• We are in an odd way a very snobbish nation but as Alan Bennett once said, snobbery is an amiable vice when it looks upwards, it's only when it looks downward it's horrible, if you look down on people because, if you admire in some way some style of eccentricity in other people there's nothing that wrong with it.

    BBC

  • She told me she used to look down on unemployed people, too.

    CNN: Give hope to the long-term jobless

  • We cannot look down on these people.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Interview: Foreign Minister Win Aung - Page 1

  • Mr. RIVERS: Well, we were in there for about the first 24 hours reporting on the situation anonymously as you say, and we took the decision that my reports would have much more impact if I could appear on camera and look down the barrel of the lens and tell people how bad the situation was.

    NPR: Myanmar Still Barring Relief, Reporters

  • From the top of the tower you look down on to a web of canals, on to the little roof terraces that the people of the city are so fond of cultivating, and out across the flat landscape towards distant wind farms.

    BBC: A cultural tour of Bruges

  • "People do look after their own bits of ground if they have gear down on the seabed but the days of gentlemen's agreements between fishermen are long gone, " he added.

    BBC: Boat attacked in Dorset over 'scallop turf-war'

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