Example sentences of "back [conj] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes two movements to operate the lace carriage , once to the right to transfer stitches then back OR once to the right to prepare and then back transferring stitches on the return to the left , leaving the main carriage clear to work two rows ; across , to place loops in empty needles and back to the right knitting all the stitches . |
| 2 | But the , the motor car was used firstly for taking people back and forward to the station . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then I sort of hold her hands tight while she rocks back and forward on the bed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Evans sobbed drily , gulping in great mouthfuls of air , and rocked back and forward against the mantelpiece which was lined with Christmas cards . |
| 8 | But after two weeks of going back and fro to the barn they finally decided for some unknown reason that they had had enough . |
| 9 | What I want to do is get to play in a band situation so I can sit back and solo like a horn player again , using the MIDI . |
| 10 | Albert going past , he 's back and forwards to the garden . |
| 11 | The Cluthas could carry 360 passengers , and in the 60 years from the turn of the century the entire population of Glasgow must have moved back and forwards across the Clyde annually without ever getting its collective feet wet . |
| 12 | When a message allowed unambiguous identification of the requested target , children directed their gaze back and forwards across the array relatively infrequently . |
| 13 | Already there were people there , silhouettes that wandered back and forwards in the firelight . |
| 14 | They all cackle with pleasure at the absurdity of it ; then , as soon as Harry has gone back into his room , they all mock him , walking back and forth about the room holding imaginary braces and letter , and talking with a German accent . |
| 15 | The use of And yet in the third paragraph , for instance , gives the impression that the writer is thinking aloud , or perhaps just moving back and forth along the same line of argument — as one would do in chatting to a friend — rather than firmly wrapping up one stage in the argument before moving on to the next as is the case in the German text . |
| 16 | Cars purr back and forth along the expressways , bearing the Bernsteins to dinner with the Chases , the Chases to the Waylands , the Waylands for a Christmas morning drink with the Bakers . |
| 17 | Warmed by Coleman 's sympathy , El-Jorr made a point of introducing him to all the CIs and ‘ mules ’ who arrived at Eurame on their way back and forth along the pipeline , including him in the conversation as they brewed up endless cups of Lebanese coffee . |
| 18 | This involved a 65mm camera that could do stop-motion by leaving the shutter open for an extended time and also refocus automatically while moving back and forth on a track as well as up and down , if necessary . |
| 19 | He paced back and forth on the tarmac , occasionally stopping to talk to his men . |
| 20 | He cantered back and forth on the gravel beach , then rode off through a corn field . |
| 21 | ‘ Tomorrow 's a bit awkward , ’ she says , twisting her shoe back and forth on the ground . |
| 22 | His body swayed gently back and forth on the ropes . |
| 23 | Satan ran back and forth on the line a few times , snout quivering as it tasted the delicious scent trace . |
| 24 | The problem is that since West Germany also spies on its neighbour , a great deal of time is taken up with swopping convicted spies back and forth across the border . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The top was of gleaming steel which Mrs Curdle rubbed up daily with emery paper , hissing gently to herself like a groom to a horse , as her busy hand slid back and forth across the satin of the surface . |
| 27 | Second , there was a local Indonesian vessel , the Gouveneur-Generaal Loudon , which was plying back and forth across the Straits between Anjer in Java and Telok Betong in Sumatra . |
| 28 | The helicopter trawled back and forth across the channel . |
| 29 | A fibreglass dinghy filled with delicate sounding equipment towed back and forth across the Channel was built at The Moorings , Mill Lane , the home of Mr. H. F. Mallett , a director of the marine survey firm Underseas Ltd . |
| 30 | It carries the scent of pine and tosses the juniper branches back and forth across the sun , so the ground and the roof of the shrine are slashed with creeping shadows . |