Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] forward to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Jaffery knew the building as well as anyone and I much looked forward to going around it with someone who had studied it for so many years . |
| 2 | By nature an exhibitionist , I greatly looked forward to it . |
| 3 | She no longer looked forward to each day , so much had she come to dread her sister 's peremptory orders , the changes of routine , the explanatory telephone calls . |
| 4 | His candidacy thus went forward to a second round run-off scheduled for June 3 , in which his opponent would be an unexpected late entrant Alberto Keinya Fujimori , 52 , of the newly formed Change 90 ( Cambio 90 ) movement who received 24.62 per cent of the vote . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Mum says she always looked forward to her grandchildren , because of me being an only child . |
| 7 | I always looked forward to the fortnights we spent in Northumberland . |
| 8 | Now although Morag liked both the summer and the winter , there was one other time she always looked forward to and that was the spring — time when the snow melted and green leaves began to appear again on all the trees and hedges . |
| 9 | She who usually looked forward to the telephone ringing , had become nervous even of that . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I even looked forward to her sofa-bed and duvet , because it beats the hell out of Victor 's rubber lilo . |
| 12 | He then moved forward to the person on the ground and handcuffed his hands behind his back . |
| 13 | The case then went forward to the European Court of Human Rights . |
| 14 | I then went forward to the man on the floor er , handcuffed him and stepped back . |
| 15 | A few weeks before it would have seemed inconceivable that she should ever see Hilda again , but now she almost looked forward to the meeting . |
| 16 | We never looked forward to going there . ’ |