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 | 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 . |
3 | They do not want to waste their time going backwards and forwards to the general practitioner 's surgery . |
4 | If the disc is subjected to an angular displacement and then released , the sample will twist backwards and forwards about the vertical axis . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I find it 's dangerous to be driving your car backwards and forwards across the back door in n it ? |