Example sentences of "and forwards in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , you could slide the leading foot forwards and outwards and then throw your body-weight forwards , swinging the rear leg in and forwards in a shallow U-shaped movement . |
| 2 | It was too big , a great covered space where people strode backwards and forwards in a hurry . |
| 3 | Iron jaws and iron claws , opening the cotton , chewing it , champing it , throwing out the cotton , spewing it , stamping it , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards in a ruthless and remorseless inescapable refrain : |
| 4 | She did not dare look down , but she could feel the machine moving below her like a maddened metal beast prowling backwards and forwards in a pit , its metal jaws opening and closing , clanging and gnashing with thwarted fury . |
| 5 | Neither could the lower jaw slide backwards and forwards in a saw-like motion because the ‘ hinge ’ between the lower jaw and skull ( the joint between the quadrate bone on the skull and articular bone of the lower jaw ) was tight when the jaws were shut . |