Example sentences of "[noun pl] look back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she leant forward and kissed him on the mouth , brushed his lips , stroked them with hers , watched his eyes looking back at her . |
| 2 | We have taken various risks looking back over the years , like Wapping . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then , as the blue eyes looked back at her with a flicker of curiosity , she responded automatically , ‘ So , you have trouble sleeping ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And Legal & General shareholders have better times to look back on than most . |
| 7 | Look at the implications looking back over it when when Fire and Public Protection had produced their report , but certainly the things are and it 's quite clear that we all know this case in my particular the river has been constricted by some thoroughly bad planning decisions and development control districts and they 're paying them that the owners are paying the penalty for that erm reducing the ditches and er building over them and okay we 've got problems erm so er there are structure plan implications erm which I do n't I think we should miss and if we say that really building on a is a principle well then we should try it right into the structure plan or looking at local plans for approval that we actually look at this a little bit more carefully . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 10 | Whereas the left might base itself on the thoughts of Karl Marx , the libertarians look back to Adam Smith and an extreme ideology of laissez-faire capitalism . |
| 11 | I have wonderful memories to look back on . |
| 12 | His intention is to form a complete collection , covering the whole of his working life , so that he will have a real store of memories to look back upon in his old age . |
| 13 | All our maypole queens , crown bearers and dancers look back on the ceremony with pride , and they still come back on the day . ’ |
| 14 | Since the Greeks looked back on the Mycenaean past as a ‘ Golden Age ’ of gods and heroes , they tended to regard history as a decline from this ideal state and not as an ultimate order of reality . |
| 15 | Monks looked back at him with hatred . |
| 16 | To the Jew this was the great saving act of God to which all later generations looked back with thankfulness . |
| 17 | His policies looked back to the more aggressive activities of his father ; he fought the Alans , and he attacked Arles . |
| 18 | Christians , both Catholic and Protestant , have argued thus , as have Muslim scholars looking back to a golden age when Islamic thinkers were at the forefront of the physical sciences . |
| 19 | This method of teaching , though daunting at first far the pupil , is a formative experience , the aspect of the course to which most Oxford graduates look back with most gratitude . |
| 20 | The Poles looked back to two periods of greatness — the kingdom of the Piasts , which disintegrated in the twelfth century , and that of the Jagiellonians under whose rule Poland 's frontiers were extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea . |
| 21 | As the minority population became more vociferous in its demands and more openly nationalist and republican , the stature of Paisley in the loyalist camp was proportionately increased because Protestants looked back at what he had been saying in the early days of O'Neill 's reign and saw that ‘ he had been right all along ’ . |
| 22 | In a handbill of 1818 the cotton weavers looked back to earnings of 15s 9d ( 78p ) a week in 1802 – 3 , which had been " pretty near upon a par with other Mechanicks and we maintained our rank in Society " . |
| 23 | When crisis hit the watch-making trade in 1817 , the distressed watch makers looked back on prouder days when , if misfortune did befall one of their number , the " trade " not the poor rate would have taken care of him . |