ESL LEVEL: ADVANCED
Remember (a period of time, sequence of events); reminisce
She looked back on her achievements with pride.
Look back on + noun phrase (NP)
(a phrase whose head is a noun or a pronoun, sometimes accompanied by modifiers):
When I look back on my university days...
...on the neighborhood where I grew up...
OTHER PREPOSITIONS WITH Look Back
Look back at + noun.
...a look back at the Roaring Twenties. (A time)... last year's sales figures...(a thing in the past)
Look back in + noun used to express an emotion
This will not work for every case. Check in you dictionary to find out the correct collocation.
Look back in anger, in shame.
Look back + with
Some adjectives, for example those ending in -ing, will be seen in noun form:
Look back with amusement (not amusing)
with is used in other cases as well:
Look back with laughter, with pride
Look back with gratitude, with remorse
In the negative :She launched her own company in 2003 and has never looked back.
This means that she has never again thought about what she was doing before she started her company.
Look Back In Anger is the title of a play, by John Osborne.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Back_in_AngerMoby wrote a song called Look Back In
The exact meaning of the title is open to interpretation....
