Example sentences of "[verb] look back [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he stopped to look back along the road , he saw two cars draw up in front of his home , one after the other . |
| 2 | The idea of going out in the garden to sit looking back towards the house was popular , as was the line of the path , laid in stock bricks in a colour best described as crushed strawberry . |
| 3 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 4 | ‘ I came to ask you to supper , ’ she babbled looking back into the drawing room . |
| 5 | The leaves on the thorn trees were almost open , and when we turned to look back at the distance we 'd climbed , there were clusters of vivid green that trailed down the hillside and encompassed the village like waterweed . |
| 6 | All turned to look back at the door as the footsteps approached on the flagstones . |
| 7 | He covered seventy yards to gain the partial cover of the shrubbery , flung himself amongst the undergrowth , and turned to look back at the chateau . |
| 8 | They turned to look back at the emptiness they had crossed . |
| 9 | Involuntarily Wycliffe turned to look back at the house on stilts , but it was hidden by a bulge in the slope of the hill … |
| 10 | If you like to look back at the cathedral office in an hour , I 'll see it 's ready for you . |
| 11 | ‘ But I ca n't resist looking back at the history of rock and having this addiction to the great pop music that 's been made , whether it 's T-Rex or Blondie . |
| 12 | Shelley opened the door of the white-painted villa , and paused to look back across the vista of other villas and apartments , arranged like a real village around little shops , cafés and swimming-pools . |
| 13 | He turned and stood looking back at the house . |