Example sentences of "[not/n't] [v-ing] forward to " in BNC.

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1 I was not looking forward to the packing .
2 She , Clarissa , was not looking forward to telephoning Lady Southdown , as she was bound to do , to thank her for a lovely evening .
3 Quite the reverse ; he was not looking forward to going back .
4 I AM NOT LOOKING FORWARD to tomorrow .
5 I am not looking forward to tomorrow .
6 He was not looking forward to the events which he knew lay ahead of him that morning , but he dismissed all such thoughts from his mind : pleasant and unpleasant , most tasks were equal to him now : he viewed them with the same cold dispassion — so many tasks in each day , so many days in each week , so many weeks in each year .
7 He is not looking forward to Christmas and Sophie 's second birthday on January 15 .
8 CAUSE ( Catholics against Unemployment and Social Evils ) have launched their annual appeal for hampers , for those who are not looking forward to Christmas .
9 He was to commence night shifts and he was not looking forward to that , not with the strange thoughts and worries crowding his mind .
10 The Wisharts , who lived in North London , were not looking forward to the long train journey one little bit ; being just after the war , the trains were run down , lacked essential maintenance and did n't keep very good time , so the Wisharts regarded the prospects of the journey with considerable misgivings .
11 Personally , I 'm just not looking forward to seeing some Roseanne Arnold look-alike corseted into a catsuit .
12 He was not looking forward to his return .
13 She was not looking forward to her coming out as an Italian girl , but she was determined not to let herself get married early .
14 She was not looking forward to life at her uncle 's house .
15 Anxiety made her speak more sharply than she had intended ; she was not looking forward to telling Madame Gebrec just why Officer Hassan was about to pay her another visit and it was a relief when Madame Delon answered her call .
16 Mary-Claude was sad to leave because , after spending much of the summer visiting her family with Sarah , she was not looking forward to an indefinite stay in Alabama , where she knew hardly anyone and where , after Beirut and Larnaca , the sheer difference in the scale of everything made her feel uneasy and exposed .
17 And I 'm really not looking forward to that one .
18 But tt I 'm not looking forward to it .
19 But she was not looking forward to the trip .
20 George was not looking forward to that interview .
21 Tomorrow she would hear his voice and she was not looking forward to it .
22 I had great pleasure in seeing that extension and I would be surprised if the hon. Gentleman had not visited it and was not looking forward to its opening .
23 But one part of pregnancy Jacqui is definitely not looking forward to is actually giving birth .
24 I may be an exception but , two years later and pregnant again , I am not looking forward to another birth .
25 The situation did n't improve much during the rest of the week and for the first time since Rachel had been working at OBEX she found herself not looking forward to going to work in the mornings .
26 ‘ I 'm not looking forward to that , are you ? ’
27 The sixty-four-year old singer 's wife Stella admits she 's not looking forward to having him home .
28 so I 'm not looking forward to breaking the news
29 I 'm not looking forward to is doing down the stairs .
30 Yes erm I 'm not looking forward to doing the cos they 've told me about it and he used to get headaches and
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