Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] forward to " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | She did n't object ; she seemed to look forward to it , in fact . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I actually began to look forward to coming here , and my family could n't believe it ! |
6 | Mother liked him and began to look forward to his visits , and would greet him with : ‘ Hello , Mr Green . |
7 | She began to look forward to the following Wednesday — Who knew where they might end up ? |
8 | Her very longevity in office now appeared as a handicap to a party which needed to look forward to the 1990s not back to the battles of the 1980s . |
9 | Winnie grew to look forward to Jenny 's mornings more and more . |
10 | All the patients and staff had to look forward to at Exminster was death . |
11 | Now all he had to look forward to was burying her . |
12 | What I had to look forward to at best , so far as I could see , was marriage with a worthy young man such as Paolo , with whom I already felt myself to be in love , then children and a life of boring respectability in the Pianura Padana . |
13 | It did n't bother me , I knew I was engaged to be married , and in those days as soon as you were going to be married you left your job … that is the only thing we girls had to look forward to , getting married and going on our own , getting our bottom drawer together and things like that … |
14 | It was the form twos , the only thing that I , that they had to , they had to look forward to in the whole time they were there . |
15 | Out of the disarray into which the ECSC had fallen , the High Authority attempted to move forward to a general agreement on energy , but it was not until April 1964 that the Council of Ministers eventually agreed to a document . |