Example sentences of "[verb] look forward to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only bright spot that LDDC has to look forward to — following a downturn in its profits this year — is the hope that the Department of the Environment will leave Westminster 's Marsham Street for Docklands in the near future . |
| 2 | Understandably people want to look forward to retirement , and for many people part of that dream is the rose-covered cottage or modern bungalow in the country or by the sea . |
| 3 | My younger constituents want to look forward to higher incomes , more spending power , home ownership , the accumulation of savings and investments and time to enjoy the fruits of their labour . |
| 4 | Not given to self-pity , he heaved the problem out of his mind and tried to look forward to the challenges of tomorrow , but weariness overtook him and he retired to the shed and his mothy sleeping bag . |
| 5 | She had come to look forward to the intervals between tenants , for at such times she would sit at the bedroom window that overlooked the street , which sloped swiftly to the main thoroughfare ; and guided by the landmarks of St Dominic 's church and , beyond that , St Ann 's , she could look over the chimney pots and catch a glimpse of the river gleaming between the busy traffic on it . |
| 6 | There can be no doubt that if Britain wants to look forward to a level of economic health even approaching that to which it has grown accustomed over the past 50 years , it must back Alvey 's proposals . |
| 7 | But for the first time , shortly before his death , he had stopped looking forward to going to work . |
| 8 | He 'd looked forward to being interviewed on a subject of some importance to him . |
| 9 | I 'd looked forward to it for ages , there 'd been a build-up but it was quite different for her . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ After all , even though Clive Kemp is locked up , you 're still making the trip you 'd looked forward to so much . ’ |
| 11 | He 'd looked forward to a comfortable retirement with his wife Audrey . |
| 12 | Those who get hooked have a lifetime of companionship and challenge to look forward to . |
| 13 | She did n't object ; she seemed to look forward to it , in fact . |
| 14 | I CAN NOT remember looking forward to a Tory conference with such relish . |
| 15 | I can remember looking forward to her arrival so that there would be three of us to play games . |
| 16 | As we approach the close of the next two thousand years , we are told to look forward to a new age — the Age of Aquarius , the water carrier . |
| 17 | As the Bristol teams , and others who may build on their examples , move forward in their research and their care for families , we can begin to look forward to a time when the tragedy of loss and anguish faced by famous people like Anne Diamond and Julie Walters , and thousands of other ordinary everyday people , may become a thing of the past . |
| 18 | look in early nineteen forty eight where we are , wh where the land reform process had taken the Communist Party tt and then we could begin to look forward to where policy was going to go from there in terms of the military , political , economic , ideological future and what I 'm going to do today to , to begin with anyway is , is to just consider where we are and where it is we 're gon na go and in a sense we could , it might be helpful to , to put ourselves back in a position of being the central committee again . |
| 19 | I do n't want her to end up with the sort of empty life I 've got to look forward to . |
| 20 | ‘ But that disappointment has gone and now I 've got to look forward to my time at Wimbledon . |
| 21 | He says they seem to regard it as a holiday and those birds that are over twelve months old have been through this before and seem to look forward to it |
| 22 | He passed Responsions that June and began to look forward to the payments he would get for his journalism — especially for his ‘ prose poems ’ in the Speaker . |
| 23 | Shanti and Chris discovered in February that they were expecting a baby , There was tremendous excitement and we all began to look forward to this addition to the family . |
| 24 | I actually began to look forward to coming here , and my family could n't believe it ! |
| 25 | Mother liked him and began to look forward to his visits , and would greet him with : ‘ Hello , Mr Green . |
| 26 | She began to look forward to the following Wednesday — Who knew where they might end up ? |
| 27 | I 'm beginning to look forward to it . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm beginning to look forward to the rest of the party . |
| 29 | We 're now beginning to look forward to the return home , which is little more than 5 weeks distant . |
| 30 | Resolutely , and determined to think no more than she could help about it , she opened her new copy of the Church Times which normally she would have looked forward to reading on her journey home . |