Example sentences of "looked back [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cardiff looked back over to the reception windows at Frye 's silhouette . |
| 2 | Arthur looked back grimly . |
| 3 | I wonder if he 's looked in the minutes of the council er for this time twelve months ago er when we proposed a very similar amendment to the one that 's on the board there , the figures are reduced er but certainly lots of the areas are actually there and in fact if he looked back even further in the minutes he 'll see that it bears a striking resemblance to what we actually proposed on the fourteenth of February nineteen ninety one . |
| 4 | They looked back again . |
| 5 | Then he looked back again at the blinding quayside . |
| 6 | Ant Everard put down his paper , looked at his daughter , his face a supplication of mercy from her ; he looked back again at Miranda , and his concern turned into a frown , and he came visibly to a decision . |
| 7 | When I looked back again , just before the trees hid the house , he had disappeared . |
| 8 | I looked back again and again at the silent pair under the tree . |
| 9 | But when Guy urged Chalon into the shallow water of the ford , she looked back again , as though compelled , to the bodies behind them . |
| 10 | He looked back briefly and saw Pion watching him . |
| 11 | She looked back briefly at the house behind her , low and grey with its long eighteenth-century windows and its sheltering clumps of trees , then she picked up her skirts and began to run up the slope towards the sea . |
| 12 | Trent looked back straight into the bows of the patrol boat . |
| 13 | When he looked back later in life he did not think that this dark night was caused by what happened on the road at Godmanchester . |
| 14 | Mr Reynolds looked back also to an era of ‘ bureaucratic and commercial indifference which was perhaps understandable in the light of history but nevertheless misguided ’ and which resulted in even more destruction than was caused by the Troubles , such as of Coole Park ( the inspiration for two of Yeats 's most famous poems ) and of Bowenscourt in the 1960s , as well as much of Dublin 's eighteenth-century architecture . |
| 15 | I looked back up the wall in wonder and doubt . |
| 16 | At the surface of the milky-looking gas he paused , and looked back up at the three masked faces , conscious all the while of the increasing rhythm of his breathing . |
| 17 | Cowley looked back up at the rising heights of St Paul 's . |
| 18 | He looked back up at her and smiled . |
| 19 | Jasper looked back up the empty moving stair . |
| 20 | Staring down at the girl , Pascoe saw in her the Martha he had known as a lad — the Martha he had loved and lost ; and while he stared , she opened her eyes and looked back up at him from the stinking bed of straw , and for a moment he felt a little stirring of fear . |
| 21 | Ben looked back up the slope towards the cottage . |
| 22 | Shepherd turned and looked back up the slope . |
| 23 | She laughed uneasily , shocked , then looked back up at him . |
| 24 | She turned and looked back up the slope towards the cottage . |
| 25 | Li Yuan laughed awkwardly then turned and looked back up the path . |
| 26 | Spatz looked aside , then looked back up at the Marshal , choosing his words carefully . |
| 27 | I looked back up at Conchis 's face ; and knew I was right . |
| 28 | Lever looked back up at the screen , watching the young T'ang step down into the darkness . |
| 29 | Isabel looked back up the slight incline to the castle . |
| 30 | The parks and main avenue were awash with trees in full blossom , and when she looked back up towards the farm she could see patches of cloudy pink where the apple trees were in bloom . |