Example sentences of "backwards and [adv] [prep] a [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 | This has an additional pivot , allowing the easel to swing backwards and forwards from a pathway along its length . |
| 4 | This has an additional pivot , allowing the easel to swing backwards and forwards from a pathway along its length . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was too big , a great covered space where people strode backwards and forwards in a hurry . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In one of those swings of mood she experienced , swooping backwards and forwards like a pendulum , Blanche was frothy again . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | check Backwards and forwards like a yo-yo . |