Example sentences of "back and [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celia just looked at him , running her tongue back and forward through that chip in her teeth , then she looked at Jed . |
| 2 | The linear trim position indicator runs immediately behind it a red pointer moving back and forward to markings numbered either side of a central zero . |
| 3 | But the , the motor car was used firstly for taking people back and forward to the station . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Then I sort of hold her hands tight while she rocks back and forward on the bed . |
| 6 | farther east , Russian campaigns against the Buryats around the southern end of Lake Baikal went on from the 1630s to the 1680s , causing great turmoil as some Buryat and Mongol tribes withdrew to Mongolia , or were buffeted back and forward between the two aggressive empires . |
| 7 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |
| 8 | Evans sobbed drily , gulping in great mouthfuls of air , and rocked back and forward against the mantelpiece which was lined with Christmas cards . |
| 9 | Then I realized that almost everyone in what I had once regarded as my own day was probably in a similar predicament , that the shattering effects of the war had probably distributed most of 2020 back and forward throughout history ! |
| 10 | ‘ Great , ’ I say , rocking back and forward in my seat . |
| 11 | ‘ I have just changed jobs and have trouble enough arranging time off to fly back and forward from Scotland . |
| 12 | But after two weeks of going back and fro to the barn they finally decided for some unknown reason that they had had enough . |
| 13 | Well he said go back and tomorrow at least and |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Then Saturday morning she 'd load up again and start off round down at the round Mill Corner along the Piste for the and back and then across to the where you come from Ely and all those houses along there and she 'd get home about one o'clock from there . |
| 16 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 17 | Albert going past , he 's back and forwards to the garden . |
| 18 | He 's declaring that he 's using a taxi and it costs him a hundred and sixty pound a month , every day back and forwards to work , well everyone knows that 's a lie cos she takes him to work |
| 19 | When he returned the stranger was rocking back and forwards on his chair , his heels on the edge of the table . |
| 20 | The Cluthas could carry 360 passengers , and in the 60 years from the turn of the century the entire population of Glasgow must have moved back and forwards across the Clyde annually without ever getting its collective feet wet . |
| 21 | When a message allowed unambiguous identification of the requested target , children directed their gaze back and forwards across the array relatively infrequently . |
| 22 | Already there were people there , silhouettes that wandered back and forwards in the firelight . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Cars purr back and forth along the expressways , bearing the Bernsteins to dinner with the Chases , the Chases to the Waylands , the Waylands for a Christmas morning drink with the Bakers . |
| 26 | The second stage is a kind of broadside display ; it is called the ‘ parallel walk ’ , and in it the two males walk back and forth along side each other . |
| 27 | Warmed by Coleman 's sympathy , El-Jorr made a point of introducing him to all the CIs and ‘ mules ’ who arrived at Eurame on their way back and forth along the pipeline , including him in the conversation as they brewed up endless cups of Lebanese coffee . |
| 28 | Natro shops thronged the uniformly cobbled streets , where people whizzed back and forth on bicycles or skates — often their only form of exercise . |
| 29 | He paced back and forth on the tarmac , occasionally stopping to talk to his men . |
| 30 | The man 's hair mass rocks back and forth on his rigidly stationary head like a wildly excited toupee and is only matched for unusual activity by his furiously trembling eyebrows and the cracked black toe-caps of his shoes moving up an down like wasps ' abdomens about to insert their stings . |