Example sentences of "[v-ing] back and [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other ideas current in London include the sharing of departments between London and New York ( one team jetting back and forth across the Atlantic to catalogue sales ) and the dismantling of specialist departments in favour of more all-round teams of valuers . |
| 2 | Again , if you find you arc always walking back and forth to a larder or pantry , or to shelves at the other end of the kitchen , a storage trolley or cart which you could wheel up when necessary should help . |
| 3 | They all cackle with pleasure at the absurdity of it ; then , as soon as Harry has gone back into his room , they all mock him , walking back and forth about the room holding imaginary braces and letter , and talking with a German accent . |
| 4 | Second , there was a local Indonesian vessel , the Gouveneur-Generaal Loudon , which was plying back and forth across the Straits between Anjer in Java and Telok Betong in Sumatra . |
| 5 | Most recently , the MX television , which sits unobtrusively on the floor tilting back and forth behind a smoked-glass screen , appeared outlandish at first but was quickly copied by the big manufacturers . |
| 6 | But after two weeks of going back and fro to the barn they finally decided for some unknown reason that they had had enough . |
| 7 | I was trying to communicate between David and Tony , trying to get them to talk to each other , and as a result was going back and forth between the two of them which was a very frustrating experience , added to which I was tired from being on the road and I was very unhappy . |
| 8 | He had been drifting back and forth between the two ever since . |
| 9 | They were busy packing a basket with the things that Sigarup would need , talking quietly , moving back and forth between the two rooms : collecting blankets , cooking pots , a bag of wheat flour , salt and chilli , the cotton tarpaulin that they stretched across upright sticks to make a tent . |
| 10 | The use of And yet in the third paragraph , for instance , gives the impression that the writer is thinking aloud , or perhaps just moving back and forth along the same line of argument — as one would do in chatting to a friend — rather than firmly wrapping up one stage in the argument before moving on to the next as is the case in the German text . |
| 11 | This involved a 65mm camera that could do stop-motion by leaving the shutter open for an extended time and also refocus automatically while moving back and forth on a track as well as up and down , if necessary . |
| 12 | There at last were the now familiar figures moving back and forth across the sand . |
| 13 | Moreover , those planning a curriculum may find that they proceed not in a linear fashion , but by moving back and forth among the various headings , since these affect one another . |
| 14 | It is an inevitable part of Commons life to have insults flying back and forth across the Chamber floor . |
| 15 | She was darting back and forth across the clutter on the floor , tweaking cords and muttering beneath her breath . |
| 16 | Sometimes he would secretly watch other eagles whose territory he had trespassed over , to learn from them the art of quartering back and forth over an area to find prey and flush it out |
| 17 | Donna took a step closer , her gaze travelling back and forth over the gilt-framed painting . |
| 18 | He accompanied the earl on his military mission to the Low Countries in 1600–1 , travelling back and forth across the Channel as his confidential messenger . |
| 19 | The thought of returning to another sparse lodging in a back-street of London , to the endless trudging back and forth to the Register Office , to the days of scant food and less warmth , filled her with dread . |
| 20 | But for all the research , Polar Star is unsure of itself , tacking back and forth between a leisurely exposition of this frozen world and the more exacting pace of the whodunnit , with occasional bobs towards the spy story . |
| 21 | Isabel could only watch helplessly as Lady Eleanor was set to scurrying back and forth between the solar and the Queen 's wardrobe . |
| 22 | There was an ugly scuffle , Finn slipping back and forth like an eel , a laughing eel , for he kept on laughing . |
| 23 | Your car will need to be equipped with a proper dog guard if at all possible , to prevent the dog from jumping back and forth across the seats . |
| 24 | He stood by the door , listening for movement , and again heard the slow footsteps , pacing back and forth over the carpet . |
| 25 | The dogs , too , were focused on the water , poised on the edge of the bank , barking and snarling , or pacing back and forth between the men 's legs , whining with impatience . |
| 26 | The bus took off for downtown Jo'burg , followed by our small convoy of about three cars , though in the ensuing hour , every reporter in FI was shuttling back and forth between the drivers ' hotel and the circuit , where the angry bosses and the choleric Jean-Marie Balestre , president of FISA , met in angry conclave . |
| 27 | This shuttling back and forth between the personae could only be done so adroitly by a poet exceptionally sensitive to the status and function of pronouns . |
| 28 | Joe sat on the wooden kitchen chair and watched Mrs Alice Carver flitting back and forth from the stove to the table , talking all the while . |
| 29 | He just considering whether to shorten sail when the foresheet , which had been under considerable strain and was rubbing back and forth against the port gunwale , parted . |
| 30 | Below them were moored feluccas with their long thin yards curving back and up from the masts in the same immaculate line . |