Example sentences of "and look back " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when your youngster barks and looks back at you , reassure him with a pat . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | He puts the phone down and looks back at me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The first major teen icon whose work is grounded not in anticipation and impatience , but vacillation , resignation and looking back . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | I little knew then what the future held for me and looking back I can see what a lot I had to learn . |
| 14 | ‘ But United did n't , and looking back it was just the start of their slide . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | Something terrible had happened in the time between his looking away and looking back . |
| 17 | ‘ I was given such a very early start in the game and looking back now I think of it as an even more remarkable achievement than I did at the time , ’ says Dozzell . |
| 18 | And then she heard a gunshot and the sound of a horn , and looking back she saw , high on Ballymacadoyle Hill , her own father and brothers and a crowd of others too , and they were waving and shouting — and suddenly she understood exactly what was happening : they were giving her their last farewell ; she was leaving Ireland , and might never return . |
| 19 | He crossed the road , pausing on the kerb and looking back towards the Lancia . |
| 20 | When I search a farmland site I always keep careful records , and looking back to my notes I started to search the areas where there had been the greatest concentration of finds . |
| 21 | ‘ Leaving aside what you thought at the time , and looking back , could he have driven the car to Exeter after disposing of his wife ? ’ |
| 22 | They dropped the log and scrambled away from the stream and through the hedge , running over the field , then stopping half-way and looking back . |
| 23 | I tried to banish the idea of a drowned Shelley by conjuring up the memory of Mary stepping into Lake Geneva and looking back at me over her shoulder ; instead came a more ferocious image — that of a gigantic man leaping towards me : not the best picture to help one through these present circumstances . |
| 24 | well the bit where it meets , pattern should be over the door , so it 's not until you 're in the room and looking back out |
| 25 | And looking back on his emergence from absolute idealism , he says of himself that he came to hate the stuffiness of supposing that space and time were only in the mind . |
| 26 | To confirm this we have to pause and look back from the road to Aubeterre as it climbs the eastern slope of the valley of the Tude , just as Pound must have paused in 1911 ; and then we see that , whereas the modern town of Chalais is in the river bottom , old Chalais , a manorial village grouped round the gate of the château , does indeed stand on the ridge behind , so that the tops of the tallest poplars by the river wave just below the walls of the château . |
| 27 | He resisted the temptation to turn around and look back up the street to where he knew the turn for Montgomery Street lay . |
| 28 | Far away along the path we saw him turn and look back at the hound . |
| 29 | Periodically I pause and look back . |
| 30 | Now they can reject these and look back more objectively at the implicitly racist atmosphere of their primary school days . |