two dead trees. |
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Does he see how I look down my nose at the enthusiastic choir member who sings off-key? |
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Government ministers look down on the health service and don't quite understand. |
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I wonder if the people look down on us queuing up and laugh, thinking you wouldn't catch me in a car. |
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In Greenland, I was helicoptered up to the top of a mountain, from where you can look down on these amazing blue structures. |
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They put him up high so, when we go to pay our respects, he can look down on us for a change. |
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The girls look down from the high wire riding bicycles across the taut cable toward each other. |
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From time to time I'd look down at the floor at our four matching hiking boots. |
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On the way from Delhi to Jaipur are the hill forts of Jaigarh and Nahargarh that look down on the city. |
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How they must look down at us sitting there, sweltering away in the morning sun, and laugh their heads off at us. |
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Before heading for the coast I made a pass over Mt Caburn and had a look down into the quarry at the east side of it. |
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When I went higher still, I was able to look down on a great expanse of white cloud, looking like giant clumps of spotlessly clean cotton wool. |
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Their weathered faces, full of character, look down upon Lee as he fixes a bridle. |
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These were not only a pleasure to look down upon from a bedroom window but sent up clouds of agreeable smells to mitigate the fetid interiors. |
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Proper placement of a permanent mirror in your home can help you look down a hallway before you have to stick your head in. |
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Examine the target closely, then look down to make sure the clubface is aimed exactly on the line where the ball will begin its flight. |
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I look down to a meadow in Central Park and see tiny muffled moppets frisking around like children in a Dutch painting. |
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The funicular would suddenly stop, and you would look down and see the village miles below. |
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Another marine did his best to sneer and look down his nose, though the effect was hardly impressing. |
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The park has a really cool hawk tower where you can look down on the Olive Sparrows and ducks, grebes and herons on the water. |
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As he look down upon their rivals from the dizzy heights of pole position, complacency is the only real gremlin to fear. |
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From there they could look down on the city's fine new skyscrapers and modern apartment blocks. |
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Free State look down and out but a wounded Cheetah is always dangerous and the Sharks will do well to take four points from the match. |
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She slowed to a walk, and then stopped, turning around to look down the street. |
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It was possible to swim alongside the side of the wreck and look down towards the seabed. |
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I look down, and my stomach hits the back of my throat before deciding to settle around my Adam's apple. |
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The seats are steeply raked and we look down at the operating table, a slab of wood like a butcher's block. |
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I reach a small flat and remove my pack, look down, and see Asia about 50 feet away. |
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He scrubbed his skin until it was raw and red, stopping to look down at a tattoo on his right upper arm. |
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I think it's anti-feminist to look down on any choice a woman makes in how she spends her time. |
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This means if I want to jump back ten seconds I have to look down to find the correct rewind button. |
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His dialogues border on the vulgar and the lewd and thanks to his ilk, we know why people look down upon the rustic. |
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Historical lexicographers, like myself, even look down on what is regarded as the Golden Age of Language. |
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After one longing look down the path, she turned around, and started running back the way she'd come. |
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One could stand at one end of the street and look down an endless row of saddles and handlebars. |
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I look up at him and he's smiling so sadly that tears cloud my eyes before I can even look down. |
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The residents of Miami used to look down on Hispanic food and culture, but now they can't get enough of it. |
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She had expected the girls to look down their noses at her obvious lack of tact and knowledge of titles and English customs. |
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Passing over the ship's holds I look down upon sedate shoals of crescent-tailed bigeyes, their reflective tapetums looking like silver cataracts. |
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He stopped a foot away and bent into a bow to look down at her, smooth eyes twinkling. |
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From the top of the ridge you can see a number of mountain tarns and look down into the Wairau Valley on the other side. |
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I look down onto that finely manicured turf, and I can feel how much this game means to the players. |
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People here don't want others to look down on them, so they'll go anywhere to earn more. |
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I stand and look down at the needle as I thread it with ease and neatly begin stitching. |
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At close intervals are semi-circular bastions with eyelets for archers to look down and shoot at the enemy. |
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He can look down on all of us, has side windows through which to view the world, and a skylight to the stars. |
