I could try to step backward out of it or forward.

As they talked, he continued to step backward, to try to take in the whole work.

The black stepped backward for each step the brown took.

He stood as she stepped backward through the open door.

She stepped backward again, came up against the door, but it did not open.

They must, of course, go forward without appearing to step backward.

Then she stepped backward slowly, without taking her eyes from us.

He stepped backward to bring the whole screen into view.

When he stepped backward, there was only air under his right foot.

Then the two women took each other's hands and stepped backward into the rain.

I couldn't step backwards for fear of falling, anyway his arms and weight made it impossible to move.

To step backwards into the limbo of the last five years.

Upon doing this, he stepped backwards off the roof to kill himself.

For a second or two they stared at each other; then she stepped backwards.

The man who had demanded my name stepped a pace backwards.

The girl stepped backwards, and she had a look on her face that Malcolm did not like very much.

He stepped backwards, ready for anything that Olive could do.

Democratic elections sometimes have as their results countries and societies stepping backwards.

So he stopped dead and stepped backwards into the shadows.

There was no space for her to step backwards; she couldn't very well push him aside.