Example sentences of "looking [adv prt] on that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking back on that period , Mr Li lamented , ‘ Some sectors of the economy were so decentralised that the state 's ability to exercise macro-control was weakened . ’ |
| 2 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 3 | Looking back on that episode , I often wonder . |
| 4 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 5 | And er , but I felt and I feel looking back on that particular er decade between nineteen sixty and nineteen seventy , that the work which the shop steward 's movement did er even in a preliminary way , prior to the Donovan Report coming out , was based on reason and fair play . |
| 6 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 7 | Looking back on that moment now , she felt it tremble before her , round and perfect as an overfull drip , and she caught her breath at the thought of its transitoriness , its shimmering beauty , and suddenly whispered to herself , ‘ I am happy , ’ as if she feared it might not last forever . |
| 8 | Looking back on that moment , it had often occurred to Shiona that it had marked the path that their future relationship was to take . |