Example sentences of "they [verb] forward [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They rode forward at the walk , but their weapons were ready .
2 But the only others they put forward at their recent press conference were a graduate tax , rejected by the Government under its student loans proposals , or a decline in the quality of higher education .
3 I think that really the Conservative line that they put forward on housing is totally indefensible .
4 I wish that I had found the Opposition 's citizens charter a little more convincing , but half the ideas that they put forward in their citizens charter , as a spoiling exercise to the Government 's , were already in operation and the other half were vague promises and side-stepping some of the problems that have been created by Labour-controlled local authorities up and down the country .
5 His battle cry was echoed by Baal and Set , as they hurtled forward in his wake .
6 Additionally it can become something they look forward to themselves as they begin to lose their faculties and the effort of daily living becomes burdensome .
7 At the end they look forward to a married life together in a world diminished by the events of the play .
8 Those of us who have had reason to spend even a short time in a hospital will appreciate how much they look forward to the day that they can return home , even though their period spent in the hospital may have been made as pleasant as possible by exemplary care .
9 Women who enjoy housework but have had a full-time job say that they look forward to having time to do things like get the carpet shampooed or make new curtains without someone else being in the way .
10 His bosses , the directors , say they look forward to next year , when they expect new business to increase .
11 Old Hall yes , yes , yes , yeah and so I think and of course erm I have talked erm I talk in the different clubs you know , as I say , and I think erm the majority of women usually like this , they look forward to the divi to buy say a major item , you know .
12 They look forward to other assistance from Europe in respect of the social charter .
13 She says they look forward to choir practice .
14 Stan Johnston it 's like a disease … they look forward to it all year
15 Before a bumper crowd at Tuddenham Road , Ipswich tore Wimbledon apart , as from the off they poured forward in numbers , anxious to return to European competition .
16 They shuffled forward in a dazed manner holding hands , their labels hanging round their necks .
17 Urged on by a renewed Ibrox roar , they stormed forward in search of an equaliser , and it came in the 83rd minute .
18 And they sped forward with the squeals of the pack to their right as they were sighted , the clods and stones scattering from their horses ' hoofs , into a full , tearing gallop in the twilight .
19 The whole point was that the front was where they went forward from .
20 They surged forward around the prostrate figure on the ground and then shrank back .
21 I think they looked forward to going back there .
22 They looked forward to that future time when God 's rule would be all over the earth .
23 They looked forward to starting work where they could do more of the things which they valued and join the adult community of men .
24 That made people feel that their least effort was rewarded and they looked forward to participating in the next organizational improvement .
25 Well a , my kids always got a , something at Christmas not very much at times , and they looked forward to it .
26 You know they looked forward to him coming round ?
27 So they looked forward to a boat coming in ?
28 They looked , they looked forward to a boat coming in .
29 We move them around deliberately , to gain experience and to put them in a different environment so that they come forward with fresh ideas . ’
30 In other words , we would deal with applications as they come forward on an ad hoc basis where the onus onus would be on the developer to prove er prove exceptional circumstances .
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