Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] look back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the path below I looked back towards the house . |
| 2 | I glanced at her , trying to hide my embarrassment with a swift and flippant response , but I could think of nothing to say and so I looked back at the binnacle , then up to the long moon-burnished sea ahead . |
| 3 | Then instinctively she looked back at the building , and upwards towards Luke 's room . |
| 4 | And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun . |
| 5 | Ash-Wednesday , for all its renunciation , does at times look towards the childhood of the race , but more strongly it looks back to the poet 's own childhood with which this primitivism is associated , as Eliot looks back , in language mixing ‘ Gerontion ’ , Virgil , and a new interest in his own childhood . |
| 6 | Then I looked back at the table . |
| 7 | And then she looked back at the bed and saw the naked longing in his eyes , and something that was better than desire and that was more enduring than passion broke within her , and she moved forward , and said , ‘ Oh , my dear love ’ |
| 8 | Then he looked back at the teacher . |
| 9 | Then he looked back at the T'ang , standing there , pouring a second bowl for his father . |
| 10 | Then he looked back at the hole in the ground . |
| 11 | Then he looked back along the ship . |