Example sentences of "backwards and [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a fit of crazy violence she began to run one arm backwards and forwards on the rusty metal until it began to bleed . |
| 2 | This can mean up to six or seven trips backwards and forwards on the same holes . |
| 3 | Cars also demonstrate whether imaginative play can develop or whether the child is showing repetitive and uncreative play pushing the car backwards and forwards on the same spot . |
| 4 | the corners of the Polychromos Pastels produced the finest lines ; rubbing them backwards and forwards on the leading edge gave the greatest intensity of colour . |
| 5 | They do not want to waste their time going backwards and forwards to the general practitioner 's surgery . |
| 6 | If the disc is subjected to an angular displacement and then released , the sample will twist backwards and forwards about the vertical axis . |
| 7 | Then soften the charcoal and copper shadows using a cotton bud ; start where the colour is deepest , and brush and roll it backwards and forwards onto the lighter areas . |
| 8 | She was walking backwards and forwards over the makeshift stage shaking sand on to the boards from a small bucket , trying to evoke the desert sands of Saudi Arabia . |
| 9 | The third is that , in the real world , the eyes are moving all the time so that even cells that would behave transiently in electrophysiological studies in which the eyes are routinely immobilized , would generate a continuous output as the stimulus sweeps backwards and forwards across the receptive field . |
| 10 | I find it 's dangerous to be driving your car backwards and forwards across the back door in n it ? |