Example sentences of "[to-vb] forward " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leopard flattened his belly to the ground and began to creep forward . |
| 2 | The difficulty was this : he wanted to increase the elevation to creep forward over those last 300 yards ( he did not dare exceed the two-pound charge ) but , as every gunner knows , increasing the elevation beyond five degrees can be a risky business ; it is not the great number of rounds that destroys a cannon but the high elevation at which it is fired . |
| 3 | It was empty and the automatic shift was in Drive so that the car continued to creep forward under the gentle pull of the engine . |
| 4 | In answer to Springfield 's signal , Rocky 's big rig revved up , belched smoke from its overhead exhausts and began to creep forward . |
| 5 | I began to shuffle forward , hands stretched out in front . |
| 6 | H well , back to obscurity , ’ a Tory MP muttered to his colleague yesterday as they passed a journalist who failed to leap forward and solicit their views on the party leadership . |
| 7 | Here the founder of what was , for many years , Britain 's only robot firm tells how the UK missed not one but three golden opportunities to leap forward in this technology |
| 8 | They were in luck , for the sky was still murky and a thin drizzle falling , excuse enough for him to cover his head and shadow his face within his capuchon , and for her to pull forward the hood of her old cloak , and hide within it . |
| 9 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
| 10 | They were not so much intelligent as shrewd — their organizational sense enabled them to sniff out the golden chance and grasp it firmly , it enabled them to strain forward rather than stand back waiting passively to be asked . |
| 11 | You 've got to stand forward a little bit more , have n't you ? |
| 12 | Last year 's 970 new entrants were the smallest number of new members to come forward since 1980 . |
| 13 | THE CONVICTION and jailing for rape of Constable Peter Anderson was yesterday welcomed by law reformers and women 's groups , who said it should serve to encourage other rape victims to come forward and report crime , writes Heather Mills . |
| 14 | Support continued to come forward for the Appeal from Branches , individuals and organisations . |
| 15 | Support for the Association 's work continues to come forward and the Association is increasingly benefiting from working with other organisations on mutually beneficial projects with the Association often achieving both publicity and financial assistance . |
| 16 | ‘ That is why I want Hampshire county council to come forward quickly with fresh proposals on a county-wide basis which have regard to the current regional guidance housing provision figures . ’ |
| 17 | This is ‘ practical ’ in the sense that the prosecution need not rely on members of the public to come forward and give evidence , which there is often a reluctance to do . |
| 18 | He welcome Mr Gummer 's stance on discrimination , but urged the minister to come forward with concrete alternatives . |
| 19 | Would n't it be better not to translate Billy 's invitation to come forward , as the people at the Welsh meeting understood English and it allowed a quiet moment between Billy 's phrases ? |
| 20 | Flanked by his wife , Jeanne , and Mayor David Dinkins of New York , he said he had kept his illness secret since 1988 to protect his family 's privacy but had been forced to come forward after a press inquiry . |
| 21 | Detectives are appealing for the lorry driver and any other witnesses who may have seen the struggle in the supermarket or car park to come forward . |
| 22 | But I hope that we will widen the net with this project so that people wo n't be scared to come forward . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Sinclair said the inquiry was continuing , and appealed to anyone who might have helped Mr Jowett build the machine to come forward . |
| 24 | The organ will play and I 'm going to ask the people to come forward and give their offerings . |
| 25 | These two reports remain the source of almost all the information about the eruption ; the Royal Society in particular went to great lengths to amass every possible scrap of information and even inserted a notice in The Times requesting anyone who had seen or heard anything to come forward . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , among the middle class , there were few institutions so revered as the schools , and their influence in clubs was held to be of great consequence as reformers regularly called for public-school men to come forward to work in the clubs . |
| 27 | In similar circumstances you are , therefore , more likely to come forward with ideas again . |
| 28 | Customers for the plant are proving slow to come forward . |
| 29 | And then we would get the evangelists staying for a fortnight at a time , holding services every night asking people to come forward and rededicate themselves . |
| 30 | He called all others who felt a stirring to be involved in subsequent sending out of church planting teams to come forward . |