Example sentences of "back [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With her generosity of spirit , she always forgave my sliding back and forth across the East-West or male-female barriers . |
| 2 | The shadows from the candlelight darted back and forth across the shallow whitewashed dome . |
| 3 | A flashlight searched back and forth across the sleeping bodies of the coolies as the hulking figure of Duclos advanced down the barrack in a dripping black rain cape . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Drawn by light-stepping ponies , lowing bullocks , sweating , yellow-skinned men or smoking petrol and steam engines , unending processions of carriages , carts , rickshaws , trams , trains , cars , and motor buses were plying urgently back and forth across the drab plain of treeless rice fields , hurrying to complete their business before the heat of noon drove their passengers to seek shelter and shade . |
| 6 | Without ceasing to play a wide beam of heat back and forth across the advancing hordes , Ace checked the power supply of her blaster . |
| 7 | She follows me into the room and plants herself square in the middle of one of the sofas , leaving me to pace back and forth across the thick carpet while I deliver my diatribe . |
| 8 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 9 | Every day for the last month we 've been totting the Vortec back and forth to the local office , where it has been used to run an Alpha Four Database . |
| 10 | Hauser paced slowly back and forth at the far end behind his empty chair as he spoke . |
| 11 | But for all the research , Polar Star is unsure of itself , tacking back and forth between a leisurely exposition of this frozen world and the more exacting pace of the whodunnit , with occasional bobs towards the spy story . |
| 12 | To give even a simple account of this sequence demands chapters that travel back and forth between the various territories that Charles conquered and ruled . |
| 13 | Suspicions bubble furiously , contacts drop like ninepins , Redford is bashed on the head a few times , the dreaded box is nicked back and forth between the Good and the Bad like a gunpoint game of Pass The Parcel and Redford 's erstwhile girlfriend Liz ( Mary McDonnell ) ends up offering refuge to the jittery team and their mountains of equipment . |
| 14 | Isabel could only watch helplessly as Lady Eleanor was set to scurrying back and forth between the solar and the Queen 's wardrobe . |
| 15 | We shuttle back and forth between the large department stores that anchor the mall . |
| 16 | There is not much sound , except perhaps the musical whirr and clack of a mowing machine being pushed back and forth over a neighbouring lawn , and the clink of cups and saucers and a soft footfall as tea is prepared indoors . ’ |
| 17 | And all the time I was talking I rolled my swabs back and forth over the frozen Thames . |
| 18 | He lowered himself on to her breasts and she moaned as he held himself up on his elbows and barely allowed himself to touch her , his hard chest sliding lightly back and forth over the aching tenderness of her bosom . |
| 19 | Donna took a step closer , her gaze travelling back and forth over the gilt-framed painting . |
| 20 | As the plants moved in the breeze , the sunlight dappled and speckled back and forth over the brown soil , the white pebbles and weeds . |
| 21 | Written as a journalistic offering without benefit of references or even a bibliography , it still manages to inform the reader on many of the internal features of Saddam Hussein 's rise to power , though it has an infuriating tendency to dart back and forth over the past 30 years , too much like a 1960s film trying to be clever . |
| 22 | Moreover , those planning a curriculum may find that they proceed not in a linear fashion , but by moving back and forth among the various headings , since these affect one another . |
| 23 | He shrank back fearfully as the horns scythed back and forth among the fragile trees , only a foot or so from his vulnerable body . |
| 24 | Each jelly will sway back and forth in a characteristic time , or period , that depends predominantly on its height and consistency . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Most recently , the MX television , which sits unobtrusively on the floor tilting back and forth behind a smoked-glass screen , appeared outlandish at first but was quickly copied by the big manufacturers . |
| 27 | On the Right Bank the fighting surged back and forth within a small area , well named the ‘ Deadly Quadrilateral ’ at the southerly approaches to Fort Douaumont . |
| 28 | Gardner 's been out there for more than a decade , has been back and forth from the Qualifying School three times , has yet to win a tournament , and in a good year can make $150,000 . |
| 29 | The baddies trundle back and forth like an expectant father and resurrect on returning to a screen , and you 've got this pathetic energy bar thingie which encourages you to ignore them anyway ! |