Example sentences of "and [verb] forward " in BNC.

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1 With a gasp , I swiped at my face and neck and plunged forward , shuddering , flailing my arms wildly in front , feeling the drapes of web building on me , dragging me down .
2 She got up and limped forward .
3 ‘ Sometimes , ’ Defries said , holstering the blaster and stepping forward with her hand extended , ‘ but right now I 'm too fragged to maintain the pretence .
4 A girl , overcome by enthusiasm for the occasion , took off her clothes and sprung forward through the crowds .
5 Some Labour politicians , including Reg Prentice as a junior minister , wished them to be ‘ required ’ to do this ; Crosland preferred that they should be ‘ requested ’ , determined that empty threats should not be issued or implied and to go forward as fast as he could by agreement and persuasion .
6 But they were both committed and to go forward .
7 The function or meaning of an element is never fully present because it depends on its association with other elements to which it harks back and refers forward .
8 Then he ran back along the bare wooden branch that hung across his cage and turning suddenly , raised his wings in the air and lunged forward towards Creggan again .
9 He raised his wings and pulled them back a little , bent his head forward , slightly opened his beak , and lunged forward and down at the white flesh of the hand that was pushing itself with a piece of sandwich through the front bars of his cage .
10 Then he whisked something out and lunged forward .
11 In desperation he whipped the knife back to his good left hand and lunged forward with the blade extended before him .
12 As Zen came through the door he suddenly saw an opening and lunged forward , so that for the next thirty seconds or so he was unable to reply to his visitor 's question .
13 I think he 's done it , I think he 's across the river and safe and there 's a buzzy glow of vicarious accomplishment starting to well up within me , but then there 's a cracking noise and he falls ; I think he 's tripped and fallen forward but he is n't lying flat on the snow , he 's sunk up to his waist in it and there 's a pool of darkness spreading on the whiteness around him as he struggles , trying to lever himself out and I ca n't believe this is happening , ca n't believe Andy is n't going to jump free ; I 'm yelling in fear now , shouting his name , screaming out to him .
14 What we have done is we have erm been able to utilise some A C T capacity or generate some A C T capacity within one of the subsidiaries within the group um the reason for highlighting it highlighting it is not particularly to make a song and dance about it but is particularly to say that on the cash flow statement there is this in-flood and it is a one off in-flood we 're not going to be seeing that being brought forward every year , but basically what it is is we have profits in previous elements of the group which enabled us to generate A C T capacity enabled us to off set this A C T which we paid on dividends and bringing forward earlier than we would otherwise have done .
15 Doormen in red coats , royal blue silk lining flapping an appearance , peel off the foyer glass doors , and forge forward to park the car and muster bags .
16 Er it is not asking the panel to n you know to draft a rite that would used and I , I would interpret this to mean that it 's asking the panel to look up the theological propriety if you like of such a rite and bring forward suggestions which would then be passed for implementation , if so decided , to the panel on worship .
17 A number of pilot projects in 1993 will research this and bring forward proposals for April 1994 .
18 Ann Winterton , Tory MP for Congleton , called for a full legal review and a policy decision by the Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , to examine the options and bring forward a new law .
19 Masklin lowered himself carefully to the floor and crept forward .
20 He nodded and crept forward carefully to examine the driver .
21 The youth drew the pirogue up the grey sand and crept forward to the clearing , and stood , trying to piece together the disorder that he could dimly pick out in the darkness .
22 The principal way in which the behaviour has been elucidated is by numerical solutions of the equations ; one starts with some initial condition for ( X , Y , Z ) and integrates forward in t .
23 In this way , with one small rock fall following another , the flow continues to advance , very slowly , clanking and rattling forward like a shuffling slag heap .
24 Communist parties were exhorted to eschew all alliances and push forward with armed insurgence whenever the opportunity arose .
25 The host of darkness let out a howl of anguish and charged forward to overwhelm the lone Elf warrior and the Elf army raced to meet them .
26 He thrust out his chainsword like a lance , and charged forward , into the smoke and explosions .
27 The men lowered core moulds made of orange sand into the boxes , which were turned over and joined to boxes containing the other half of the moulds ( the bottom half was the drag , the top the cope — the first bit of jargon she had managed to master ) and moved forward on the track to the casting area .
28 Martin groaned closed eyes and moved forward with his hips .
29 He had no idea where he was going , and moved forward mechanically , as though in a dream .
30 He got in alongside her , slammed the door , and moved forward to speak to the driver .
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