Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] back at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 He increased his pace and arrived back at the hall as the church clock was striking six .
3 Culley half-rose , but Cattini put out a hand to stop him , and glanced back at the barman who lifted a bottle and dug a highball glass into an ice-container .
4 Lambert stared , and looked back at the balloon .
5 They turned quickly and looked back at the city .
6 Andrew felt his heart turn over and looked back at the view so that she should n't see what she was doing to him .
7 But she had gone only a few paces before she turned and stared back at the door , a strong sense of oddness — of wrongness — holding her in its grip .
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