Example sentences of "look back " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not look back . |
| 2 | No one can look back at you like that unless … |
| 3 | To confirm this we have to pause and look back from the road to Aubeterre as it climbs the eastern slope of the valley of the Tude , just as Pound must have paused in 1911 ; and then we see that , whereas the modern town of Chalais is in the river bottom , old Chalais , a manorial village grouped round the gate of the château , does indeed stand on the ridge behind , so that the tops of the tallest poplars by the river wave just below the walls of the château . |
| 4 | Ten years ago I remember I used to think that it was our mental hospitals which later generations would regard as the most staggering and incomprehensible blind spot of our time , on which they would look back as we do upon the generations which burnt witches or tried by ordeal . |
| 5 | The Norton Lectures do not simply look back sadly . |
| 6 | In London or Dublin the girls would look back to the house for healing . |
| 7 | I do n't look back or nothing . |
| 8 | All we can say is do n't look back ! |
| 9 | Clearly they have some way to go but they can still look back on 1989 with a glimmer of pride . |
| 10 | Basingstoke will inevitably look back . |
| 11 | Basingstoke can look back with pride , not only in a record crowd of 4,091 but in extending the reputation of non-League clubs for friendliness . |
| 12 | But first let us look back briefly at the events from 1945 to 1956 that provided the prologue to the post-imperial era which began at Suez . |
| 13 | I believe that in 100 years people will look back on the middle of the twentieth century as a nightmare period when mankind suddenly discovered the means to destroy itself , and was seriously considering using this as a preferable alternative to reconciling differing political views . |
| 14 | A year from now , in all likelihood , the world will look back on a merely disappointing year of little or no growth in Britain and America , of solid progress in Germany and Japan , of catastrophes skirted in the Gulf and the Soviet Union . |
| 15 | Thomas could now look back on the papers he had begun , or completed and sold in his first two terms , as ‘ vain stuff ’ but he continued to write verses , which were sent to Harry and Helen . |
| 16 | Let's look back , for a moment , at the Hard Times of the Thirties . |
| 17 | In the age of the life-support machine , we may sometimes look back wistfully to those days , when doctors and relatives of the moribund person were not faced with the agonising decision whether or not to preserve the existence of a human vegetable . |
| 18 | As they joined the road , an impulse made Mungo look back . |
| 19 | But like every artist , one can always look back and see where things could have been improved . |
| 20 | He did not look back . |
| 21 | Only then did he dare look back over his shoulder . |
| 22 | Only then did he look back at Mariana . |
| 23 | ‘ You may look back down the mountain . |
| 24 | By 1988 the nuclear industry could therefore look back on over ten years of total failure to solve a problem of its own creation . |
| 25 | To define Rottweiler character , we must look back to the breed 's history . |
| 26 | me we said we would n't look back . |
| 27 | dreary and black , I 'll remind you to remind me we said we would n't look back . |
| 28 | I was convinced , and did not afterwards look back , that the only solution would be a bold one . |
| 29 | You will eventually look back on this seemingly grim period in your life with affection and gratitude . |
| 30 | Let us now look back from this idyllic scene and discover the implications . |