Example sentences of "he look back [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked back to the era ( pre-industrialism ) before the things we consider ‘ natural ’ — prisons , asylums , hospitals — had been devised , in order to trace the ‘ genealogy ’ of pseudosciences like penology , criminology , psychiatry and sexology . |
| 2 | He looked back to the road where yet more French cavalry had appeared , and he knew it could not be long before the first French eight-pounder cannon arrived . |
| 3 | He looked back to the Yalta conference as the beginning of a betrayal of European interests by the Superpowers and was determined to assert a new ‘ European ’ role in world affairs , which would also reduce East-West tensions . |
| 4 | He looked back to the letter , and went through it again — still thinking and frowning . |
| 5 | But already the noise was diminishing , the violence of the anger subsiding as rapidly as it had built up , and he looked back at the audience to see people taking their places again , Gerrard and the earphoned men in shirtsleeves moving quickly and purposefully among them , urging them into seats . |
| 6 | A movement caught his eye and he looked back at the man standing on the steps of the rear coach . |
| 7 | Then he looked back at the teacher . |
| 8 | Then he looked back at the T'ang , standing there , pouring a second bowl for his father . |
| 9 | He looked back at the ship . |
| 10 | Then he looked back at the hole in the ground . |
| 11 | He looked back at the car . |
| 12 | He looked back at the light coming from the observatory cupboard , now a good twenty feet away , and thought about going back ; this whole prank was becoming a bit much , really . |
| 13 | He looked back at the map . |
| 14 | Through the mists of agony and fear he looked back at the dragon . |
| 15 | Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke , he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time . |
| 16 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 17 | He was shadowed everywhere in Sheffield , and he looked back on the experience as his most annoying transfer hid — particularly as it turned out to be one of his rare failures . |
| 18 | He looked back on the last ten days , reflecting on the events which had brought him to where he now was . |
| 19 | Then he looked back along the ship . |
| 20 | He looked back down the corridor , then crouched and looked through the key-hole . |
| 21 | Tsu Ma went across and stood there , one foot resting lightly on the tiled lip of the well as he looked back across the valley towards the south . |
| 22 | He looked back from the road , and could still see her in her white dress , standing modestly apart from the dancers . |
| 23 | Later in life he looked back upon the married time of his professorship at Durham as an idyll ; the paradisal years of his life . |
| 24 | He looked back upon the month of May , and stood aghast at what he recalled , so far were these extremes from the whole habit of his mind . |