Example sentences of "[verb] forward to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She enjoys hiking and walking in her spare time , and also looks forward to her annual skiing expedition . |
| 2 | Luxembourg thanks ( l-r ) Sqn Ldr R Druitt , Flt Lts P Jackson and D Mannion , F/Sgt J Dearden and Flt Lt E Billings , and looks forward to their next visit . |
| 3 | It occurred to him that he had reached the age when a man looks forward to his pleasures less keenly than in youth but is disproportionately aggrieved when his plans are upset . |
| 4 | He looks forward to it . |
| 5 | David Brabham says his father has not got fond memories of Le mans because when he was driving it was wet and foggy … the weather was very bad … but David says he looks forward to it now because it is a classic event … he says its his first year with Jaguar at le mans |
| 6 | Dorothea had always believed in the idea of a new day , a new start , and always looked forward to something pleasurable in it . |
| 7 | It was nice to think he had looked forward to her company . |
| 8 | After a few days the household would be creeping around ‘ not to disturb Dad ’ who was sulking in his room bored to death with his family , and the children would be trying to comfort a depressed and weeping Mum who had so looked forward to her handsome popular brilliant husband 's return and did n't know what she had done wrong . |
| 9 | She had imagined that the doctor would be male ; she had looked forward to it even , a chance to pit herself against him , to resist , to overcome ; but when she was finally ushered into the consulting room she was greeted by a woman younger than herself . |
| 10 | I 'd looked forward to it for ages , there 'd been a build-up but it was quite different for her . ’ |
| 11 | I have so looked forward to it , making all the things with Matey , and thinking of what we shall do with the money we make — which is stupid really , when I know that I could so easily give them so much more — But that would be nothing , for what I have done with Matey has been done by me , and not by Papa , for that is what giving them his money would mean . |
| 12 | quite looked forward to his love-making . |
| 13 | AS A LONGSTANDING admirer of the poetry of Ted Hughes , I had looked forward to his prose book about Shakespeare . |
| 14 | Some of Gram 's classic tear-in-my-beer stuff was clearly inspired by crooner George Jones , but the best of his songs are delivered with a shiver in the throat — as with Hank Williams and Jimmie Rogers , you could practically hear the hell-hounds on his tail as he addressed old girlfriends , southern vistas , and rotten townships and morbidly looked forward to his own druggy demise . |
| 15 | Furthermore , they were in debt 5/5 though that was carried forward to their next account . |
| 16 | Denis came forward to his sister , looking stern and said firmly , Sit yourself down , Noreen . ’ |
| 17 | And then we had the moment that a lot of you er were n't looking forward to which was playing the video back , yes . |
| 18 | At the time of speaking Jake is looking forward to what should be a rapturous Belfast homecoming — but why no Dublin date ? |
| 19 | they should be actually looking forward to what , if I do these |
| 20 | Either way , she was n't looking forward to what was coming next . |
| 21 | Coach Romantsev said : ‘ We are looking forward to what we think will be a very good game of football . |
| 22 | Tiptree spokesman Tim Huxtable said that they were looking forward to their day out , and that Peter Richardson , Michael Beckett , Rob Hadgraft , Gerry Madden , Liz James and the others were keen to make an impression . |
| 23 | With these objectives in mind , the TSB is embarking on second generation development of both its systems , and is looking forward to their continuing to make a positive contribution to the successful operation of the business . |
| 24 | I agree that the colleges are looking forward to their independence and to expanding the opportunities for further education available to our young people . |
| 25 | I am disappointed that none of those hon. Members is in his place , because I had been looking forward to their contributions and should have liked to address the odd remark to them , but I shall do that in any event . |
| 26 | By the time they 'd parked the car and were hurrying towards the station platform , the little girl 's enthusiasm had soothed her tattered nerves , and she was really looking forward to their day together in London . |
| 27 | And now David did n't want any part of it , and she 'd been so looking forward to their sharing in the discoveries . |
| 28 | After 2 defeats in a row at the Manor , Oxford United are probably looking forward to their trip to St Andrews to play bottom club , Birmingham . |
| 29 | Fans of the Fab Four of the 90s need not fret ( guitar pun there ) , the band are looking forward to their date at the Empire in August . |
| 30 | So we 've got this group of people who are and just retired , they 're sixty-five and have just retired , and they 're looking forward to their pension le lo losing completely in two-and-a-half years time unless something 's done about it . |