Example sentences of "i look back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look back at the old woman , marvelling at Enid and Philip for finding her interesting enough to talk about . |
| 2 | I look back at the door . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And I look back to the Alliance days and Dr Owen 's flirtation with elements of Flatcher of Flatcherism , pardon me . |
| 9 | I look back to the works . |
| 10 | When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life . |
| 11 | I could n't look at them ; nor could I look back into the room . |
| 12 | I looked back into the cupboard . |
| 13 | I looked back down the hill hoping a vehicle would be coming . |
| 14 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 15 | Wistfully , I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well . |
| 16 | I looked back at the house as Adrian drove away . |
| 17 | I glanced at her , trying to hide my embarrassment with a swift and flippant response , but I could think of nothing to say and so I looked back at the binnacle , then up to the long moon-burnished sea ahead . |
| 18 | As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film . |
| 19 | I looked back at the bed , at June rigid in ecstasis , her eyes blank and upturned . |
| 20 | I looked back at the first . |
| 21 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 22 | Then , as I looked back at the dark , inscrutable carob tree , I did feel a faint touch of fear . |
| 23 | I looked back at the alley . |
| 24 | I looked back at the corner and he waved . |
| 25 | I looked back at the school buildings . |
| 26 | Then I looked back at the table . |
| 27 | I looked back at the rabbit , then got up and knelt over it . |
| 28 | I looked back at the silhouette of the house through a haze of sun : tall chimneys and mellow brickwork in the older part . |
| 29 | I looked back to the arrow on the tree , then crawled another foot . |
| 30 | When I looked back to the Mimosa there was no sign of him , but the door was open . |