Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] look back " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film . |
| 2 | As I reached the end of the student union building I looked back and gave a little finger-wiggle . |
| 3 | In this chapter I look back over responses to the challenges of curriculum planning and development in Africa in the ‘ sixties and ‘ seventies . |
| 4 | Staggering to her feet she looked back towards the wounded man ; he had slumped to the floor , and was trying to push himself back to a kneeling position . |
| 5 | These are the years I look back on as having consisted entirely of long hot summers . |
| 6 | With new confidence she looked back at him . |
| 7 | That evening we looked back on the day with our fellow guests whose interests — from birdwatching to archaeology , cave-exploring to gliding — reflected the enormous variety of activities catered for across the region . |
| 8 | That evening we looked back on the day with our fellow guests whose interests — from birdwatching to archaeology , cave-exploring to gliding — reflected the enormous variety of activities catered for across the region . |
| 9 | Now , after almost fifty years we look back and the rich variety of our doings in the years between fulfills the concept of university as a preparation for life rather than training for a specific walk of life . |
| 10 | Last night we looked back at the history of the MG , which appeared to have died a death when the factory at Abingdon closed in 1981 . |
| 11 | Central News South took to the airwaves in January nineteen eighty-nine and tomorrow night we look back over our first four years . |
| 12 | After fifty yards I looked back . |
| 13 | At the door she looked back . |
| 14 | At the door she looked back over her shoulder at Mickey , her face serene . |
| 15 | At the door he looked back at Newman . |
| 16 | Later in life he looked back upon the married time of his professorship at Durham as an idyll ; the paradisal years of his life . |
| 17 | Either way , in later life he looked back on that experience as evidence that dancing could be part of everyday life in a way that it is not for most Europeans . |
| 18 | As we reached the crossroads I looked back . |
| 19 | ‘ One day she had brought the dinners and started home , when for some reason she looked back . |
| 20 | In the end he looked back on Dulles as ‘ a worthy and interesting adversary — he always kept us on our toes ’ . |
| 21 | The way I look back on it now , I think we just let it go . |
| 22 | When the boat was under way she looked back and there were the children running in the dunes , waving to her like children anywhere . |
| 23 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |
| 24 | In the first of three parts we look back at the working life of country people featured in ’ Twenty-Four Square Miles ’ |
| 25 | As Wycliffe left the house he looked back and saw the gaunt figure still at the window . |
| 26 | When Richard at last paused at a twist in the track he looked back to see the detective , red-faced and sweating , a hundred yards below him . |