Example sentences of "look back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I look back on the people who have led me very well in the past , it was those who were able to create and sustain just such a sense of challenge . |
| 2 | Many of the beaches were almost deserted in my early childhood , and to walk on a newly washed shore as the tide receded , and look back on the footsteps in the shining sand was a delight . |
| 3 | All our maypole queens , crown bearers and dancers look back on the ceremony with pride , and they still come back on the day . ’ |
| 4 | The English and Welsh , who look back on the year 1870 ( Forster 's Education Act ) as the effective starting point of a state system , were not the first in Europe to realise that a literate workforce would be needed to meet the ever more complex demands of industry . |
| 5 | Look back on the activities you have enjoyed in the past and select one to develop . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And quite clearly there is a lot of work that needs to be done because if we look back on the discussion this afternoon , er this morning er and this evening , quite clearly there are conflicting views and conflicting interpretations about various criteria , various elements of information that should er er should go into the mix . |
| 9 | ‘ You could never have imagined the club would be where they are now when you look back on the liquidation crisis , ’ he said . |
| 10 | They were moderns , they must keep faith with their generation and not look back towards the old one . |
| 11 | Ariel Poems , like Coriolan , look back to the world of Eliot 's childhood and youth , whether to his reading of Mayne Reid 's novels or to his sailing off the coast of New England . |
| 12 | ( Look back to the supposedly liberalising 1981 Contempt of Court Act and ask yourself whether its parliamentary proponents intended the general outcome that Lord Donaldson now proclaims ) . |
| 13 | ( Look back to the supposedly liberalising 1981 Contempt of Court Act and ask yourself whether its parliamentary proponents intended the general outcome that Lord Donaldson now proclaims ) . |
| 14 | Look back to the section on Fear ( pp. 26–30 ) . |
| 15 | While later law , for example , once familiar with trusts may have practised great toleration , if we look back to the origins of Roman trusts and their tentative beginnings with the rise of a consular jurisdiction , it does not seem at all plausible that absolutely any expression or gesture would immediately have been accepted . |
| 16 | Look back to the Fifties in filmstar-style frames from Christian Dior . |
| 17 | Look back to the beginning . |
| 18 | When this happens , look back to the referendum of April 25th and remember its foremost message : that Russians nowadays can rise to the occasion . |
| 19 | In their over-all coverage , therefore Genesis and the tradition represented by Atrakhasis look back to the same events . |
| 20 | I head down the track to the road , then look back to the car ; it 's almost fully hidden . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And I look back to the Alliance days and Dr Owen 's flirtation with elements of Flatcher of Flatcherism , pardon me . |
| 23 | The madrigals , more clumsy and old-fashioned , look back to the models of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder [ q.v. ] rather than forward to the looser , more expressive style of Thomas Morley [ q.v. ] ; two of them ( xxi and xxii ) borrow musically as well as textually from Ferrabosco 's settings , published by Nicholas Yonge [ q.v. ] in the influential second volume of Musica Transalpina ( 1597 ) . |
| 24 | If you look back to the cel with the plane on it , you can see its background is cyan , which has also been designated transparent , but only for that actor . |
| 25 | I look back to the works . |
| 26 | When we look back to the present , it will be perfectly clear that in many sectors of the economy , the recovery has indeed started . |
| 27 | They always look back to the old smokestack industries . |
| 28 | But you know erm if , if , if you look back to the days of the Raj erm it was a even within my living memory , erm people were joining the armed services or the overseas er er corp and the civil service overseas I suppose , yeah , er at a , at a fairly humble level and would either work their way up or they drink themselves stupid or they get mixed up with someone or they , you know but it was a , a , a recognized way of , of , of going , you know , either join the services or the |
| 29 | I think secondly erm whichever country , and you do look back to your roots , and we for better or for worse here look back to the great public school headmaster of a century ago and I still think people want that kind of dynamic drive , that entrepreneurial drive , and who 's to say they 're wrong ? |
| 30 | And then when you look back to the Greeks , for example , here you have a culture that was dramatically successful in mathematics and logic and philosophy , but actually very unsuccessful in science , and there again you have a society which has nature guards erm and so nature is not a valid object for study . |