Example sentences of "[conj] look back " in BNC.
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| 1 | be ready to make informed guesses , and to correct themselves in the light of additional information , eg by reading ahead or looking back in the text ; |
| 2 | He had not kissed her or looked back , just sprinted across the snow . |
| 3 | Artists know that this has happened , but much of the art establishment has n't caught up with events , or looked back at the past in the light of that . |
| 4 | Such round , smooth shapes are the perfect foil to the railway sleepers that are used as informal steps down to the lowest level of all , a curved brick paved sitting area that looks back up towards the house . |
| 5 | And because nothing ever seems healthier or more warming than looking back at something we have just done and realising , ‘ Mmmm . |
| 6 | JUST WHAT Arsenal might have achieved in Europe this season must remain a matter for speculation , but as they sit on top of the Premier League today manager George Graham insists on thinking ahead rather than looking back . |
| 7 | One thing emphasised by every girl here who had delayed telling her parents about her pregnancy was that looking back , each wished she 'd told them earlier , since the consequences were never as bad as she 'd feared . |
| 8 | The face that looked back at her was smooth , slightly flushed from the warmth of her bath , certainly not a face that looked its forty-six years . |
| 9 | By the time Vidal Sassoon had finished with her Paula 's long fair locks had been shorn to a sharp geometric shape and she scarcely recognised the reflection that looked back at her from the mirror . |
| 10 | All in all the image that looked back at me was not displeasing . |
| 11 | But the dark eyes that looked back at her were firm and steady . |
| 12 | She had switched the apartment air-conditioning off , distrusting its effect on the health , and for a while she tried to convince herself that it was the unaccustomed humidity that made her so restless , but she did n't really believe it , and the eyes that looked back at her from her bathroom mirror in the morning were shadowy , and hunted . |
| 13 | She hardly recognised the vibrant image that looked back at her from the glass with wide , baffled eyes bright through weak , stupid tears . |
| 14 | A ragged tear ravaged the painted face that looked back at her . |
| 15 | So when your youngster barks and looks back at you , reassure him with a pat . |
| 16 | Grant Simons presents a view of the inside of the North American XB-70 Valkyrie at the USAF Museum and looks back into the type 's turbulent past |
| 17 | He puts the phone down and looks back at me . |
| 18 | Omi looked steadily at Erika for a long moment , and looking back into Omi 's fine , hooded eyes , Erika sensed for the first time ever , not merely that Omi was an old woman who walked rather slowly , was glad of help in undressing , and who , on days when her arthritis was very bad , needed her meat cutting for her . |
| 19 | The first major teen icon whose work is grounded not in anticipation and impatience , but vacillation , resignation and looking back . |
| 20 | But I 'm exhausted now , half-dead and looking back , see that Stewpid is gaining on me , has halved the distance between us … my breath comes in jags , my chest is going to explode . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought it was a great song , one of the best I 'd written , but the rest of the group had their doubts , and looking back I was completely wrong , and made a fool of myself . |
| 22 | And looking back on it , when you think about his own experience — he 'd been Home Secretary , Chancellor of the Exchequer and Foreign Secretary — I think most of his Cabinet colleagues who served under him would say he was a better prime minister than he was a secretary of state in either of these three roles . |
| 23 | As a pair they really were an excellent entry and looking back , I am somewhat amazed that my aunt ever plucked up the courage to parade around the streets . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , Dennis 's comment still rankled , and looking back on what had happened earlier I pondered the possibility of evening the score by seducing his wife . |
| 25 | ‘ But , like it or not , we were there and involved in it , and looking back the amazing thing for me is I 'm sitting here , breathing , after all that . |
| 26 | So I started using guitar as the main line instrument and changed the band name to The Otis Grand Big Blues Band and looking back , it 's the best thing I 've done . ’ |
| 27 | I little knew then what the future held for me and looking back I can see what a lot I had to learn . |
| 28 | ‘ But United did n't , and looking back it was just the start of their slide . |
| 29 | Anselm had no doubt where justice lay : ‘ No man having put his hand to the plough [ that is to say , in this case , having committed himself to a monastic life ] and looking back , is fit for the kingdom of Heaven . ’ |
| 30 | Something terrible had happened in the time between his looking away and looking back . |