Sentence examples for dived backwards from inspiring English sources

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37th over: India 207-2 (Kohli 11, Rahane 91) chasing 299 Dernbach gives Kohli the hurry-up with a bouncer, the batsman shapes to hook, mistimes it and the ball thunked off the toe of the bat, wrongfooting Kieswetter who dived backwards to his right and managed to pouch the ball in the web between thumb and forefinger.

Bond stunt double Andy Lister dived backwards off the 300-foot drop for the scene.

The ball rebounded past Tallon's shoulder and was heading for the ground when he spun and dived backwards to catch it just before it landed.

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braced themselves, and Smith dove backwards out of a helicopter into the abyss.

The wicketkeeper, Denesh Ramdin, made ground well enough but then, as the wind took over, watched helplessly as the ball blew back over his head, his final, futile dive backwards a comedy moment.

Ramdin calls for the ball, loses it against the grey skies, misjudges the wind a bit, and then suddenly realises he's messed up horribly and dives backwards in a vain attempt to get so much as a slight touch of the ball on its way groundwards.

Rush's clever use of optical effects in the documentary also reinforces the theme of the film, including Rush diving backwards, as if off a springboard, into a dissolve.

The osprey is particularly well adapted to this diet, with reversible outer toes, sharp spicules on the underside of the toes, closable nostrils to keep out water during dives, and backwards-facing scales on the talons which act as barbs to help hold its catch.

Andrew Flintoff, diving up and backwards, gets a hand to it, but can't cling on.

However, the diver admits he is now in a better place mentally - achieved in part by replacing what had become known as his 'demon dive', after the backwards 2.5 somersault with 2.5 twists in the piked position first gave him problems at London, with a new routine.

Miming his infamous crotch-grabbing, backwards-diving touchdown celebration, Lynch fulfilled his lifelong dream: To dive into an end zone of Skittles.

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