Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] forward to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gasped and leaned my back against the car while I buttoned the coat up under my chin , then I struggled forward to where the gate shook and rattled . |
| 2 | In no way could I possibly say otherwise , and I looked forward to tomorrow 's pig . |
| 3 | When they were well out of the way we made tracks for home and I looked forward to a quiet evening . |
| 4 | I looked forward to the banquet and wondered idly whether Swire Sugden would turn up and spoil it . |
| 5 | I looked forward to my time in Budapest . |
| 6 | I looked forward to the visit not only because visitors from Lord Darlington 's days are most rare now — Mr Farraday 's circle , naturally , being quite different from his lordship 's — but also because I presumed Mr Graham would accompany Sir James as of old , and I would thus be able to get his opinion on this question of bantering . |
| 7 | My beer was to be in a posh hotel where I was being treated for my birthday , and after the heaven of getting out of a T-shirt that was generating its own new species of life in the arm pits , and into a hot bath , I looked forward to discussing the day eagerly with my companion . |
| 8 | I looked forward to reaching my cell , because I was beginning to feel miserable and wanted to be alone and warm . |
| 9 | I now had the incentive to train even harder , and I looked forward to the outdoor season with considerable relish . |
| 10 | Lizzie used to lend me books which I looked forward to getting . |
| 11 | ‘ Because I looked forward to this Christmas , knowing you 'd be here . |
| 12 | I looked forward to these breaks in routine . |
| 13 | I was not sure whether I looked forward to living in London , where people like Wemmick accepted crime so calmly . |
| 14 | The confidence with which I looked forward to that week and its promise of change , if not release , was undermined by nagging anxiety over the move itself . |
| 15 | ‘ But I looked forward to going down the mine . |
| 16 | My father read to me in the evening , something I looked forward to enormously . |
| 17 | The more I thought about it , the more I looked forward to seeing this little known mountainous region , and I had every intention of penetrating at least as far as the Webi Shebeli river . |
| 18 | I looked forward to the time when I could speak well enough to talk to them . |
| 19 | I looked forward to discussing these problems with other teachers who shared my interest and concern . |
| 20 | But colleagues , five years ago I looked forward to the merger between G M B and Apex and predicted by the year two thousand there would be only four major unions in Britain , call them the four super unions . |
| 21 | I looked forward to the exam with dread . |
| 22 | The UDR 's low reputation among nationalists was reflected in the 1985 Anglo-Irish agreement , which looked forward to increasing the number of Catholics in the RUC but refrained from mentioning the UDR . |
| 23 | Often in NEP when thoughtful leaders at many levels became exasperated by the seemingly chaotic situations they saw about them , they dreamt of , and sometimes put through , as in Makarenko 's case , schemes which looked forward to the methods of the 1930s . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , there was little in the debate which looked forward to a bright new future . |
| 25 | The accords followed the signing a friendship and co-operation memorandum with Iran on Feb. 20 which looked forward to the development of closer political , economic and cultural ties . |
| 26 | If by the outbreak of the Second World War there existed a substantial body of opinion which looked forward to a fresh approach to economic and social problems , this increasingly influential consensus found its moment with the coming of the war and , in particular , in the atmosphere of national emergency after the evacuation of Dunkirk and the fall of France in 1940 . |
| 27 | Yet fifty years after Ramsey 's book a good judge of religious thought and literature during the twentieth century declared it to be an enduring masterpiece , which pointed forward to the road which Anglicans and not only Anglicans would follow . |
| 28 | She bent forward to the glistening flower , amid the cries of the others . |
| 29 | She walked forward to the edge of the plateau . |
| 30 | Vasilissa went stony cold with fear , for the eyes in all the skulls glared at her , but she walked forward to the hut and called out , " Hut ! |