Example sentences of "look back [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first arrived here , shortly after Margaret Thatcher arrived in Downing Street , both the country and the firm spent all their time looking back to past glories . |
| 2 | Looking back at regular intervals to see if the stranger was following , eventually they reached the access to the street but the guide was astonished to find the man had vanished into thin air . |
| 3 | This was predictable , though , looking back at historical evidence relating to a Friday Christmas . |
| 4 | Looking back over previous years , Mr Stevens found that the more poor countries produce , the less they earn . |
| 5 | In 1965 , in the Brezhnev era to which many old-style Communists were to look back with fond nostalgia , an Englishman observing the May Day festival on Red Square wrote : ‘ The tourists , even the Americans , are delighted : they clap , cheer , photograph , and at the end simply gasp , as if they have just seen the greatest show on earth … |
| 6 | The general message was not to look back at past crimes but forward to a more worthwhile place in society . |
| 7 | He could always look back on bad things . |
| 8 | 1992 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure . |
| 9 | On a gentler note , two richly evocative novels which look back to different eras . |
| 10 | Psychologists Aruna Mahtani and Afreen Huq look back with mixed feelings on their special project for Bangladeshi women in Britain . |
| 11 | I look back with great thankfulness to God and deep affection to Holy Cross students for what was a most happy and satisfying central period of my life . |
| 12 | Nowadays , when we look back at old photographs and films of the 1950s rock and roll craze , and the Teddy Boys , it is easy to wonder what all the fuss was about . |
| 13 | A look back at programmed learning shows how the concept began to arise . |
| 14 | More generally , they looked back to Carolingian times in their liturgical practice . |
| 15 | For framework knitters in the hosiery manufacture of the east Midlands , their historian William Felkin described a golden age lasting from 1755 to 1785 , but a more recent authority has suggested that although knitters by the time of Luddism 's outbreak in 1811 looked back to pre-war wages of 10 to 12s ( 50-60p ) for plain work and up to 30s ( £1.50 ) for skilled , they were generally prosperous down to 1809 . |