Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] back [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph found he could n't sit still and he rose to pace back and forth at a distance from the others . |
| 2 | Seemed to go back and forth between the reservation and the city for a while looking for the right place to be . |
| 3 | In the afternoons there was little to see other than the skateboarders who came to clatter back and forth in the bowl-shaped space under the Festival Hall , making a sound that was somewhere between a roller derby and a kendo match ; but as evening came on , bags and boxes would start to appear in the best-lighted spots under the concrete . |
| 4 | Other places had half shut up , which meant trecking back and forth across bridges to get cups of luke warm coffee . |
| 5 | His thumb continued to stroke back and forth over her cheek as he regarded her sombrely . |
| 6 | And on one day of hard frost , Paul and Molly had slid back and forth across the shining ice , screaming with delight , watched by a bold robin who sat fearlessly nearby on a low bare branch preening the pale grey feathers that edged the bronze of his breast . |
| 7 | Well he said go back and tomorrow at least and |