Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] forward to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd looked forward to being interviewed on a subject of some importance to him . |
| 2 | I 'd looked forward to it for ages , there 'd been a build-up but it was quite different for her . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ After all , even though Clive Kemp is locked up , you 're still making the trip you 'd looked forward to so much . ’ |
| 4 | He 'd looked forward to a comfortable retirement with his wife Audrey . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But a short fur jacket that had belonged to Faith , one which fitted Kathleen and which she had looked forward to wearing the following winter , that had gone from its polythene bag in Faith 's wardrobe . |
| 7 | AS A LONGSTANDING admirer of the poetry of Ted Hughes , I had looked forward to his prose book about Shakespeare . |
| 8 | I had looked forward to a leisurely ramble amongst the hills , since we had started early and the days were long . |
| 9 | This was what he had looked forward to throughout those long hard years of business life in Africa . |
| 10 | She had attended all the preparation classes available during pregnancy and had looked forward to giving birth naturally and effortlessly . |
| 11 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
| 12 | Jean had looked forward to a comfortable retirement after a lifetime of work . |
| 13 | It was nice to think he had looked forward to her company . |
| 14 | There was a war on , so you did n't question anything ; and if she was completely honest , there had even been times when she had looked forward to leaving home with a kind of guilty relief . |
| 15 | He had looked forward to a day in the sun , the simple admiration of colleagues , young scientists . |
| 16 | They had looked forward to seeing her but when she came they did n't know what to say . |
| 17 | I wanted to do the things John and I had looked forward to a year and a half ago , to travel as we had planned , to work abroad , have a family before too long . |
| 18 | He had looked forward to the long drive to Wales as an opportunity to push out the boundaries of their friendship , to gauge whether it might flourish in more normal circumstances than those in which it had begun . |
| 19 | She had looked forward to long satisfying talks with him , when she could tell all about her feelings and all the worries she had kept to herself for so long , but it was not easy for Joe to spend time alone with her . |
| 20 | Not when he had looked forward to a brief glimpse of Araminta jumping up and down in the sea in a bathing dress . |
| 21 | I had given up a good job to go there and when I came back after the adventure I had looked forward to for so long , I was very disappointed with myself . |
| 22 | Unlike most grown-ups , he was usually ready to stop whatever he was doing to sit down and talk , and Oliver , who had looked forward to a good gossip , was both puzzled and disappointed when his friend stood up , spat on his hands and went back to his digging . |
| 23 | Jetting across the Atlantic , after two years in America , she had looked forward to seeing her home town from the air , to retracing toy-sized , familiar landmarks , to marvelling at new unfamiliar ones . |
| 24 | ON SATURDAY I attended Castlereagh Park to watch my team play Linfield , a match which I had looked forward to seeing . |
| 25 | SMETANA and Dvorak — the RSNO 's programme had been tailor-made for Walter Weller and one had looked forward to a good wallow ; to tunes , and torrents of the particularly lush sounds he and his orchestra make together . |
| 26 | Even before the dispute began one woman had come forward to be a shop steward . |
| 27 | John had gone forward to where the batteries were kept . |