What some other languages convey with prospective aspect, English conveys with expressions like going to drive the car home.

The poem was called Lines for Early Middle Age, and it was signed Fenella Crabbe, but it was impossible that Fenella — twenty-eight or twenty-nine — should think of herself as middle-aged, or even, being a woman and a good-looking woman although a poet, have a proleptic Eliotian image of an aged eagle with tired wings demanding to be released from the dressing-mirror.

The next day, as soon as a case was decided, he quietly sneaked out of the room, and, following the successful suitor, significantly held out his palm. To my joy and surprise, says Paunchkourí, he slipped a rupee into it, and whispered to me to give the múnshí (the Persian clerk) his share.[]

to face the front of a coat, or the bottom of a dress