Example sentences of "backwards and [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other noisy people who were very grey moved rapidly backwards and forwards on the end wall . |
| 2 | This can mean up to six or seven trips backwards and forwards on the same holes . |
| 3 | Cars also demonstrate whether imaginative play can develop or whether the child is showing repetitive and uncreative play pushing the car backwards and forwards on the same spot . |
| 4 | It was completely frozen , but for one leg that arced backwards and forwards on the floor of the cave , like the leg of a dying calf . |
| 5 | the corners of the Polychromos Pastels produced the finest lines ; rubbing them backwards and forwards on the leading edge gave the greatest intensity of colour . |
| 6 | In a fit of crazy violence she began to run one arm backwards and forwards on the rusty metal until it began to bleed . |
| 7 | She rocked backwards and forwards on the bench . |
| 8 | ‘ Backwards and forwards to the States , speaks at Noraid rallies . |
| 9 | She paced up and down ; she went backwards and forwards to the windows , stepping on to the little balcony where they sat together in the afternoon sun , peering down the street . |
| 10 | They do not want to waste their time going backwards and forwards to the general practitioner 's surgery . |
| 11 | The irregular echo of footsteps passed backwards and forwards along the corridor outside . |
| 12 | If the disc is subjected to an angular displacement and then released , the sample will twist backwards and forwards about the vertical axis . |
| 13 | Then soften the charcoal and copper shadows using a cotton bud ; start where the colour is deepest , and brush and roll it backwards and forwards onto the lighter areas . |
| 14 | ‘ Just drive round ! ’ he ordered , and the driver drove backwards and forwards through the streets of London . |
| 15 | Well he 's like the pig in the middle again , er they 've told him well unless you drive the waggon backwards and forwards through the gates , well you 're no good to us sort of down the road . |
| 16 | The horse dentist will smooth the sharpness away by using a metal rasp which is rubber backwards and forwards over the teeth . |
| 17 | She was walking backwards and forwards over the makeshift stage shaking sand on to the boards from a small bucket , trying to evoke the desert sands of Saudi Arabia . |
| 18 | THE Conservative Party juggernaut was last night rolling backwards and forwards across the person of Sir Anthony Meyer after he had virtually committed himself to standing against Mrs Thatcher when the annual leadership contest is formally declared open today . |
| 19 | Both hulls were flooded , the water driving backwards and forwards across the saloon deck as the waves lifted first one hull , then the other . |
| 20 | More deflector panels sweep the beam backwards and forwards across the screen to trace out the picture lines . |
| 21 | Having got used to a side view , the next stage is to let the model drift slowly backwards and forwards across the wind in front of you ( Fig. 5.2 ) . |
| 22 | One solution to this problem is to sweep the image backwards and forwards across the retina so that edges modulate the output of the DOG filter . |
| 23 | The third is that , in the real world , the eyes are moving all the time so that even cells that would behave transiently in electrophysiological studies in which the eyes are routinely immobilized , would generate a continuous output as the stimulus sweeps backwards and forwards across the receptive field . |
| 24 | From the study above them , however , came the sound of footsteps moving backwards and forwards across the floor . |
| 25 | I waved my light backwards and forwards across the window . |
| 26 | I find it 's dangerous to be driving your car backwards and forwards across the back door in n it ? |
| 27 | Morton remained on his feet , swaying backwards and forwards from the balls to the heels of his shoes . |
| 28 | The Cardiff depot will strengthen our presence in South Wales and will eliminate the need to drive service vehicles backwards and forwards from the Bristol branch to that area . |
| 29 | Gould 's accounts imply that he spent much of the latter part of his expedition , because of a shortage of water , doubling backwards and forwards from the Mount Lofty range to the Murray Scrubs ( later known as the Mallee ) , where most of the interesting birds were to be found : |
| 30 | For the next half-hour Roland worked haphazardly , moving backwards and forwards in the Vico , half-looking for Proserpina , half-reading Ash 's notes , which was not easy , since they were written in various languages , in Ash 's annotating hand , which was reduced to a minute near-printing , not immediately identifiable as the same as his more generous poetic or letter-writing hand . |