She is proud and looks ____ on her colleague.
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First of all, be aware that you have a run-on sentence. In English, we do not bump two clauses up against one another without a conjunction. Your question should read, “What are the possible prepositions that can be used . . .” There are cases when that is not written, but understood; and your sentence is not one of them.
As to your question on the proper preposition for the statement, “She is proud . . . ,” there is already a prepositional phrase, on her colleagues. What is missing is the complete verbal phrase, to look down. Your sentence is missing the adverb, down.
Verbal phrases are often idiomatic. In other words, we must have an adverb with the verb in order to make sense. To say, “She is proud and looks on her colleagues,” is not what we mean, nor does it make sense. Thus, verbal phrases have evolved that allow us a wider scope of meaning with particular verbs.
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