Example sentences of "back [conj] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One only has to read out their names — Sir Julian , Sir Geoffrey , Sir Michael and Sir Robin et al , to be transported back if not to Camelot then to an Excalibur lager commercial . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | ‘ I have just changed jobs and have trouble enough arranging time off to fly back and forward from Scotland . |
| 5 | She liked the way his mind went back and back in layers : how he tried to justify emotion with reason . |
| 6 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 7 | Then with his head low and his wings cast disconsolately down , Woil dropped to the floor of the cage , put a talon in the meat that the Man had dropped there when Creggan had made his attack near by , and pulled it back and out of sight in the cage 's shelter . |
| 8 | This means that even if the opponent throws a punch , you will have drawn back and out of range . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Natro shops thronged the uniformly cobbled streets , where people whizzed back and forth on bicycles or skates — often their only form of exercise . |
| 12 | Other places had half shut up , which meant trecking back and forth across bridges to get cups of luke warm coffee . |
| 13 | Those who answered his call became known as the Reaver Knights because they were forced to live off the land as they galloped back and forth across Ulthuan . |
| 14 | Hamiltons built these boats here last century and my own Crawford forebears from Corrie worked one of them , the Betsy Crawford , back and forth to Ardrossan . |
| 15 | Can you imagine you paid six hundred francs to go back and forth to trip . |
| 16 | Then there is the travelling back and forth to shows , which can often entail a long drive . |
| 17 | ‘ So I stayed in Hong Kong , flew back and forth to New York , worked at Swift to keep myself busy , and fended off a lot of very annoying letters from my mother and sister , both incessantly wondering when I was going to come to Kenya and put myself through their combined emotional wringer . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I would if I could — but he 's been flying back and forth to Australia like a damned Yo-Yo ! |
| 19 | Thing about boats you know you were speaking about the steamer coming back and forth to Wyre , but what kind of a boat service was there local boat service . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In operation , the 522H 's 450mm blade is moving back and forth at 1,700rpm , slightly faster than most d-i-y ranges , thanks to the high motor output . |
| 22 | He felt estranged from his father and his new family , and for the next few years was back and forth between Cairo and Alexandria living with his uncles and attending different schools . |
| 23 | On other rooftops black figures moved back and forth between firelight and shadows . |
| 24 | We travelled back and forth between England and India until I was seven when , because of the First World War , we did not leave India for five idyllic years from 1915 . |
| 25 | What one remembers , in the hopping back and forth between generations and time-frames , is the sheer verbal energy , itself very Scottish , with which characters keep the dark at bay . |
| 26 | His natural instinct is to make Ali laugh : today he has to settle for biting his lower lip and gazing warily back and forth between Ali and his nurses . |
| 27 | It was just a casual phrase that was tossed back and forth between acquaintances , and meant nothing — only she did n't want it to mean nothing . |
| 28 | Over a period of three weeks they were shunted back and forth between Germany , London and Cairo until the Home Office granted them temporary admission . |
| 29 | We must have driven several thousand miles back and forth between Al Ain , Abu Dhabi and Dubai . |
| 30 | 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 . |