Example sentences of "look back [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw himself look back along the train and then remember the first premonition . |
| 2 | ‘ You may look back down the mountain . |
| 3 | Far away along the path we saw him turn and look back at the hound . |
| 4 | He said it abruptly , his body twisted round so that he could look back at the hotel . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , we can look back on the year with pride and feel confident that our achievements stand us in good stead for 1992 . |
| 6 | Thomas could now look back on the papers he had begun , or completed and sold in his first two terms , as ‘ vain stuff ’ but he continued to write verses , which were sent to Harry and Helen . |
| 7 | I believe that in 100 years people will look back on the middle of the twentieth century as a nightmare period when mankind suddenly discovered the means to destroy itself , and was seriously considering using this as a preferable alternative to reconciling differing political views . |
| 8 | It is a complacent researcher indeed who does not look back on the research findings and wish that some things had been done better . |
| 9 | AQUARIUS — IN TIME to come Aquarians will look back on the period between mid-1991 and the end of 1993 as a watershed . |
| 10 | In which case , the British public may look back on the era of scarcity as a golden age of broadcasting . |
| 11 | To define Rottweiler character , we must look back to the breed 's history . |
| 12 | Occasionally , we could look back to The Smiths . |
| 13 | In London or Dublin the girls would look back to the house for healing . |
| 14 | If he wants a depressing story , he should look back to the housing expenditure of the last Labour Government . |
| 15 | I could n't look at them ; nor could I look back into the room . |
| 16 | They drew the eye to One Tree Hill , now forested over , and from this clump , at Chested , he could look back over the top of Chiddingstone Castle to another clump at Mark Beech beyond . |
| 17 | Yet Iago suddenly wheeled his pony again , and made for the highest point of the ridge , where he could look back over the valley , and see as far as the scattered outer copses and the rim of the forest . |
| 18 | If you have given birth , can you look back over the process and recognize how it has changed you ? |
| 19 | He parted some ferns so we could look back across the Paddock to the changing-rooms where the next toy soldier had just launched himself towards the Orchard . |
| 20 | To confirm this we have to pause and look back from the road to Aubeterre as it climbs the eastern slope of the valley of the Tude , just as Pound must have paused in 1911 ; and then we see that , whereas the modern town of Chalais is in the river bottom , old Chalais , a manorial village grouped round the gate of the château , does indeed stand on the ridge behind , so that the tops of the tallest poplars by the river wave just below the walls of the château . |