Example sentences of "[pron] he look [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But more affecting still is the first half of the record , in which he looks back with a wry , but far from dry , eye on his own childhood .
2 As I was pulling the institutional door of his office shut behind me he looked up from the reading matter he had taken up again and said , ‘ And Ian — ’
3 The three schoolmasters upon whom he looked back with gratitude tell something about the boy : ( 1 ) a clear-headed Anglo-Catholic priest with a rasp of a voice who taught classics , Henry Balmforth : ( 2 ) the librarian Burd , a true classical scholar , and the only master in the school said not to know the name of the captain of cricket : ( 3 ) a gentle teacher ( Hayward ) , more expert at moths and butterflies than adolescents .
4 She watched him turn to one of the inner doors , his head somehow lowered , and when he reached it he looked back with an aggressive jerk of his head .
5 If only I could he he looks back on his life and he knows the power that he has experienced .
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