Example sentences of "[noun pl] look back [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PARISHIONERS and clergy looked back at the past year on Sunday when Headley 's annual vestry and parish meetings were held at the Church Centre . |
| 2 | You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools . |
| 3 | It may be questioned whether this change achieves very much of a practical nature since ( a ) one still needs to look back at the common law of detinue to determine what constitutes the new form of conversion and ( b ) there still survive two torts of interference with property which have a considerable overlap with conversion , i.e . |
| 4 | Since the Greeks looked back on the Mycenaean past as a ‘ Golden Age ’ of gods and heroes , they tended to regard history as a decline from this ideal state and not as an ultimate order of reality . |
| 5 | Christians , both Catholic and Protestant , have argued thus , as have Muslim scholars looking back to a golden age when Islamic thinkers were at the forefront of the physical sciences . |