Example sentences of "back [coord] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.

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1 No shaved from there back and then as it is at the moment in the front .
2 Small 's nephew stood behind the firing squad and trained a searchlight back and forth as we hared across the fields .
3 It was filled with rows and rows of towering bookcases that seemed to sway back and forth as they disappeared into the darkness at the top of the room .
4 He regarded the men beneath him impassively , his eyes flicking back and forth as they looked up at him .
5 He began to apply the cooling foliage to her skin , turning the leaves back and forth as they took on her body heat .
6 They sit him in the rocking-chair in front of the hearth , to rock himself back and forth as he muses out loud about the enslavement of man by natural technology .
7 The skin beneath his chin hung in thick folds that swayed back and forth as he walked .
8 She circumvented fat tourists in fancy dress , civic marshals in baggy overalls , then a personal camera drone , its head swivelling back and forth as it scanned the canal for its owner at home .
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