backwards and forwards

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In my second year at Blackburn we were top or second, it was slipping and sliding backwards and forwards.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

She described how Gordon started to rock "backwards and forwards in a chair", muttering under his breath that he was "confused".

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

She was evidently very pleased, for she kept running the skin backwards and forwards through her fingers and looking at it admiringly.

From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers