Example sentences of "[coord] forth as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | It was filled with rows and rows of towering bookcases that seemed to sway back and forth as they disappeared into the darkness at the top of the room . |
2 | He regarded the men beneath him impassively , his eyes flicking back and forth as they looked up at him . |
3 | He began to apply the cooling foliage to her skin , turning the leaves back and forth as they took on her body heat . |
4 | Small 's nephew stood behind the firing squad and trained a searchlight back and forth as we hared across the fields . |
5 | She circumvented fat tourists in fancy dress , civic marshals in baggy overalls , then a personal camera drone , its head swivelling back and forth as it scanned the canal for its owner at home . |
6 | They sit him in the rocking-chair in front of the hearth , to rock himself back and forth as he muses out loud about the enslavement of man by natural technology . |
7 | The skin beneath his chin hung in thick folds that swayed back and forth as he walked . |