Example sentences of "[adv] forward [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The hand that held the rein tightened without even a start , the head that had been inclined easily forward in thought came up smoothly and instantly , every muscle in formidable control .
2 Discussion will be comparatively abstract and detailed elaboration will be left to Chapter 7 , but the themes will be taken a little further forward in relation to a discussion of the transition of state engagement with society from modernism/modernization to post-modernism/post-modernization .
3 Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence .
4 What happens if you run fast forward in vision ?
5 There was a moment 's quietness , as of a grace before a meal , and then the mare stepped sweetly forward from leg to hand .
6 Continue forward across second field to stile ahead , then forward on track ( which soon runs between hedges ) , eventually descending to pass car park on your left and Pecorama on your right , track has now become a road on outskirts of Beer .
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