How does the author use foreshadowing in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy?

The legal document Sterne inserts into Volume One, detailing how his mother wanted to have birth in London, not only foreshadows the formality within the Shandy's marriage, but also the formality between men and women in society in general at that time Sterne penned Tristram Shandy. It is interesting to note Laurence Sterne's marriage was no exception.