Example sentences of "back and [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps most severe of all are tests for susceptibility to motion sickness : they will be blindfolded , and have to move their heads and upper parts of the body back and forth or up and down ; and they will be pushed back and forward on a track every five seconds for 20 minutes . |
| 2 | What I want to do is get to play in a band situation so I can sit back and solo like a horn player again , using the MIDI . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But no response came from the darkness , and after swaying precariously back and forth for a minute or two , his feet slipped on the twisting bamboo rods and he fell to his knees . |
| 6 | She twitched the hand-written parchment pages back and forth for a moment or two looking for them , then caught his amused glance . |
| 7 | Joseph found he could n't sit still and he rose to pace back and forth at a distance from the others . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There is not much sound , except perhaps the musical whirr and clack of a mowing machine being pushed back and forth over a neighbouring lawn , and the clink of cups and saucers and a soft footfall as tea is prepared indoors . ’ |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | There was about her something distant and mysterious , Cadfael thought , as if a part of her being was charmed away into some private and pleasant place , even while her blue eyes dwelt upon her husband and his friend with sharp intelligence , following the argument back and forth with a kind of indulgent and amused affection , appropriate to a matriarch watching her children . |
| 12 | Each jelly will sway back and forth in a characteristic time , or period , that depends predominantly on its height and consistency . |
| 13 | A typical building of 10 storeys will sway back and forth in a period of 1 second , giving it a natural frequency of 1 cycle per second or 1 hertz . |
| 14 | For many minutes , Ali , Asaad and Isaac plod back and forth in a chain through the snow . |
| 15 | Instead of staring blankly out at the world , or nervously striking at the fence , as some of the eagles did , he trekked back and forth in a figure of eight over an area that was only one tiny part of his caged area . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | On the Right Bank the fighting surged back and forth within a small area , well named the ‘ Deadly Quadrilateral ’ at the southerly approaches to Fort Douaumont . |
| 18 | Those of a pike have become elegant filmy sculls , rotating slowly back and forth from a joint within the body , so that the fish can compensate for the tiniest variation of current and hang above a rock as though it were suspended from an invisible wire . |
| 19 | She almost dropped the line in disgust , but managed to hold it and started to swing it back and forth like a skipping rope in wider and wider slow arcs . |
| 20 | The eyes shifted back and forth like a metronome . |
| 21 | Or does it merely shuttle back and forth like a ferry ? |
| 22 | Laverne trots back and forth like a dog that wo n't give up , outside an entrance the size of a tea-cup . |
| 23 | The baddies trundle back and forth like an expectant father and resurrect on returning to a screen , and you 've got this pathetic energy bar thingie which encourages you to ignore them anyway ! |
| 24 | There was an ugly scuffle , Finn slipping back and forth like an eel , a laughing eel , for he kept on laughing . |