Example sentences of "[pron] look back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look back at the old woman , marvelling at Enid and Philip for finding her interesting enough to talk about . |
| 2 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 3 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 4 | I looked back at the first . |
| 5 | Wistfully , I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well . |
| 6 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 7 | I think it 'll come but , well , we 're rather impatient I think when you look back over the past hundred years you see some massive erm changes which are quite unprecedented . |
| 8 | She looked back on the whole expanse of land |
| 9 | She looked back at the comatose Thomas and smiled . |
| 10 | Now , as the throbbing drone of the aircraft 's engines broke through her dark memories , and she wearily attempted to make herself more comfortable in her seat , Laura almost groaned aloud when she looked back at the total innocence and naïveté of her much younger self . |
| 11 | She looked back through the many pages she had written , and saw the great names glitter there — Proclus , Plotinus , Iamblichus , Ficino , Pico , Agrippa . |
| 12 | Staggering to her feet she looked back towards the wounded man ; he had slumped to the floor , and was trying to push himself back to a kneeling position . |
| 13 | They were things that you took to enhance your experience and to make it more intense — to make your personal development became part of your life , It was a very high-minded approach and when one looks at what has happened to the drug scene today and one looks back to the prevailing attitudes at the time , one can see the absolute , total abhorrence among drug takers that I knew in those days of amphetamines , heroin , barbiturates , mandrax — all those things that had an adverse physical effect which were considered to by highly dangerous to one 's personal development and to one 's daily living . |
| 14 | If we look back over the past twenty-five years or so , we can distinguish three main phases : |
| 15 | John Howard , acutely aware of such slippage , argued that good staff and external vigilance were essential if reform efforts were to be sustained , but this view , as we look back over the last two centuries , may have been unduly optimistic . |
| 16 | And it 's also important that we look back over the last ten years to how the N H S has been fundamentally changed as a consequence of Tory government policy towards it . |
| 17 | If we look back at the previous example of the combustion of methane , we see that the enthalpy term was far larger than the entropy term . |
| 18 | The Agency 's work strategy has , has been made available to members , and erm , I think if we look back to a previous Committee , where the er , information was provided , that we had been successful . |
| 19 | If we look back to the middle years of the nineteenth century and to the debates about the extension of the franchise to the working class then hopes were expressed as to how voters should behave at the same time as there was anxiety and fear as to how they would actually behave . |
| 20 | We looked back at the crumbling house . |
| 21 | Rachaela made herself look back at the white face of her child . |
| 22 | He looks back on a stimulating and happy relationship with his fellow Board members . |
| 23 | But more affecting still is the first half of the record , in which he looks back with a wry , but far from dry , eye on his own childhood . |
| 24 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 25 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 26 | He looked back on the last ten days , reflecting on the events which had brought him to where he now was . |
| 27 | He was turning back towards his car when he looked back with a casual afterthought . |
| 28 | She watched him turn to one of the inner doors , his head somehow lowered , and when he reached it he looked back with an aggressive jerk of his head . |
| 29 | Later in life he looked back upon the married time of his professorship at Durham as an idyll ; the paradisal years of his life . |