Example sentences of "[v-ing] forward " in BNC.
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| 1 | They split apart in the straight , one group swinging wide , the red and white of premiere spurting forward with the Youngs ' pair at his quarters and Upper Gumtree swerving dramatically through a gap to take the rails well ahead of pampering . |
| 2 | ‘ Shut the fuck up about Catch-22 , ya cretin ; ’ Ash said , storming forward and planting both fore-arms on the table cloth . |
| 3 | Unlike other bats , horseshoe bats move their outer ear flaps in fast alternating forward and backward sweeps . |
| 4 | Follow the track to farm , keeping forward as signposted in centre of farm ( ignoring left fork ) , and descend gently to main road . |
| 5 | Now a couple of weeks ago a man called Mr Lamont actually resigned I understand or was he sacked I 'm not quite sure , but when he disappeared off the scene , Mr Major said I am still keeping forward with my policies . |
| 6 | Well if he 's keeping forward with his policies , why did he have to sack the man ? |
| 7 | But others were pushing — notably such local authorities as Liverpool and Bristol who wanted from London a strong lead ( and money ) in pressing forward their plans for comprehensives . |
| 8 | But the only real problem was controlling the crowds of voters pressing forward to cast their ballots . |
| 9 | Hi 's desperate overland journey is interrupted by weather , by bandits , by the hazards of terrain : finally captured by Lopez 's Reds , he learns that even while he was pressing forward with his message , Carlotta had been seized by Lopez and , after refusing to pray to him as the God he declares himself to be , had been brutally slaughtered by the public hangman . |
| 10 | Many fail and are abandoned by the receding tide to die as thousands more swim in the shallows , pressing forward to take their turn . |
| 11 | " Let him alone ! " cried Hazel , for now they were all pressing forward to help him . |
| 12 | The principle ground urged on behalf of the applicant was that the district judge had been misled by counsel then appearing or the Attorney-General into the belief that there was no real prospect that the B.M.F.L. prosecution of the applicant would go ahead , and that accordingly there could be no objection to pressing forward with the lesser charges . |
| 13 | Deepening the Common Market , that is pressing forward with existing policies , had to compete with the claims of policy widening , such as new initiatives in regional and monetary policy . |
| 14 | Yes it was yes , last sort of quarter of an hour they was pressing forward and you know , it always looks like you know , they 're going to nick it but , we held out . |
| 15 | This may explain a strange scene on a beaker from Stanwick , Northants. , ( fig. 14.12 ) which shows a satyr leaping forward with his typical thin elongated arms stretched out in front of him . |
| 16 | The horse was made to foil her every move , leaping forward as she moved quickly and turning her away . |
| 17 | This could mean that they will become major forces driving forward the concept of sport , leisure , cultural and artistic movements during the 1990's . |
| 18 | To his mind the central tenet of the game — that you will be rewarded for driving forward and making ground — has been abandoned . |
| 19 | It cuts right across everything we believe rugby football should be about — driving forward , gaining ground and exerting pressure . |
| 20 | The little Bath wizard kept England B driving forward and changed a 5–8 half-time deficit into an 11–8 lead with two penalties early in the second period . |
| 21 | Having said this , we are in no doubt that CCW has a crucial ‘ catalytic ’ role to play in driving forward a major new initiative on environmental education . |
| 22 | driving forward our commercial strategy by : |
| 23 | WEDGWOOD Golf Society 's go-getting committee is driving forward this season with a new secretary , a new venue and a major push to attract more members . |
| 24 | And how about yourself , you obviously were n't that happy playing at left back for Oxford United , and you 've slotted into the central defence , playing a lot happier and of course , driving forward when you can for these goals ? |
| 25 | ‘ Australia , ’ he sobbed , forehead cracking forward against the pane . |
| 26 | After a hundred years of ambling forward in happy confusion , the time has surely come for a new broom or brooms to sweep clean . |
| 27 | ‘ That gel 's gettin' forward , ’ said Mrs Beavis fondly . |
| 28 | At source , a basalt lava may be moving at twenty or more kilometres an hour ; at the far end it may be oozing forward like treacle at only a few metres per hour ; so the temperature of a magma will obviously affect the style of an eruption considerably . |
| 29 | Heaving over to one elbow just in time not to drown in her own effluent , Jezrael was so involved with her physical self that it was only after a moment that she noticed the base of one wall oozing forward to cover her vomit . |
| 30 | He hit an 8-iron to 12 feet and started walking forward . |