Example sentences of "look [adv prt] on [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's this thought that remains uppermost in the mind of coach Ian Birtwell as he looks back on those sixteen memorable days in October when Canada came charging so boldly from the ranks of the ‘ possibles ’ to achieve quarter-final status . |
| 2 | She had told Great-gran and now she stood looking down on this eighty-two year old woman who was dressed as a woman of forty might have been , in a pale blue cotton dress , square-necked , which showed surprisingly firm flesh for one her age , short-sleeved , which in this case exposed her real age by the sagging flesh of the underarm . |
| 3 | And er , but I felt and I feel looking back on that particular er decade between nineteen sixty and nineteen seventy , that the work which the shop steward 's movement did er even in a preliminary way , prior to the Donovan Report coming out , was based on reason and fair play . |
| 4 | Looking back on all this , is one to judge him as having been a success or a failure ? |
| 5 | First of all , looking back on those harrowing times of the sixth of July , what do you remember about the incident Erlend ? |
| 6 | Betty Friedan , who was to give the whole phenomenon of fulfilment-through-motherhood a name — The Feminine Mystique — also made a revealing admission when she came to look back on those unliberated years in a later book ( It Changed My Life ) : |
| 7 | ‘ I can look back on many significant achievements by the staff . |
| 8 | Of his time at Darlington , he says : ‘ I can look back on many significant achievement by the staff . |
| 9 | Future historians may one day look back on this short period as a golden guilt-free age for parents ! |
| 10 | He has been on the losing side in Cup semi-finals on five occasions , and if he finally makes it to Wembley this year he may look back on this bitter struggle as the crucial victory along the way . |