Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] looked back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Staggering to her feet she looked back towards the wounded man ; he had slumped to the floor , and was trying to push himself back to a kneeling position . |
| 3 | That evening we looked back on the day with our fellow guests whose interests — from birdwatching to archaeology , cave-exploring to gliding — reflected the enormous variety of activities catered for across the region . |
| 4 | That evening we looked back on the day with our fellow guests whose interests — from birdwatching to archaeology , cave-exploring to gliding — reflected the enormous variety of activities catered for across the region . |
| 5 | Last night we looked back at the history of the MG , which appeared to have died a death when the factory at Abingdon closed in 1981 . |
| 6 | Later in life he looked back upon the married time of his professorship at Durham as an idyll ; the paradisal years of his life . |