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BACKWARDS

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Traducere în limba română

backwards adverb, vezi backward (I).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

But the doctor sat still and opened his A B C book, turned the pages backwards and forwards, and looked for the cock.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

For a moment a dozen challenges flashed backwards and forwards at this sudden bursting of the cloud which had lowered so long between the knights of the two nations.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It may or may not be connected with our inquiry, but we will follow it backwards before we go any farther.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had got as far as Whiteman’s Green, which is rather more than midway between Crawley Down and Friars’ Oak, when, looking backwards, I saw far down the road the gleam of the sun upon a high yellow carriage.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I confess I was often tempted, while they were passing backwards and forwards on my body, to seize forty or fifty of the first that came in my reach, and dash them against the ground.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

I saw a good deal of Mrs. Strong, both because she had taken a liking for me on the morning of my introduction to the Doctor, and was always afterwards kind to me, and interested in me; and because she was very fond of Agnes, and was often backwards and forwards at our house.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It was not until he was deep among the tree trunks that he cast a glance backwards, when he found that he could still see them through the branches on the road above him.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And as the wind knocked the hanged men against each other, and they moved backwards and forwards, he thought to himself: If you shiver below by the fire, how those up above must freeze and suffer!

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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