Example sentences of "[noun pl] look back on " in BNC.

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1 And Legal & General shareholders have better times to look back on than most .
2 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 ?
3 I have wonderful memories to look back on .
4 All our maypole queens , crown bearers and dancers look back on the ceremony with pride , and they still come back on the day . ’
5 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 .
6 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 .
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