Example sentences of "back at the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , as the throbbing drone of the aircraft 's engines broke through her dark memories , and she wearily attempted to make herself more comfortable in her seat , Laura almost groaned aloud when she looked back at the total innocence and naïveté of her much younger self . |
| 2 | Clasper screamed back at the chanting mob that they were management lackeys who had been conned by Peters , and sold down the river by Bunker . |
| 3 | Manville glanced back at the black sedan as the taxi surged forward . |
| 4 | Holly no longer looked at him , he stared back at the stunted ruin that had been the office of the Commandant . |
| 5 | Macedonian vehicles were being turned back at the Greek border and hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Salonika ( Greek Macedonia ) protested on Feb. 14 at the republic 's use of the name Macedonia . |
| 6 | The Governor glanced back at the solitary warder and nodded . |
| 7 | He glanced back at the dead girl and smiled , as if to chide her gently for her folly . |
| 8 | But he seems to have succeeded in executing a ragged but effective withdrawal , hesitating and equivocating his way back at the last session until night fell over the battlefield . |
| 9 | I like certain things ragged right for example , or fairly simple pages , but erm you can look back at the sixteenth century and find extremely simple pages , you know it 's not a modern idea and the thing is that most of the eddies and currents of popular graphic design are little stylistic exclusions that never go anywhere . |
| 10 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 11 | So , too , the third of them , Stevens , who stood to one side , looking back at the wall-length window and its view of the great circle of the spaceport 's landing apron . |