Example sentences of "back and [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 3 | He 's declaring that he 's using a taxi and it costs him a hundred and sixty pound a month , every day back and forwards to work , well everyone knows that 's a lie cos she takes him to work |
| 4 | The second stage is a kind of broadside display ; it is called the ‘ parallel walk ’ , and in it the two males walk back and forth along side each other . |
| 5 | Can you imagine you paid six hundred francs to go back and forth to trip . |
| 6 | The back-up handle is again heaved back and forth for undercarriage and , after quickly selecting press cold on the air-conditioning panel to combat the rising personal temperature , a curving 130- knot approach is flown with quite high power on the remaining engine . |
| 7 | On other rooftops black figures moved back and forth between firelight and shadows . |
| 8 | The consequences of this really became apparent in the Eighties , with stars , directors , writers , producers , execs and , most crucially , product shuttling back and forth between TV and Tinseltown . |
| 9 | Harris perceived that the I-Thou relationship is represented perfectly adequately by By frequently limiting his scope to I and Thou Shakespeare is creating an interpersonal field which is so restricted that thoughts , ideas , feelings move back and forth between sender and receiver without the need for any other delimitation or definition . |
| 10 | She moves restlessly back and forth between living-room and kitchen , feeding the cats , picking up children 's boots , looking for a letter she was writing . |
| 11 | I think the quite clearly what comes out erm of reading our papers and the papers of the district , is the er tremendous degree of consultation that 's taken place on a number of occasions back and forth between district and making use of er of emerging working on er on local plans across the county . |
| 12 | Recalling the Renaissance 's preoccupation with mirrors and optics , in which an exchange — something moving back and forth between viewer and image — was postulated , Greenblatt proposes a similar procedure taking place with Shakespeare 's texts . |
| 13 | Branagh himself , for all his vocal assurance , has a flat , thin-lipped , distinctly inexpressive mouth , a considerable drawback for a screen actor , especially in close-up , where a viewer 's attention is likely to flicker back and forth between mouth and eyes . |
| 14 | Although Toryism might have survived as a distinctive ideology , and although a Tory party with its own organisation might have continued to exist , the fact of the matter is that single-party government was established under George I and George II , and there was no swinging back and forth between Tory- and Whig-dominated administrations such as had happened under William and Anne . |
| 15 | Below us , the pale grey shape of a quartering male hen harrier flew back and forth over reed beds until it spied prey — and on an instant dropped to the ground . |
| 16 | Gail , 25 , who slept with her gold medal round her neck over the weekend , said : ‘ I 've got to admit that I 've been back and forth through hell on the way to Barcelona . ’ |
| 17 | Experiments have shown that males which perform the zigzag display at a higher rate ( more swims back and forth per minute ) are more likely to be successful at courtship : a female is more likely to mate with a male whose zigzagging is more energetic . |
| 18 | The two tiny hands clasped together swung back and forth with excitement . |
| 19 | Her small hands flew like gold-ringed birds as she told the news , rocking back and forth with laughter at one of her own jokes . |
| 20 | Going back , we 're jumping back and forth in history , this is all sort of fairly mickey mouse history really , it 's just erm isolated observations and bits of information . |
| 21 | The ions in the plasma gyrate back and forth in JET 's magnetic containment field , and by tuning the RF power to this frequency , the radio waves resonate with the ions , passing on energy and raising the plasma 's temperature . |
| 22 | But I will never forget that time we both watched your father walking back and forth in front of the summerhouse , looking down at the ground as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there . ’ |
| 23 | The story is not an easy one to follow , particularly as it goes back and forth in time , and locations change quickly . |
| 24 | But there are a lot of flaws : the idea of combining four generations involves weaving back and forth in time which works occasionally . |
| 25 | Thus people will readily switch back and forth from money to other assets . |
| 26 | Donna frowned and put her foot down , coaxing more speed from the Volvo , her eyes flicking back and forth from windscreen to rear-view mirror . |
| 27 | She had little idea as to the extent of his amputation and of his various trips back and forth from theatre . |
| 28 | Three basic points are fixed on a plaster model of the original and on the marble block , and the frame transferred back and forth from model to block , each point being marked by drilling a hole to the required depth . |
| 29 | The camera tracks back and forth from bedroom to kitchen as the servants go about their chores . |