backwards and forwards

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They described a revolving-door pattern of going backwards and forwards between NHS services for different treatments, with their daughter improving and then repeatedly relapsing.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2025

When Det Sgt Jones said she wanted to do some checks on him, Gordon shouted, jumped up from his seat and started pacing backwards and forwards.

From BBC • May 27, 2025

I felt dragged backwards and forwards in time.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2024

“This was heart wrenching, it was backwards and forwards and there were moments when I thought it was going in one direction and then in another,” Cauce says, on the video news conference.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 24, 2023

In the deep shade, at the farther end of the room, a figure ran backwards and forwards.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë