Example sentences of "look back [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashton looks back to Petipa 's more formal style because it is suitable for Mendelssohn 's music . |
| 2 | At level weight today it will be a different story and the ball looks back in Katabatic 's court . |
| 3 | The routines play on that , looking back to Margi 's life in Kirkby : poverty , religion , sex and the dole queue are all part of the equation . |
| 4 | ‘ John ? ’ the woman said , looking back at Artemis 's father . |
| 5 | Omi looked steadily at Erika for a long moment , and looking back into Omi 's fine , hooded eyes , Erika sensed for the first time ever , not merely that Omi was an old woman who walked rather slowly , was glad of help in undressing , and who , on days when her arthritis was very bad , needed her meat cutting for her . |
| 6 | Looking back over Pearson 's historical review , it is hard to believe that Britain 's cities are any more perilous today than those of pre-industrial times , or when they were frequented by gangs of Garotters and Hooligans . |
| 7 | At a wall corner I stopped to look back at Thwaite 's collection of stone houses shimmering in the dale . |
| 8 | Vologsky increased his pace , momentarily , gaining a few feet so that he could look back at Kirov 's grim face . |
| 9 | These ‘ depths of feeling ’ again look back to Eliot 's 1920 ‘ canalizations of something again simple , terrible and unknown ’ , but now are linked directly to ‘ l'âme primitive ’ . |
| 10 | Those last words of the Buddha , which are also contrived as Reilly 's last words to Celia — ‘ Work out your salvation with diligence ’ — look back to Eliot 's 1914/ 15 essay discussing the supremely attainable good . |
| 11 | When Cecilia looked back to Tina 's childhood it was always that particular day when Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself that she remembered . |
| 12 | E. A. Litton , his able successor , looked back on Hill 's ‘ fine simplicity of character , and benevolence of spirit ’ . |
| 13 | When the maid had gone he looked back at Virginia 's woe-begone face , aware of something else which he had n't seen before . |