Example sentences of "backwards and [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Other noisy people who were very grey moved rapidly backwards and forwards on the end wall . |
| 3 | She rocked backwards and forwards on the bench . |
| 4 | She paced up and down ; she went backwards and forwards to the windows , stepping on to the little balcony where they sat together in the afternoon sun , peering down the street . |
| 5 | ‘ Backwards and forwards to the States , speaks at Noraid rallies . |
| 6 | The irregular echo of footsteps passed backwards and forwards along the corridor outside . |
| 7 | ‘ Just drive round ! ’ he ordered , and the driver drove backwards and forwards through the streets of London . |
| 8 | Well he 's like the pig in the middle again , er they 've told him well unless you drive the waggon backwards and forwards through the gates , well you 're no good to us sort of down the road . |
| 9 | The horse dentist will smooth the sharpness away by using a metal rasp which is rubber backwards and forwards over the teeth . |
| 10 | Both hulls were flooded , the water driving backwards and forwards across the saloon deck as the waves lifted first one hull , then the other . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I waved my light backwards and forwards across the window . |
| 13 | From the study above them , however , came the sound of footsteps moving backwards and forwards across the floor . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | More deflector panels sweep the beam backwards and forwards across the screen to trace out the picture lines . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | Gould 's accounts imply that he spent much of the latter part of his expedition , because of a shortage of water , doubling backwards and forwards from the Mount Lofty range to the Murray Scrubs ( later known as the Mallee ) , where most of the interesting birds were to be found : |
| 18 | Morton remained on his feet , swaying backwards and forwards from the balls to the heels of his shoes . |
| 19 | The Cardiff depot will strengthen our presence in South Wales and will eliminate the need to drive service vehicles backwards and forwards from the Bristol branch to that area . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For the next half-hour Roland worked haphazardly , moving backwards and forwards in the Vico , half-looking for Proserpina , half-reading Ash 's notes , which was not easy , since they were written in various languages , in Ash 's annotating hand , which was reduced to a minute near-printing , not immediately identifiable as the same as his more generous poetic or letter-writing hand . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She had drawn her lips back over her teeth while she cried , rocking herself backwards and forwards in the seat . |
| 24 | When fitted , the glass fibre rod will compress into a curve , forcing the sail both backwards and upwards from the cross-spar . |