Example sentences of "[adv] look [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had greatly looked forward to the meeting , hoping to hear words of wit and wisdom about the law , and perhaps a few good legal anecdotes . |
| 2 | Such a shame really , since I was so looking forward to the day . |
| 3 | ‘ You see , I was so looking forward to the prince 's return from Ludlow . ’ |
| 4 | The Aged was obviously looking forward to the evening ceremony of firing the gun . |
| 5 | I 'm real excited , as you can imagine , and greatly looking forward to the adventure . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I am greatly looking forward to the challenge . ’ |
| 7 | Then , smiling to herself , she hurried along the corridor , rather looking forward to the opportunity to see Janice on her own . |
| 8 | I was not looking forward to the packing . |
| 9 | But she was not looking forward to the trip . |
| 10 | These include excessive pallor or flushing of skin ; rapid , darting eye movements ; perspiration ; tremor of hands ; rigid posture ; aggressive manner ; excessive and/or irrelevant talking , and not looking directly at the person being spoken to . |
| 11 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 12 | Olivia did not look forward to the interview . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman need not look only to the health authority chief executive ; he can ask the patients . |
| 14 | These Koi may not look much at the time you part with your cash , but then , certain varieties never show their full potential until they are mature . |
| 15 | However , the particles that emerged would not look much like the astronaut . |
| 16 | He did not look much like the leader of anything , for he was fast asleep ; very tiny , with a shock of glossy black hair , and a wrinkled red face . |
| 17 | Covering a broader range than the single-issue groups , they presented reports and analyses on a wide range of economic and social issues which generally looked forward to the legislation of the 1940s . |
| 18 | I just looked straight down the track , set my tunnel vision and climbed into my blocks . |
| 19 | Green talks a good deal in an inflated style , and always looks sideways at the object he is speaking to ; when he looks directly forward , it is at some piece of furniture or other inanimate object , still talking all the while . |
| 20 | At first Roger , warmed by his work , confidence boosted by a bombproof hex in the base of the corner , was still looking optimistically to the crux , and seemed surprised by my shaken croaks of retreat . |
| 21 | Connon was standing a little apart from them , still looking across at the superintendent 's table . |
| 22 | After leaving the potion laboratory , she soon discovered that Mildred was not in her room and set off to look all over the school where , of course , she did not find the missing pupil . |
| 23 | But , Vinny Samways apart , they lacked the resources to overcome a Forest side , who gradually looked more like the team we know they can be — one which has won this competition in its various forms twice in the past four years . |
| 24 | She who usually looked forward to the telephone ringing , had become nervous even of that . |
| 25 | The BEA also looked carefully at the possibility of importing plant and materials , but ( with steel prices significantly higher in the USA and Europe and considerable difficulties in obtaining foreign exchange ) they confined themselves to importing only a few specialist components which were causing serious delays in the programme . |
| 26 | The Catalogue sub-committee also looks regularly at the Catalogue and decides on areas of work where either new modules need to be developed centrally or existing modules need to be updated to take account of modern developments , changes in standards , work of Lead Industry Bodies etc . |
| 27 | Clearly , the writer is also looking forward to the day when the Word of God will become flesh and live among us . |
| 28 | Gail , who is also looking forward to the birth of her first baby in November , said : ‘ We have just come back from two wet weeks in Bournemouth and said we could do with spoiling ourselves with a stay in a luxury hotel then I was told I had won — it 's amazing. , ’ |
| 29 | The declaration included a decision that recourse to nuclear weapons should be considered only as a last resort ; the meeting also looked forward to the prospect of a reduction in the armed forces of a united Germany , and issued an invitation to the Warsaw Pact to sign a joint declaration with NATO on non-aggression . |
| 30 | ‘ I was really looking forward to the trip , too . |