Example sentences of "backwards and [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So erm he travelled backwards and forwards for a year prior to us coming to live here permanently . |
| 2 | He was allowed to drive the drill backwards and forwards for a couple of dozen times . |
| 3 | It was completely frozen , but for one leg that arced backwards and forwards on the floor of the cave , like the leg of a dying calf . |
| 4 | Other noisy people who were very grey moved rapidly backwards and forwards on the end wall . |
| 5 | She rocked backwards and forwards on the bench . |
| 6 | The irregular echo of footsteps passed backwards and forwards along the corridor outside . |
| 7 | Both hulls were flooded , the water driving backwards and forwards across the saloon deck as the waves lifted first one hull , then the other . |
| 8 | THE Conservative Party juggernaut was last night rolling backwards and forwards across the person of Sir Anthony Meyer after he had virtually committed himself to standing against Mrs Thatcher when the annual leadership contest is formally declared open today . |
| 9 | I waved my light backwards and forwards across the window . |
| 10 | From the study above them , however , came the sound of footsteps moving backwards and forwards across the floor . |
| 11 | One solution to this problem is to sweep the image backwards and forwards across the retina so that edges modulate the output of the DOG filter . |
| 12 | More deflector panels sweep the beam backwards and forwards across the screen to trace out the picture lines . |
| 13 | Having got used to a side view , the next stage is to let the model drift slowly backwards and forwards across the wind in front of you ( Fig. 5.2 ) . |
| 14 | This has an additional pivot , allowing the easel to swing backwards and forwards from a pathway along its length . |
| 15 | This has an additional pivot , allowing the easel to swing backwards and forwards from a pathway along its length . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was too big , a great covered space where people strode backwards and forwards in a hurry . |
| 18 | She hugged Nicholas in her arms and rocked him backwards and forwards in the basket-backed rocking chair , in the damp Islington basement , night after night , morning after morning , holding on to him in his little cream Viyella nightdress and blue sleeping bag . |
| 19 | He thrust the curtains wider , pressed his face to the glass but still all he could see was the white material flapping backwards and forwards in the wind . |
| 20 | She had drawn her lips back over her teeth while she cried , rocking herself backwards and forwards in the seat . |
| 21 | Her teeth gritted together to stop herself screaming , she rocked backwards and forwards like a child , oblivious to the drizzle that had begun while she 'd been in the kitchen with Gwen as disjointed sentences jostled in her brain for supremacy . |
| 22 | In one of those swings of mood she experienced , swooping backwards and forwards like a pendulum , Blanche was frothy again . |
| 23 | The radiologist was obviously getting good soundings on the right of my stomach , for his sensor was traversing backwards and forwards like a frigate on a sweep with a nice , fat positive response , from a holed-up submarine . |
| 24 | check Backwards and forwards like a yo-yo . |
| 25 | When fitted , the glass fibre rod will compress into a curve , forcing the sail both backwards and upwards from the cross-spar . |