Example sentences of "been [v-ing] forward [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt really devastated that we lost and for that reason I have been looking forward to playing in this event again . ’ |
| 2 | You 're sixty-one and have been looking forward to retirement . |
| 3 | He had been looking forward to showing it all to her . |
| 4 | Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand . |
| 5 | One moment he had been looking forward to a happy and wealthy retirement and now , minutes later , he was a condemned criminal with only a few hours left to live . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to meeting you too , ’ she answered , which was true . |
| 7 | If she had accepted him , she could have been looking forward to a child of her own now . |
| 8 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 9 | The time and effort demanded of them may put a strain on their relationship with a partner , who may have been looking forward to the years when they could be alone again as a couple . |
| 10 | I 've really been looking forward to flying — it will be my first time on a plane . ’ |
| 11 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 12 | And here is Edward , who has so been looking forward to a new playmate ! ’ |
| 13 | He had had a good day at the office and his head had not troubled him ; they seemed pleased with his work ; he had been looking forward to telling her about it over supper , and now this . |
| 14 | Ramsay knew her by repute only and had been looking forward to seeing her in person . |
| 15 | He had had only one more year to serve before he could have retired into civilian life , and both he and Isobel had been looking forward to this . |
| 16 | The result will be disappointing , not only for you but also for the bride who has been looking forward to keeping her flowers for ever . |
| 17 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 18 | He had been looking forward to ‘ getting away ’ as he put it , perhaps because it sounded more therapeutic than ‘ going on holiday ’ . |
| 19 | It was a birthday treat he had been looking forward to all week . |
| 20 | He had really been looking forward to seeing her tonight . |
| 21 | At long last you 've got a spare half hour to play that adventure you 've been looking forward to ! |
| 22 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 23 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
| 24 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 25 | I been looking forward to this all day . |
| 26 | Gradually , during his visits there , he began to tell her how much he had been looking forward to it , and confided how he would remember their ‘ walking the policies , ( which is what Delia Sutherland called a businesslike like across her property ) and sitting up late at night drinking brandy , discussing plans . |
| 27 | ‘ You know , Pip , ’ replied Joe , ‘ how we 've both been looking forward to working together . |
| 28 | He 's come here with a fixed idea , which he 's been looking forward to for half his life . |
| 29 | She had n't been looking forward to this session ; yet , deep down , there was a contrary twinge niggling at her sexuality that insisted she might enjoy it . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to this , ’ Stephen announced with a kind of childish glee . |