Example sentences of "[noun sg] back [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rounded a corner , passing three children kicking a football back and forth across the road . |
| 2 | When a message allowed unambiguous identification of the requested target , children directed their gaze back and forwards across the array relatively infrequently . |
| 3 | It seemed that the train would pull out leaving her and the hundreds of milling travellers still shoving each other back and forth across the dimly lit platform . |
| 4 | The builders then move these living tubes of glue back and forth across the leaf junction until the two edges are joined by a silken fabric . |
| 5 | Then it passes this living tube of glue back and forth across the junction of the two leaves until a white silken sheet has been created , linking them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We shuttle back and forth between the large department stores that anchor the mall . |
| 8 | Or does it merely shuttle back and forth like a ferry ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Tomorrow 's a bit awkward , ’ she says , twisting her shoe back and forth on the ground . |
| 11 | Without ceasing to play a wide beam of heat back and forth across the advancing hordes , Ace checked the power supply of her blaster . |