Example sentences of "[pron] looked back at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked back at the school buildings . |
| 2 | I looked back at the bed , at June rigid in ecstasis , her eyes blank and upturned . |
| 3 | I looked back at the alley . |
| 4 | I looked back at the silhouette of the house through a haze of sun : tall chimneys and mellow brickwork in the older part . |
| 5 | I looked back at the rabbit , then got up and knelt over it . |
| 6 | Then , as I looked back at the dark , inscrutable carob tree , I did feel a faint touch of fear . |
| 7 | I looked back at the corner and he waved . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Then I looked back at the table . |
| 11 | I looked back at the house as Adrian drove away . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She looked back at the shelter where theirs was the only car . |
| 14 | When she looked back at the road , the red saloon was coming towards her . |
| 15 | She looked back at the stepping-stones , over which the river was rushing noisily . |
| 16 | She looked back at the painting with redoubled surprise . |
| 17 | Then instinctively she looked back at the building , and upwards towards Luke 's room . |
| 18 | When she looked back at the window there was the face again ; but it was attempting now to smile . |
| 19 | She looked back at the man and said , ‘ Where is this ? ’ |
| 20 | And then she looked back at the bed and saw the naked longing in his eyes , and something that was better than desire and that was more enduring than passion broke within her , and she moved forward , and said , ‘ Oh , my dear love ’ |
| 21 | She looked back at the policeman . |
| 22 | She looked back at the waves and pulled hard and carefully with her oars . |
| 23 | She looked back at the huddle of low-roofed buildings . |
| 24 | She looked back at the reality of him , forcing him to look back at her and meet her eyes . |
| 25 | She looked back at the cupboard , wondering if she ought to give any other heart drugs . |
| 26 | As she walked out of the workshop , she looked back at the flat they had been painting . |
| 27 | She looked back at the Arab . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We looked back at the tournament leaders on the seventeenth . |
| 30 | They looked back at the corner of the church , for Adam was not with them . |