Example sentences of "back at the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed .
2 All she knew was that she was back at the closed door with a tray , wondering what Harold and Felicity might be doing on the other side .
3 A glance back at the collective situation of first generation Caribbeans in the UK is enough to understand why black parents do not encourage their children 's sporting endeavours .
4 This month I 'd like to take the opportunity to look back at the current series of articles featuring the Pentatonic scale , taking stock of our command of the scale all over the fretboard .
5 As the Docklands beer festival fades from view , Martyn Cornell looks back at the sad demise of brewing in the Cockney heartland
6 She turned round and pointed back at the Victorian building with the campanile chimney .
7 Laura took in the boundless wealth surrounding her , the possibilities of power , she gazed back at the golden coffin of the false messiah and back at Jonathan .
8 He stumbled but did n't fall , turning his motion to attack with balletic ease , and coming back at the other man with tremendous force .
9 He poured out , sat back at the other end of the sofa , looked at her .
10 You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools .
11 But by looking back at the archaic phase of Greek history and forward to later autocrats , as we have done with the Sicilian tyrants , we can remind ourselves that the democratic interludes of Greek history were not merely short but untypical — in Syracuse , Macedon , Cyrene and satrapal Asia Minor one-man rule was normal for much of the period 479–323 BC .
12 ‘ But there 's nothing , ’ Clare repeated in amazement , as she followed Caro over the raw uneven ground , and looked back at the truncated ends of the streets they were leaving behind them .
13 Meredith looked back at the heaving throng on the shop floor .
14 Looking back at the tangled web of confused events we can see that the answer had already emerged .
15 If we look back at the previous example of the combustion of methane , we see that the enthalpy term was far larger than the entropy term .
16 PARISHIONERS and clergy looked back at the past year on Sunday when Headley 's annual vestry and parish meetings were held at the Church Centre .
17 Scotland Today is back at the same time on Monday .
18 Are you back at the old business with Klein ? ’
19 Beyond the glass there was a sporadically placed ring of guards and dogs who seemed uncertain as to whether to stare back at the distorted press of faces at the glass panes , or whether to watch instead the spiral column of smoke and the flames that played at its heels .
20 Back at the stratospheric level of government , Bridges pursued the problem of the performance of the Cabinet system with Attlee and recorded a note of the conversation which took place in No. 10 on 26 July 1946 :
21 Back at the Military Port in Marchwood , the working day for the remainder of the regiment would not start for another hour and a half .
22 It may be questioned whether this change achieves very much of a practical nature since ( a ) one still needs to look back at the common law of detinue to determine what constitutes the new form of conversion and ( b ) there still survive two torts of interference with property which have a considerable overlap with conversion , i.e .
23 Rachaela made herself look back at the white face of her child .
24 Wistfully , I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well .
25 He did n't look back at the sudden commotion behind him and , when a shadow passed over him , merely gibbered weakly and tried to burrow into the horse 's mane .
26 Then back at the green image on the screen .
27 Crossing the bridge , look back at the romantic view of the palaces backing on to the canal .
28 He was back at the open unit on 9 June 1991 , but the following day he absconded again and this time was absent for 94 days .
29 Meanwhile back at the Regimental Museum in Gloucester , George Newhouse remembered the moment 41 years ago when the Chinese attacked .
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