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

Maresca was regularly animated, shouting instructions towards his players and running backwards and forwards.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 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

Then I thought about the train journey, about going backwards and forwards on that line, past the house—Megan and Scott’s house- every day.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins