Example sentences of "look back [prep] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , one looks back to the nineteenthcentury origins of English literary studies , when the first pioneers and missionaries , men such as Morley and Furnivall , travelled all over the country to talk about English literature in adult education classes and working men 's clubs . |
| 2 | This use of nursery rhyme looks back to The Waste Land with its ‘ London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down ’ and anticipates another explicit nursery rhyme which , in slightly distorted form , opens section V of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ . |
| 3 | Revising the original articles for Notes towards the Definition of Culture , he complicated his argument 's texture by involving more material relevant to his personal history and to the history of his work , such as that mention of Heart of Darkness which looks back to The Waste Land . |
| 4 | Looking back to the opening statement of the first article last month , we must remember that in the main we are thinking about these designs as decoration rather than as pure picture-making . |
| 5 | Cardiff pushed past , and now they were all heading down that corridor past the two elevators on their left ; still looking back to the reception doors lest that monstrous shadow should suddenly reappear . |
| 6 | His face was a mask of alarm and he was looking back to the office door and the cabinet which was pushed up against it . |
| 7 | ‘ I came to ask you to supper , ’ she babbled looking back into the drawing room . |
| 8 | Looking back over the Birthday Scheme Register , there are gaps in some people 's giving for some months . |
| 9 | Looking back from the vantage point of the twentieth-century ‘ welfare state ’ we can also see , however , that every state , even when it has had a primarily repressive character , has also performed other necessary functions in the coordination and regulation of complex societies , especially through the development of a system of law , and in some cases — as with the Roman Empire — has had a generally civilizing influence . |
| 10 | If you like to look back at the cathedral office in an hour , I 'll see it 's ready for you . |
| 11 | It is a complacent researcher indeed who does not look back on the research findings and wish that some things had been done better . |
| 12 | If he wants a depressing story , he should look back to the housing expenditure of the last Labour Government . |
| 13 | ‘ You could never have imagined the club would be where they are now when you look back on the liquidation crisis , ’ he said . |
| 14 | And I look back to the Alliance days and Dr Owen 's flirtation with elements of Flatcher of Flatcherism , pardon me . |
| 15 | In the first of three parts we look back at the working life of country people featured in ’ Twenty-Four Square Miles ’ |
| 16 | Connon took a last look back at the gathering gloom before he stepped into the house . |
| 17 | Edward , alone in his room in the long wastes of those summer days , looked back into the exercise books and noted his own absence . |
| 18 | Tolonen sniffed , then looked back at the squad leader . |
| 19 | Jimmy looked back at the plaster wall incredulously . |
| 20 | I looked back at the school buildings . |
| 21 | Corbett looked back at the tavern doorway now thronged with onlookers . |
| 22 | We looked back at the tournament leaders on the seventeenth . |
| 23 | She looked back towards the fig tree and saw that the toad had lumbered off into the tangled garden , perhaps to rejoin its tormentor . |
| 24 | Not knowing what else to say , she looked back towards the stage area in time to see a man with a fiddle emerge from a side-room , and all conversation magically hushed . |