Example sentences of "[verb] forward to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Eleanor Pitman ( Kent ) one of the first Qualified Teachers , Eleanor looks forward to spending and enjoying more time with her family .
2 LEFT : Cute kid John Kocinski looks forward to lunch
3 It may appear curiously anachronistic to include a chapter on " hearing children read " in a book which looks forward to language and learning in an age of computers and mechanisation .
4 You know I mean always looked forward to champagne but er there we are .
5 Unionists therefore looked forward to domination of the government : but this never happened .
6 The answer to the first of those three points is that the Home Secretary will shortly be publishing his promised and much looked forward to paper on criminal prevention .
7 ‘ I have very much looked forward to retirement , and , like many others , I find that I have even less time than before to pursue all that I would like to do , ’ Dr Florin said .
8 The former Community Charge was payable on a variety of days depending on the payment method used and this procedure has been carried forward to Council Tax .
9 It is the alternative recommendation that we put forward to housing committee last week .
10 How much she 'd given him , cared for him , loved him , and now he was sitting in Eva 's house all cosy and radiant and looking forward to bed .
11 Anyone born on February 29 has a special reason for looking forward to Leap Years .
12 As well as soaking up the sun , Emma says she 's particularly looking forward to scuba diving and swimming in Stingray City .
13 OLD sailor Harry Ward is n't looking forward to bonfire night … because his latest drinking companion , Johnny the papier mache Guy , will be burned alive .
14 Wycombe were beaten by Bob Taylor 's 82nd-minute winner , and their disconsolate boss Martin O'Neill said : ‘ I was actually looking forward to extra-time because I was so sure we would win .
15 Maginnis sidesteps a question about whether the SDLP was interested in an internal settlement — ‘ We talk to other members of the SDLP and find them looking forward to participation .
16 Although she told me she was experiencing a certain amount of discomfort due to the condition of her appendix , and although she was not really looking forward to surgery and to the anaesthetic , none the less Kirsty seemed to have no more than the expected apprehension which would have been felt by anyone .
17 They 're probably really looking forward to winter now they know that .
18 I was bored with Aubagne and was looking forward to Orange .
19 The truth is , she would say , I 'm still looking forward to life beginning .
20 Successful and loving couple Jessie and Mark are looking forward to life in their new love-nest .
21 She was not looking forward to life at her uncle 's house .
22 Nicki Ware is looking forward to life without glasses .
23 Nicki Ware is looking forward to life without glasses .
24 They 're convinced Marc was looking forward to life , not trying to end it .
25 You 're sixty-one and have been looking forward to retirement .
26 Looking Forward to Retirement
27 He had worked hard all his life and had served his country for four years and was looking forward to retirement in the home he had worked for all his days .
28 Thus the two and a half years between his resignation and the outbreak of the Second World War brought Baldwin , the epitome of a man looking forward to retirement , disappointment and anticlimax rather than satisfactory afterglow .
29 We 're now looking forward to teacher appraisal and the opportunities that this will give s school staff to enhance their own future development .
30 I du n no , but I get the feeling everyone 's all looking forward to Christmas — you know , opening all the prezzies and stuff like that .
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