Example sentences of "look back [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Keys of Marinus ’ is the one story for Doctor Who Cusick looks back on with a shudder . |
| 2 | Like most of his music , it looks back fondly to a golden age , but it does so creatively and with vitality . |
| 3 | In this programme , Stanley , at the age of 88 , looks back fondly to a time when he was , unquestionably , Champion of the World . |
| 4 | While a person engaged in a particular event can rarely see the whole set of circumstances in clear perspective he can record the minutiae of a situation which might well be lost when the position is looked back on at a later date . |
| 5 | I think that in years to come they are bound to be looked back on as an aberration . |
| 6 | The important thing , as John Wain was to put it years later in ‘ The Vanishing Critic ’ , looking back wonderingly over a good quarter-century at his own vanished youth , was ‘ to respond to life with one 's emotional priorities in the right order . ’ |
| 7 | Had we a powerful industrial policy in the nineteen eighties , would we be looking back now at a crisis of industrial investment in the nineteen nineties ? |
| 8 | Mr Reynolds looked back also to an era of ‘ bureaucratic and commercial indifference which was perhaps understandable in the light of history but nevertheless misguided ’ and which resulted in even more destruction than was caused by the Troubles , such as of Coole Park ( the inspiration for two of Yeats 's most famous poems ) and of Bowenscourt in the 1960s , as well as much of Dublin 's eighteenth-century architecture . |
| 9 | Charlotte turned , before getting into the car , and looked back once in a long , sweeping survey of the twilit bowl of turf and stone . |