Example sentences of "look back on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of her misadventure , Diana looks back on that trip to Val Claret as one of the most enjoyable and carefree holidays of her life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Diana now looks back on those days at Coleherne Court as the happiest time of her life . |
| 4 | MARY BAILEY looks back on seven years as the cichlid-keeper 's agony aunt . |
| 5 | Looking back on that period , Mr Li lamented , ‘ Some sectors of the economy were so decentralised that the state 's ability to exercise macro-control was weakened . ’ |
| 6 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 7 | Looking back on that episode , I often wonder . |
| 8 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Looking back on that then , you must have lost a great number of colleagues and workmates that it must give you sort of mixed feelings looking back on it ? |
| 11 | Looking back on that moment now , she felt it tremble before her , round and perfect as an overfull drip , and she caught her breath at the thought of its transitoriness , its shimmering beauty , and suddenly whispered to herself , ‘ I am happy , ’ as if she feared it might not last forever . |
| 12 | Looking back on that moment , it had often occurred to Shiona that it had marked the path that their future relationship was to take . |
| 13 | No one looking back on 1981 would claim that there was consensus on the correct economic policy either in the Conservative Party or outside . |
| 14 | Looking back on all this , is one to judge him as having been a success or a failure ? |
| 15 | Now Gloucester rugby fans wo n't be looking back on this season for any misty eyed memories … |
| 16 | Looking back on these years , he remembered lying in the sun , his face covered with a straw hat : ‘ Other boys were always talking of when they would be men ; he did not want at all to be a man , or to possess things , but to remain as he was , in the same spot , and to know no more people than he already knew . ’ |
| 17 | Looking back on these campaigns at the end of her life , she defined the law as the chief agency for enacting God 's work and for abolishing the double-standard , which menaced the young and ultimately contributed to the disintegration of the state . |
| 18 | Looking back on those years between the two wars , and knowing Sam as I did , I am convinced that , had my parents landed in America , as intended , then he would have been in the prohibition racket , without any doubts . |
| 19 | First of all , looking back on those harrowing times of the sixth of July , what do you remember about the incident Erlend ? |
| 20 | This was be this was er er there was a ceremonial parade when we stood down but this was er erm something that like that the town in recognition of the Home Guard Cos when the Home Guard was stood down it was a national er a national standing down so everybody all over the country er everybody in the country there 'd be a er a parade of some sort but this was for the Walsall detachment of the South Staffs Home Guard that was invited to , to the town hall for er a reception , it was quite it stood in re er I still can remember about it quite quite something to look back on that was really . |
| 21 | In his autobiography , Citrine himself was to look back on this second career , taken up at the age of sixty , as the happiest time of his life , when his creativity and other faculties were exercised to the full . |
| 22 | 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 ) : |
| 23 | ‘ It is miserable for us to look back on these things . |
| 24 | All in all , we will be able to look back on 1990 as a year of solid achievement and forward to 1991 with confidence . |
| 25 | And in 1944 when Cole wrote his book as part of the Movement 's centenary tribute to the Rochdale Pioneers , when Consumers ' Co-operation could still look back on many decades of unbroken success , it would have been as natural for him to suppose that the Pioneers had in this respect been mistaken and that their mistake stood in need of explanation . |
| 26 | ‘ I can look back on many significant achievements by the staff . |
| 27 | Of his time at Darlington , he says : ‘ I can look back on many significant achievement by the staff . |
| 28 | The reason for that is that they 're in a very good position in the market now , they , they can negotiate very good deals on houses they 're buying , there 's a very good choice of properties available , people by the mid nineteen nineties will look back on nineteen ninety as probably the time to have bought , when house prices were at their cheapest . |
| 29 | Irwin had a marvellous year last time and will be keen to win the Regal as will Derek Young , another rider who could look back on 1992 with a great deal of satisfaction . |
| 30 | Sun-tanned , fit and contented , we could look back on fourteen days of carefree cruising ; four hundred miles through some of the finest scenery in the British Isles with the freedom of the hills for good measure . |