Example sentences of "looking back [prep] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she thought , looking back at that pewter sky and narrow saffron afterglow as the Aston Martin purred into life and shot away at speed : Yes , individuals do ! |
| 2 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 3 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Looking back on that moment , it had often occurred to Shiona that it had marked the path that their future relationship was to take . |
| 6 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Looking back on that episode , I often wonder . |
| 9 | Looking back upon that exit , I am reminded of a particularly nasty afternoon forty-two years ago , when as a young subaltern cowering in a ditch , the sole survivor of a shattered Churchill tank crawled from his steel tomb and offered me a cigarette . |