Example sentences of "back and [adv] in [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If the maul is stationary but the ball is being moved back and out in the maul then the referee will allow time for the ball to emerge .
2 Already there were people there , silhouettes that wandered back and forwards in the firelight .
3 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 .
4 For many minutes , Ali , Asaad and Isaac plod back and forth in a chain through the snow .
5 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 .
6 The line weaves back and forth in the water , in sinister sway .
7 All this time Fleury gazed speechless and appalled as the sepoy sped back and forth in the clearing like a trout in a restaurant tank .
8 Swings also moved gently back and forth in the breeze , as if rocked by some unseen hand .
9 When I interviewed him formally , he paced back and forth in the confines of his conference room on Old Compton Street like a trapped animal .
10 We had wagers on how many times the horse 's prick bounced back and forth in the time it took to cross the Parade .
11 So that most times she wakes first and creeps back and forth in the dark .
12 A large spider 's web strung between the base of the sign and the pole bellied back and forth in the wind , the spider itself clinging fast to it .
13 More bullets spattered the front of the cottage , drilling lines back and forth in the stonework .
14 For several weeks he scurried back and forth in the corridors of power , trying to patch together an arrangement for co-operation with the Tory dissidents .
15 If Rainbow were left to her own devices , she would undoubtedly now choose to remove herself from the taxi altogether , and pace back and forth in the lay-by , enjoying the comparative peace of the rain and the fumes and the roar of the juggernauts until she could get the show back on the road once more .
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