Example sentences of "and forth [prep] [art] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Again , if you find you arc always walking back and forth to a larder or pantry , or to shelves at the other end of the kitchen , a storage trolley or cart which you could wheel up when necessary should help .
2 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 .
3 But no response came from the darkness , and after swaying precariously back and forth for a minute or two , his feet slipped on the twisting bamboo rods and he fell to his knees .
4 She twitched the hand-written parchment pages back and forth for a moment or two looking for them , then caught his amused glance .
5 Parking difficulties — so more time — more nervous energy — more pulling back and forth at the steering-wheel and the gear-lever — none of which , he might tell us , he in any way enjoys .
6 Seemed to go back and forth between the reservation and the city for a while looking for the right place to be .
7 I ran back and forth across the street until I found the dirty door .
8 In one instance the complainant and his witnesses each had to walk over three hundred kilometres back and forth from the court because the case was postponed several times .
9 Laverne trots back and forth like a dog that wo n't give up , outside an entrance the size of a tea-cup .
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