Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] forward " in BNC.
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| 1 | BESO looks forward to developing its collaboration with TRANSAID and to making greater use of its bank of expertise , not only in transportation but also in other fields in support of TRANSAID 's objectives . |
| 2 | Andy plays forward for Englands U21 — Frank for Norway — and Norway is the best of the two teams . |
| 3 | Eleanor Pitman ( Kent ) one of the first Qualified Teachers , Eleanor looks forward to spending and enjoying more time with her family . |
| 4 | As Richard looks forward to 1992 , he also thinks of two people he never met who carried donor cards and saved his life not once , but twice . |
| 5 | On the other hand , Mr Moynihan looks forward with foreboding . |
| 6 | Lisa Stansfield looks forward to the Eighties |
| 7 | For feminists , one interesting implication of the idea that Trudgill puts forward , and of his findings , is that gender allegiance seems to be at least as powerful for men ( in the attitudes they express , if not in their behaviour ) as class allegiance . |
| 8 | Marie leans forward and sort of hugs me . |
| 9 | In the course of his rectorial address at Edinburgh in 1907 , Haldane asserted that " when a leader of Ingenious comes forward the people may bow down before him , and surrender their wills , and eagerly obey " , since " to obey the commanding voice was to rise to a further and wider outlook , and to gain a fresh purpose " . |
| 10 | Andy comes forward a couple of feet . |
| 11 | While Moses looks forward to the ‘ good ’ to come , their minds are fixed on the ‘ evil ’ of the present . |
| 12 | Wordsworth looks forward to an ideal Welfare State where all are entitled to ‘ maintenance by law ’ feeling of degradation . |
| 13 | ( The move from Aigai to the more central Pella looks forward to hellenistic times : cp. p. 211 ; also p. 48 on the way Sicily too simultaneously shows ‘ archaic ’ and ‘ hellenistic ’ features . |
| 14 | John Ley looks forward to an international showpiece in which opening and closing ceremonies could rival the main event |
| 15 | Still , the two parties have moved towards the round-table talks that both want — although the government calls them a multi-party conference , whereas the ANC looks forward to an all-party congress , to be followed eventually by an elected constituent assembly . |
| 16 | The lights turn to amber and the Toyota darts forward , revealing , would n't you know it , a legend in its rear window , HANG GLIDERS DO IT IN MID-AIR . |
| 17 | I feel pressure on my back as Frank leans forward and pushes me against the window with his paunch . |
| 18 | From the perspective of radical Labour councils ( seeking to oppose Conservative central government cuts ) Saunders puts forward the same four dimensions : |
| 19 | As the Toyota moves forward they fall backwards . |
| 20 | The views of both managers coming up as Mark Kiff looks forward to D-Day . |
| 21 | Campaign TV John Dugdale looks forward to the night of the swingometer |
| 22 | Charles Winter ( centre ) shares a joke with Cyril Littlewood while entertainer Gary Wilmot calls forward the prizewinners . |
| 23 | Sir : In his article ‘ Creating money to buy trouble with ’ ( 9 October ) , William Rees-Mogg puts forward the surprising view that the early 1980s constitututed a ‘ Thatcherite miracle ’ . |
| 24 | As the TARDIS slips forward in time from the French Revolution a freak accident causes the main doors to swing open briefly during materialisation . |
| 25 | [ BELVILLE comes forward . ] |
| 26 | From the condition of being Agonistes , Sweeney points forward to the later ritualistic conception of Eliot 's Christian drama . |
| 27 | Death and violence are the accompaniments to negotiation as South Africa struggles forward to elections next year . |
| 28 | The introduction makes a perfunctory bow to linguistics when Genette puts forward the hypothesis that narrative may be regarded as ‘ the development — monstrous , if you will — given to a verbal form , in the grammatical sense of the term : the expansion of a verb … |
| 29 | Van Laue puts forward the argument that Russia was fatally trapped in an agonising contradiction that produced the establishment of a parliamentary government or in fact any other government than the Bolsheviks . |
| 30 | Martha leans forward . |