Example sentences of "[vb pp] forward to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had looked forward to a leisurely ramble amongst the hills , since we had started early and the days were long . |
| 2 | Jean had looked forward to a comfortable retirement after a lifetime of work . |
| 3 | He had looked forward to a day in the sun , the simple admiration of colleagues , young scientists . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Not when he had looked forward to a brief glimpse of Araminta jumping up and down in the sea in a bathing dress . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , most businessmen looked forward to a speedy lifting of wartime controls . |
| 8 | He 'd looked forward to a comfortable retirement with his wife Audrey . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Richard was a nice man , and ordinarily she would have quite looked forward to an evening with him . |
| 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 | Training in the choir gave me a fine knowledge of the Psalms , though I must say that none of us choir boys looked forward to the fifteenth evening of the month when the set psalm had no less than seventy-three verses . |
| 13 | I had greatly looked forward to the meeting , hoping to hear words of wit and wisdom about the law , and perhaps a few good legal anecdotes . |
| 14 | The Pharisees looked forward to the coming of the Messiah . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Balance c/f — Amounts which are carried forward to the next day 's tabular ledger . |
| 17 | Any money not required to meet chargeable expenditure in that year can not be carried forward to the next financial year ; it must be surrendered to the Consolidated Fund . |
| 18 | We should add by way of completeness that the provisions of sections 16 and 12 of the Act of 1873 have been carried forward to the modern day in more or less identical language , mutatis mutandis , to sections 18(3) and 34(1) of the Supreme Court of Judicature ( Consolidation ) Act 1925 and then , in more cursory language , to sections 10(3) ( b ) and 44(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 19 | So therefore you 'd have no liability but you 'd have unused capital allowances to be carried forward to the next year . |
| 20 | In fact , the consolidated balance sheet is published for little more than completeness : it gives the net debit balances and net credit balances for the organization to be carried forward to the new financial year . |
| 21 | This helps to explain why they do not publish consolidated opening statements : ‘ cost of the services of the organization ’ adds nothing to the fund operating statements ; the measure of performance has no meaning ; and , of course , there are no balances included to be carried forward to the new year which are not included in the balance sheet . |
| 22 | Advance corporation tax is to be carried forward to the extent that it is expected to be recovered in the foreseeable future . |
| 23 | Balances of both depreciation reserve and asset accounts are carried forward to the end of the useful life of the asset . |
| 24 | Balances of both depreciation reserve and asset accounts are carried forward to the end of the useful life of the asset . |
| 25 | If this was the case and that principle was carried forward to the Act then the duty under the Act would be unexcludable . |
| 26 | At the end of this time the rotor has moved forward to a position where the motor is producing negative torque . |
| 27 | I have waited hours here , usually on the north side , until called forward to the ferry boat and never regretted the delay ; anyone with an eye for impressive beauty will not regard time spent at Kylesku as wasted . |
| 28 | And I think they 're actually picking out a particular area for a report is is not necessarily good practice. , erm I think we can identify er those areas piece by piece we will go through them , they can be brought forward to a variety of areas . |
| 29 | Also in an ideal calendar , the Grand Slam Cup should be brought forward to the end of October , 4–5 weeks after the US Open , which would not only give the players a brief chance to relax but then to prepare for the ‘ tour finale ’ on an indoor surface . |
| 30 | The Japanese government has announced that the ban on the production and use of chlorofluorocarbons ( CFCs ) is to be brought forward to the end of 1995 , from the original target date of 2000 . |