Example sentences of "[subord] i look back [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean if I look back over my career with American corporates where I 've bought advertising it actually runs into millions of pounds . |
| 2 | If I look back on the people who have led me very well in the past , it was those who were able to create and sustain just such a sense of challenge . |
| 3 | If I look back on that [ first year ] , that was one thing that really hurt me . |
| 4 | In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life . |
| 5 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 6 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 7 | When I looked back to the Mimosa there was no sign of him , but the door was open . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life . |
| 10 | When I look back over my own experience , I find these questions embarrassing . |
| 11 | Of course , when I look back at it all now , the thought terrifies me ! |
| 12 | When I look back at what I learnt in college I 'm disappointed to think that they did n't teach me more . |
| 13 | When I look back at my golden youth all I can remember is people trying to hang poor old Shallot . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When I look back at the photographs I think And even when it was long I had , there was one hairdresser there called Paul , whom I 'd go and see regularly . |
| 16 | When I look back on those days now , I think how perfectly harmless it all was by comparison with today 's pornography . |
| 17 | I 'm 28 now and reasonably content with life but , when I look back on my childhood , I ca n't remember ever being happy . |
| 18 | She said : ‘ When I look back on 1992 I know I did n't give 100 per cent . |
| 19 | ‘ When I look back on 1992 I know that I did n't give 100 per cent , ’ Capriati confessed . |
| 20 | Now when I look back on that part of my life , I want to make a film and call it The Loneliness of the Long Distance Latent Lesbian . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When I look back on it all , the fourth and last day has to be the most exciting and memorable . |
| 23 | When I look back on my marriage I ca n't believe what a fool I was to allow myself to stay in that situation . |
| 24 | It 's a very stiff exam I must admit , when I look back on it , and we all had a a day off to go to the at or the Grammar school , sit this exam er and since I never heard anything I 'm assuming I failed . |
| 25 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 26 | Then , as I looked back at the dark , inscrutable carob tree , I did feel a faint touch of fear . |
| 27 | As I look back over visits to schools in recent years , the impressions , the differences , the experiences come crowding in . |
| 28 | As I look back on what happened this morning and this evening , er er nothing I 've er suggests to me that any one sector should be discounted at present and I think er on the basis of what I 've heard at the moment , erm all the sectors that er that we 've discussed today , er are still in the frame . |
| 29 | As I look back to my inner training in prayer , I see an early stage when it consisted of asking God 's blessing on myself and those I loved , then through a stage of mental meditation , and finally a merging into contemplation , which did not need words , but a silent awareness of the presence of God , which sometimes continued for a quarter of an hour or more . |