Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] look back " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even diaries of terror , such as have been published from the records of survivors or victims of totalitarian regimes , were rarely written simply for the author to look back on in years to come — for European Jews there was rarely much hope of any future . |
| 2 | It is at the point in Scale 2 , where Hilton starts to emphasise this , that he uses the image of the ladder to look back at what has gone before , and to point the way ahead : The rest of the book illuminates the subtle inner movements of the personality in which man engages with the power of God to come to a knowledge of his being , the " wirkyng in a soul " when Scale 2 is more engaging as a work which marshals literary resources to illuminate Christian mystical theology . |
| 3 | But the second half of the lyric moves on from this : the completion of the line looks back to what has gone before in its rhyme , but syntactically and alliteratively it moves forward to convey the perception of that very still mourning symptomatic of the inner spiritual movement of Christ 's coming . |
| 4 | In his chair he saw the familiar features of the president looking back at him , the face he knew so well from his television set and the newspapers . |
| 5 | In 1937 the Congregationalist Albert Peel reflected on the late Victorian and Edwardian periods : ‘ Ministers who began their pastorates in the twenty years before the war look back in amazement at sermons they then preached , with their acceptance of the inevitability of progress . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ We leave winter behind us , it seems , ’ Tagan said , turning in the saddle to look back at the still-white hills . |
| 7 | This is reflected in the tendency to look back to a ‘ golden age ’ when these societies were thought to be more peaceful and law abiding . |
| 8 | BBC2 's Frost In The Air looks back over his 30-year career . |
| 9 | Manville opened the door , pausing in the portal to look back . |
| 10 | The frog in the lead looked back at his dwindling group . |
| 11 | He could approach the cataclysmic events of the forthcoming August with an adequate authority ; and he could in the future look back on 1931 with a certain complacency , as ‘ the year my party tried to get rid of me ’ . |
| 12 | Sheila had not moved from the settee , and Morse stood in the doorway looking back at her : ‘ Do n't you know ? ’ |
| 13 | Whitlock paused in the doorway to look back at Rachel . |
| 14 | The girl pulled on her wrap and moved to the door looking back over her shoulder as she went and Paula was aware of the hostility in her gaze . |
| 15 | Somehow , after half an hour , I was at the top looking back at the sign which warned ‘ Rapide Descente 300 metres ’ . |
| 16 | He took them two at a time , pausing at the top to look back across the square . |
| 17 | But she lowered her eyes and went quietly from the room , turning only at the door to look back , finding , as she 'd hoped , that Tsu Ma 's eyes were on her . |
| 18 | I jumped and slid down the slope of the dune into its shadow , then turned at the bottom to look back up at those small heads and bodies as they watched over the northern approaches to the island . |
| 19 | When he opened his eyes , the taste of blood sharp in his mouth , he expected to see the assassin disappearing into the shadows of the park , but the bizarre Mr Pie was standing at the kerb looking back at him . |
| 20 | 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 . |