Example sentences of "[verb] back at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Judith Grossman 's novel , Her Own Terms , published in 1988 , looks back at a working-class scholarship-girl in the 1950s , who goes to Oxford from a South London Grammar school ; Grossman shows in passing how formidably well-read and linguistically equipped her heroine was .
2 As the Docklands beer festival fades from view , Martyn Cornell looks back at the sad demise of brewing in the Cockney heartland
3 Chris was looking back at a colourful four-wheeled cart drawn by two tasselled horses .
4 Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed .
5 Looking back at the bell-box Sorvino was tempted to find a half-brick and try to put it out , but that would be fun and not duty .
6 Maybe in forty years time , people will be looking back at the good old days of the Nineties to see which rising stars started their careers playing North-East venues .
7 Tsu Ma turned , looking back at the young man .
8 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 .
9 He levelled off about ten feet above the ground and banked as he climbed , looking back at the red flag .
10 So , too , the third of them , Stevens , who stood to one side , looking back at the wall-length window and its view of the great circle of the spaceport 's landing apron .
11 Looking back at the tangled web of confused events we can see that the answer had already emerged .
12 Macedonian vehicles were being turned back at the Greek border and hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in Salonika ( Greek Macedonia ) protested on Feb. 14 at the republic 's use of the name Macedonia .
13 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 .
14 Shiona had smiled back at the fair-haired youth who had so recently become her brother .
15 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 .
16 Even if Fiver 's wrong and nothing terrible hits happened back at the old warren , I 'd still say we 're better off here .
17 He arrived back at the appointed spot some ten minutes early , and spent an irritable half-hour tramping up and down before Lefevre 's return .
18 And when they arrived back at the ruined castle the fox was given a share of the supper and a place by the fire .
19 ‘ Although Tara never is really dark , ’ said Caspar as they stopped to look back at the great shining edifice outlined against the sky .
20 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 .
21 He left the convent with Amsterdam , not turning to look back at the ancient pile .
22 ‘ We leave winter behind us , it seems , ’ Tagan said , turning in the saddle to look back at the still-white hills .
23 In this situation , it is often useful to look back at the good things you have achieved and the good times you 've enjoyed in the past .
24 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 .
25 The hon. Gentleman should look back at the Labour party 's record in government before he starts to criticise ours .
26 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 .
27 Rachaela made herself look back at the white face of her child .
28 Crossing the bridge , look back at the romantic view of the palaces backing on to the canal .
29 I look back at the old woman , marvelling at Enid and Philip for finding her interesting enough to talk about .
30 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 .
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