Example sentences of "[art] [noun] look back [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 You could see the prisoners looking back at the two bodies in the centre of the carnage ; there was a lot of blood now , spreading in pools .
3 The present looks back at some great figure of an earlier century and wonders , Was he on our side ?
4 When they reached the destination the driver looks back in horror and says the poodle has disgraced itself .
5 Though lacking its crackling intensity , The Rock looks back towards Sweeney Agonistes and Eliot 's earlier work .
6 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 ’ .
7 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 .
8 Sheila had not moved from the settee , and Morse stood in the doorway looking back at her : ‘ Do n't you know ? ’
9 Whitlock paused in the doorway to look back at Rachel .
10 He squatted down in the straw looking at the foal , and the foal looked back at him , indignant , bright-eyed , quivering with life .
11 The child looked back at him .
12 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 . ’
13 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 .
14 The frog in the lead looked back at his dwindling group .
15 The Duke looked back at the Prussian message .
16 At level weight today it will be a different story and the ball looks back in Katabatic 's court .
17 Whereas the left might base itself on the thoughts of Karl Marx , the libertarians look back to Adam Smith and an extreme ideology of laissez-faire capitalism .
18 Somehow , after half an hour , I was at the top looking back at the sign which warned ‘ Rapide Descente 300 metres ’ .
19 He took them two at a time , pausing at the top to look back across the square .
20 ‘ We leave winter behind us , it seems , ’ Tagan said , turning in the saddle to look back at the still-white hills .
21 Paul , in these verses , allows himself the chance to look back with his readers , and see the results of twenty years of Christian service .
22 The opportunity to go away from the school and work in a different atmosphere and with people who might have a different perspective on the management of organizations would give me the chance to look back into the school more objectively and question some of the assumptions I had grown to accept .
23 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 .
24 The video looks back on the occupation of Latin America by Europeans and draws attention to the present situation of the millions of people throughout the continent who are suffering poverty and disease .
25 BBC2 's Frost In The Air looks back over his 30-year career .
26 Today , the Mirror looks back to the first tragic deaths in one of the world 's longest and more bitter conflicts .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 The Poles looked back to two periods of greatness — the kingdom of the Piasts , which disintegrated in the twelfth century , and that of the Jagiellonians under whose rule Poland 's frontiers were extended from the Baltic to the Black Sea .
30 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 .
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