Example sentences of "[vb -s] forward [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the points gained from round 1 , Oates now holds second in class and looks forward to round 3 at Silverstone on April 4th and 5th , supporting British Touring Cars . |
| 2 | That might sound like vanity but there 's no doubt that she means it ; she says she looks forward to sleep if she feels Bob might be part of her dreams . |
| 3 | For example , the aerospace sector — one of the most dollar-sensitive industries — has forward cover on its transactions out beyond 1994 and will thus feel little or no benefit from sterling 's fall against the dollar for some time to come . |
| 4 | At another hatch an arm appears holding up bright enamel bowls and someone dashes forward to claim the grey cassava and fishheads . |
| 5 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 6 | Instead of instruction flowing in one direction — from the consumer to the market to the producer ( the ‘ accepted sequence ’ ) , ‘ the producing arm reaches forward to control its markets and beyond to manage the market behaviour and shape the social attitudes of those , ostensibly , it serves ’ . |
| 7 | A dreadful creature , with the body of a hippopotamus and the head of a crocodile , strains forward to devour those unfortunates who fail the judgement . |
| 8 | It swims forward to attack , and away to flee . |
| 9 | A nurse rushes forward tut-tut — tutting , and in the confusion , people bending over and so on , I somehow knock over Stewpid 's orange juice , distributing it quite evenly over him , the nurse and the bed , to say nothing of the chocs , which I 've never cared for much anyway . |
| 10 | In an impact injury , a bigger blunt force is applied to a larger area of the skin , leading to tissue failure , for instance if an older person slips on an uneven paving stone and falls forward hitting the forehead on the hard pavement . |
| 11 | He sits sideways on , in a Pose distantly related to that adopted by Whistler for his portrait of his mother , and holds a furled umbrella in one hand , a hat in the other , as he bends forward to peruse an Etty oil sketch , a copy of the Observer at his feet . |
| 12 | As , like Pontius Pilate , the ancestors gladly wash their hands of the sordid business of administering justice , witchcraft readily steps forward to take the necessary action , acquiring in the process an even more clearly defined moralizing character . |
| 13 | The same statute puts forward claims to what are at least analogous places . |
| 14 | It also suggests a significant minimum figure , possibly 10m therms , should be fixed for purchases and puts forward pricing proposals based on weighted average cost . |
| 15 | He leans forward looking fierce . |
| 16 | She leans forward resting her elbows on her knees , as if about to recount an anecdote . |
| 17 | Vincent 's figure , head shrouded with a sack , leans forward to attack a steep hill . |
| 18 | Richardson leans forward to stub his cigarette out in a dirty ashtray . |
| 19 | The Jamaican behind me moves forward snarling to untie the chair . |
| 20 | 3 The defender moves forward to close the distance and block . |
| 21 | But the second half of the lyric moves on from this : the completion of the line looks back to what has gone before in its rhyme , but syntactically and alliteratively it moves forward to convey the perception of that very still mourning symptomatic of the inner spiritual movement of Christ 's coming . |
| 22 | I think we must make it a positive step forward that this council not only goes forwards to build but it goes forward to use that building and give the firemen of this county the right tools , or firewoman , the firemen and the firewoman of this county the right tools to work with . |
| 23 | Megan pushes forward to bid me farewell . |
| 24 | The bed trundles forward to attack the adventurers when they have moved fully into the room . |
| 25 | Yet the only evidence that he brings forward turns out to be , in fact , the essayists ' own belief that this was what literacy could achieve . |
| 26 | In the morass of detail Mills brings forward to describe his ‘ power elite ’ , it is easy to ignore this fundamental assumption which precedes his empirical work : ‘ In so far as the power elite is composed of men of similar origin and education , in so far as their careers and their styles of life are similar , there are psychological and social bases for their unity , resting upon the fact that they are of similar social type and leading to the fact of their easy intermingling ’ . |
| 27 | The right hon. Gentleman will have ample opportunity to speak his mind and to record his vote if and when my noble and learned Friend the Lord Chancellor brings forward considered proposals on the green form scheme . |
| 28 | No one comes forward to claim the bodies . |
| 29 | Spokesmen make statements but no one comes forward to say , ’ I did it , for this and that reason . ’ |
| 30 | When the stitch is transferred to the main bed needle , the main bed needle comes forward to slide into the gap below the transfer needle and between the metal strips . |