Example sentences of "forward to [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young academic coolly eyed the embattled farmer and , commenting upon the destruction wrought upon the fen , looked forward to its return to wilderness after the war , so that it could act as a buffer for the nature reserve of Wicken Fen against the farmed land : |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It collects these flakes with the brush near the end of its hind legs and passes them forward to its mouth where it kneads them with saliva . |
| 4 | Infantrymen are ferried forward to their positions during an exercise in BErlin . |
| 5 | And now David did n't want any part of it , and she 'd been so looking forward to their sharing in the discoveries . |
| 6 | The other important contribution that the association made was to establish a bi-annual show , a show which became the talk of the art scene in the city to such an extent that the members could look forward to their work being seen , in the prestigious rooms of the Academy of Arts , written about and even bought by the cultural who included the Kaiser , ( his taste was somewhat shaky , but he was the Kaiser ) . |
| 7 | Tiptree spokesman Tim Huxtable said that they were looking forward to their day out , and that Peter Richardson , Michael Beckett , Rob Hadgraft , Gerry Madden , Liz James and the others were keen to make an impression . |
| 8 | By the time they 'd parked the car and were hurrying towards the station platform , the little girl 's enthusiasm had soothed her tattered nerves , and she was really looking forward to their day together in London . |
| 9 | Torquay , though , can now look forward to their home tie against West Ham when the seven-league boot will be on the other foot . |
| 10 | After 2 defeats in a row at the Manor , Oxford United are probably looking forward to their trip to St Andrews to play bottom club , Birmingham . |
| 11 | She would find herself looking forward to their meetings and to their conversations even if they were slightly strange sometimes . |
| 12 | Fans of the Fab Four of the 90s need not fret ( guitar pun there ) , the band are looking forward to their date at the Empire in August . |
| 13 | We look forward to their return in the autumn , their enthusiasm renewed ready to tackle whatever lies ahead . |
| 14 | I agree that the colleges are looking forward to their independence and to expanding the opportunities for further education available to our young people . |
| 15 | So we 've got this group of people who are and just retired , they 're sixty-five and have just retired , and they 're looking forward to their pension le lo losing completely in two-and-a-half years time unless something 's done about it . |
| 16 | I am disappointed that none of those hon. Members is in his place , because I had been looking forward to their contributions and should have liked to address the odd remark to them , but I shall do that in any event . |
| 17 | I was n't going to make the same mistake as my parents , forever denying themselves what they wanted now so that they could look forward to their retirement with complete peace of mind . |
| 18 | And he was n't alone amongst the instructors who felt this way : Jack Bisley , Sam Temple , and Amos Bernstein , they all admitted that they hated it ; but Angus McBride and Len looked forward to their trips as if they were half-day school holidays . |
| 19 | It was , however , becoming possible to foresee local initiatives developing into a network which , although unlike the railways was never to become a truly national system of transport , would link the main industrial regions back to their sources of supply and , to a lesser extent , forward to their outlets . |
| 20 | Abbey Donalds spoke to Jeffery and Bungle who were looking forward to their stay in Oxford . |
| 21 | I trust you will pass this to the appropriate committee and look forward to their comments . |
| 22 | It was nice to think he had looked forward to her company . |
| 23 | Despite a minority of hecklers in the crowd , Toni Childs was well appreciated by the audience who I 'm sure are looking forward to her return . |
| 24 | ‘ Mum says she always looked forward to her grandchildren , because of me being an only child . |
| 25 | Her influence on the girl was soon considerable and Constance looked forward to her visits to the grim and rambling Gothic building . |
| 26 | Alyssia ended up looking forward to her lunch with André far more eagerly than she had originally thought possible . |
| 27 | She was n't looking forward to her turn . |
| 28 | I even looked forward to her sofa-bed and duvet , because it beats the hell out of Victor 's rubber lilo . |
| 29 | The nurse ( just twenty-two and looking forward to her holiday in Greece ) checked my hand for bits of glass and then applied an impression splint . |
| 30 | ‘ I value Elsbeth 's high standing among authors and agents , ’ commented Mr Trewin , ‘ and look forward to her contribution not only to Weidenfeld but also to the Orion Group as a whole . ’ |