Example sentences of "[pers pn] look back [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 He said , said you were just standing there and all of a sudden he said you looked at me looked back at the wall just went pee he said it 's all come out , it 's all splattered all over the wall he said , you did your fly up , wiped your mouth , washed your hands and went out again as if nothing had happened .
2 I look back at the old woman , marvelling at Enid and Philip for finding her interesting enough to talk about .
3 I look back at the door .
4 He was a ‘ chest case ’ for years and when I look back at the photographs of him he 's always trying to look normal but actually his face is pained from trying to breathe .
5 When I look back at the photographs I think And even when it was long I had , there was one hairdresser there called Paul , whom I 'd go and see regularly .
6 If I look back on the people who have led me very well in the past , it was those who were able to create and sustain just such a sense of challenge .
7 And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun .
8 When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest .
9 And I look back to the Alliance days and Dr Owen 's flirtation with elements of Flatcher of Flatcherism , pardon me .
10 I look back to the works .
11 When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life .
12 I could n't look at them ; nor could I look back into the room .
13 I looked back into the cupboard .
14 I looked back down the hill hoping a vehicle would be coming .
15 Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion .
16 Wistfully , I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well .
17 I looked back at the house as Adrian drove away .
18 I glanced at her , trying to hide my embarrassment with a swift and flippant response , but I could think of nothing to say and so I looked back at the binnacle , then up to the long moon-burnished sea ahead .
19 As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film .
20 I looked back at the bed , at June rigid in ecstasis , her eyes blank and upturned .
21 I looked back at the first .
22 I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley .
23 Then , as I looked back at the dark , inscrutable carob tree , I did feel a faint touch of fear .
24 I looked back at the alley .
25 I looked back at the corner and he waved .
26 I looked back at the school buildings .
27 Then I looked back at the table .
28 I looked back at the rabbit , then got up and knelt over it .
29 I looked back at the silhouette of the house through a haze of sun : tall chimneys and mellow brickwork in the older part .
30 I looked back to the arrow on the tree , then crawled another foot .
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