Example sentences of "[conj] when i look back " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Hey , " somebody shouted , and when I looked back , it was the tenant of the flat I 'd just knocked at . |
| 2 | For a moment I looked away , and when I looked back he was gone . |
| 3 | He was a ‘ chest case ’ for years and when I look back at the photographs of him he 's always trying to look normal but actually his face is pained from trying to breathe . |
| 4 | I 'd passed that fella on the road an' when I looked back she was talking to him ; then when I turned the cart into the alley the next minute , she was flying past , almost throwing the child at me . |
| 5 | Though the landscape was flat , it seemed , both visually and from the effort it was taking to move the wheelbarrow , that I was continually walking up a hill , but when I looked back , it was as if I had just walked down one . |
| 6 | But when I look back , I think it 's this path that 's been ploughed for me . |
| 7 | I wrote a lot about gay politics during the seventies , including a book on it , but when I look back on it , I do n't actually talk about sex at all . |
| 8 | But when I look back when I think about it it probably ke kept us out of mischief you know . |
| 9 | For when I look back over his career , I can see with hindsight that he must have striven throughout his years somehow to become that butler of his story . |