Example sentences of "and forward [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 This is the process by which the manager sets aside perhaps an hour per year to talk privately to each adviser , to look back over the year and forward to the next and discuss any concerns that the manager and adviser may have .
2 The fire of the Lady of the Hearth also symbolizes the way in which we can reach back to the past and forward to the future .
3 The Occupation changes , like the events following the Restoration , aroused in the people of Japan reactions which looked both back to the past and forward to the future , and which highlighted Japan 's dependence on , yet difference from , the other cultures of the world .
4 But the , the motor car was used firstly for taking people back and forward to the station .
5 Action round-up time now … two big events this week … we 're looking back on the RAC Rally and forward to the Hennesey Gold Cup
6 Then I sort of hold her hands tight while she rocks back and forward on the bed .
7 The second half of the verse , ‘ Gesture of orang-outang/ Rises from the sheets in steam ’ simultaneously forces us back into human prehistory , before even polyphemus , and forward into the present of Doris and Mrs Turner , since monkey evolves into human where ‘ orang-outang ’ becomes homo erectus ; yet ‘ knots of hair ’ makes the modern return to the ape , and shaving Sweeney , for all his performing the action of his namesake , the demon barber , seems as crude and brutal as the Cyclops — such is the grotesquely comic evolutionary irony of the loss of hair .
8 farther east , Russian campaigns against the Buryats around the southern end of Lake Baikal went on from the 1630s to the 1680s , causing great turmoil as some Buryat and Mongol tribes withdrew to Mongolia , or were buffeted back and forward between the two aggressive empires .
9 As her bobbin shot back and forward between the wools , she sang the old Gaelic songs that had been passed down from mother to daughter for centuries .
10 In a sense , an ideal hypertext environment would emulate the way in which the human mind examines and researches information , not in a step-by-step , linear fashion , but moving in different directions and by jumping backward and forward within the information resource .
11 Evans sobbed drily , gulping in great mouthfuls of air , and rocked back and forward against the mantelpiece which was lined with Christmas cards .
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