1.   And Jiles, in her debut novel, has brought spellbinding intensity to the process of leading readers backward through time.

2.   Dawid is seen in flashback as Fugard essentially tells the story backward through memory.

3.   Finally, they extrapolated that line backward through time to find out when earlier lineages diverged.

4.   Hopkins began its own investigation and developed a special culturing technique based on running fluid backward through the scope to detect the bacteria.

5.   I pull the front of the knife backward through a pile of herbs, rather than pressing down and pushing the knife forward.

6.   In court papers, Chamblin said his wife did not strike the girl but once pulled her backward through the house by her long, brownish hair.

7.   The problem Thursday was with the Zoomerang, a steel roller coaster that goes forward and backward through several loops.

8.   Witnesses said the girl climbed on to a window sill, lost her balance and fall backward through a window screen.