Example sentences of "back and forward " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cutting back and forward furiously , Royston tries to include the complex relationship between Ruth 's father and his ageing ‘ boy ’ , Tim ( Ilarrio Bisi-Pedro ) ; as well as a portrait of Gumede , a freedom fighter on the verge of lunacy — excellently played by Osei Bentil ; and an analysis of a South African police Colonel who is affably stark mad . |
| 2 | But perhaps most severe of all are tests for susceptibility to motion sickness : they will be blindfolded , and have to move their heads and upper parts of the body back and forth or up and down ; and they will be pushed back and forward on a track every five seconds for 20 minutes . |
| 3 | Then I sort of hold her hands tight while she rocks back and forward on the bed . |
| 4 | I get an idea to hug her , so that 's what I do , and we rock back and forward together . |
| 5 | He stopped and then small movements back and forward and the warmth began like a tongue inside his lapping . |
| 6 | Angry words were bandied back and forward . |
| 7 | Celia just looked at him , running her tongue back and forward through that chip in her teeth , then she looked at Jed . |
| 8 | The linear trim position indicator runs immediately behind it a red pointer moving back and forward to markings numbered either side of a central zero . |
| 9 | Soon he came upon the first of the Regent 's horsemen , Douglases to a man , riding back and forward , to form a cordon cutting off the castle . |
| 10 | She lay there rocking gently back and forward , thinking , If that is what he wants … |
| 11 | Adult opinion has swung back and forward as to the value of one method or another and sheer fashion plays a part in determining feeding methods from one generation — or one decade — to the next . |
| 12 | farther east , Russian campaigns against the Buryats around the southern end of Lake Baikal went on from the 1630s to the 1680s , causing great turmoil as some Buryat and Mongol tribes withdrew to Mongolia , or were buffeted back and forward between the two aggressive empires . |
| 13 | The 1:1 ratio between projected and camera film can be varied if the projector or , more conveniently , its lens can move back and forward . |
| 14 | ‘ Great , ’ I say , rocking back and forward in my seat . |
| 15 | After a while he put his head in his hands and sat there , rocking back and forward , clutching his hair just above his ears . |
| 16 | Tears and anger flow back and forward and round fear , fear for our survival , fear of rejection , fear of loss of dignity and of life . |
| 17 | Evans sobbed drily , gulping in great mouthfuls of air , and rocked back and forward against the mantelpiece which was lined with Christmas cards . |
| 18 | But the , the motor car was used firstly for taking people back and forward to the station . |
| 19 | Then I realized that almost everyone in what I had once regarded as my own day was probably in a similar predicament , that the shattering effects of the war had probably distributed most of 2020 back and forward throughout history ! |
| 20 | ‘ I have just changed jobs and have trouble enough arranging time off to fly back and forward from Scotland . |
| 21 | You think I intend to spend all my time passing love notes back and forward ? ’ |
| 22 | She said moving the pupils back and forward was bound to be unsettling and confusing for them . |
| 23 | As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries . |
| 24 | I 'll be fucking back and forward every couple of days ! |
| 25 | They ai n't half done a lot of r er lorries and that going back and forward today over there . |
| 26 | It was they were back and forward there by the thousands ! |