Example sentences of "look back at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | And she might have accepted that but for the wry flicker in the eyes of the reflection that had looked back at her from the bathroom mirror . |
2 | She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again . |
3 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
4 | By the time Vidal Sassoon had finished with her Paula 's long fair locks had been shorn to a sharp geometric shape and she scarcely recognised the reflection that looked back at her from the mirror . |
5 | She hardly recognised the vibrant image that looked back at her from the glass with wide , baffled eyes bright through weak , stupid tears . |
6 | They looked back at him with the bright eyes of rats in old people 's faces and when he asked them a question . |