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As we look down the inside length of the unit, on the left hand side at the rear is a nice cable tidy, to keep the power leads out of your way. |
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Most of the people in the club are snobs who look down on people who attended public schools. |
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A large bridge, one often traversed by commuters to the city and a place often visited to look down at the lazy river, spanned the waterway in a gentle arc. |
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The final conclusion was that people who live in well-off places usually feel superior and look down upon people who live in relatively undeveloped regions. |
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Renovated and restyled a few years ago, The Roman Bath was formerly structured to allow punters to look down on to the 2,000 year old caldarium from which it takes its name. |
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As I hold his hand I look down and see a ring on his right ring finger. |
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We were all roped up at the time for safety, but it is still an amazing feeling to look down past your feet and see a sheer drop of nearly 1,000 ft. |
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It was really nice just to follow the cliffs and look down onto a dead calm sea with a setting sun in the west giving the whole scene a nice warm glow. |
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He gestured for everyone to look down into a little vale that opened up to the side of their path. |
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You look down and see you're only wearing tights, tights that have severe rips and runs up and down the leg. |
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Yet its opulent, mouldering furnishings appear intact, its books look down from the shelves, their spines unspoiled but their pages crumbled by termites. |
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From the wooden gallery you look down into the entrance hall. |
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Hadley has the casual-chic fashion look down and is as comfortable at 1Oak as he is in the boardroom. |
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We were very careful on dunny can day to run to the gate and look down the road to ensure that the cart was nowhere in sight before answering nature's call. |
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I glance out of the window and through a late-afternoon haze look down on a sea that is the light blue of a blackbird's egg, its texture that of ruffled taffeta. |
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Through a window, visitors can look down from the newly renovated gallery, with its white walls and Persian carpet, into the glowing forge of the sooty blacksmith shop. |
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At the end of their call, the kid told Becker he would still walk over the bridge, but from now on would not look down. |
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The crowd has swelled so you can't move, let alone photograph, so I make for a restaurant on a first floor from where I can look down on the concert below. |
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Stand aft to look down on the wake frothing up from the propeller wash. |
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Occasionally he climbed the belfry to inspect the faulty bell, and then he was able to look down on the whole village as it went about its business. |
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The guy makes a big bet and I look down to find a pair of tens. |
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Looking out the window, I can see an orange flame of whimsical light skimming the horizon, and hues of blue to grey look down benignly from above. |
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He had to look down the barrel of potential Communist victories in Berlin and Indochina. |
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Most people touring the 302-square-kilometre Lushan National Park will be unruffled when they stand in front of perpendicular cliffs and look down on deep valleys. |
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I wish she had seen the elderly nursing home residents being winched off rooftops on to a helicopter, wrapping sheets around their heads as they were too scared to look down. |
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The team files off the bus on game day in a quiet, reserved and orderly fashion, with most players wearing serious expressions as they look down, avoiding any eye contact. |
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It's made even worse, since my traditional Conservative family in the shires would look down on arriviste Dai Cameron. |
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Hitchcock used the effect to look down the tower shaft to emphasise its height and Scottie's disorientation. |
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I look down and the little one has already cut right through my ball sac and is in the process of slicing my left nad free. |
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Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations. |
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I'm about a foot taller than Doris, so I look down on her tiny curls, each one a perfect rosette of blue icing under a saranwrap tent. |
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Never did four walls look down upon an uglier spectacle than these sisters rivalling in unsisterliness. |
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In addition, please offer a small probe to use just above the breastbone between the collar bones to look down into the upper mediastinum. |
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You'll look down into the serpentine Goosenecks of the San Juan River and see Monument Valley, miles in the distance. |
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While he has the guyliner look down, preparing for the role didn't come so naturally for Cruise. |
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When the rest of us look down on the upper class, it's called inverted snobbery. |
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I look down at my sketchpad, trying to perfect the native Flamboyant tree in front of me. |
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As I look down the road at the blue boxes each fortnight since Christmas, it seems that every box is almost empty. |
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I hated all creepy crawly things, whether bugs, spiders or snakes and had no desire to look down at the creeptacular scene below us. |
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We may look down our noses at his ideas, but one may be sure that in outlook he was far closer to a Maya priest astronomer than is an astronomer of our century. |
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