Example sentences of "look [adv] to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | City came under some pressure from Tring , but the home side never looked down to a sub front . |
| 2 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 3 | This old way , ‘ With an alien people clutching their gods ’ , looks back to the savage world which Eliot had been exploring , the world trapped in the ritual of ‘ birth , and copulation , and death ’ . |
| 4 | The dining room has a thirty foot wall of glass which enables guests to view the attractive landscaped garden and which looks out to a small patio for guests to enjoy in the summer . |
| 5 | Now with 10 years in top flight football behind him , he looks forward to a 32nd birthday in November as Northern Ireland wind up their World Cup campaign . |
| 6 | This looks forward to a future phase of professionalism . |
| 7 | It looks forward to a greater gift in the future while stressing a real gift in the present . |
| 8 | Brian looks forward to a fresh challenge |
| 9 | He particularly looks forward to the new community centre being built and , with a personal interest in sport , is keen that while still remaining a play area , the football field is developed and used for more formal games . |
| 10 | The broader , freer modelling in others , such as the Theseus and Amazon ( fig. 64 ) , looks forward to the classical style . |
| 11 | It also looks forward to the later poetry , where the ‘ spirit of the river ’ Mississippi becomes ‘ a strong brown god ’ , while the ‘ spirit of the sea ’ is that of the Atlantic of the New England coast of Eliot 's childhood . |
| 12 | The Lost Prince in particular belongs to a long tradition of didacticism in stones for the young while in its rapid pace and direct style it looks forward to the growing body of junior adventure stones of the late 1920s and the 1930s when children were to play a leading , active part in important , often great events . |
| 13 | His tough character keeps him in the house and looks forward to the awaiting adventure . |
| 14 | THE hard luck story to emerge from this year 's Martell Grand National surely can not come from David Stoddart , the man who sold Party Politics 48 hours before the big race and now looks forward to an agreed bonus of £15,000 on top of the original £80,000 price tag . |
| 15 | MOTORCYCLING : Harold Crooks looks forward to an action-packed weekend FANS SPOILT FOR CHOICE |
| 16 | John Ley looks forward to an international showpiece in which opening and closing ceremonies could rival the main event |
| 17 | Still , the two parties have moved towards the round-table talks that both want — although the government calls them a multi-party conference , whereas the ANC looks forward to an all-party congress , to be followed eventually by an elected constituent assembly . |
| 18 | Wordsworth looks forward to an ideal Welfare State where all are entitled to ‘ maintenance by law ’ feeling of degradation . |
| 19 | There seems nothing in the present arrangements to prevent two similarly disabled old people being in adjacent rooms in a nursing home , one of whom has her lifetime earnings bled down by ‘ community care ’ while the family of the other looks forward to an undiminished inheritance courtesy of the NHS . |
| 20 | I had looked forward to a leisurely ramble amongst the hills , since we had started early and the days were long . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Not when he had looked forward to a brief glimpse of Araminta jumping up and down in the sea in a bathing dress . |
| 24 | Jean had looked forward to a comfortable retirement after a lifetime of work . |
| 25 | He 'd looked forward to a comfortable retirement with his wife Audrey . |
| 26 | However , most businessmen looked forward to a speedy lifting of wartime controls . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Graham Hamilton looks ahead to the new hockey season |
| 30 | While tearing out the old central heating and installing new , they had daringly put in new patio windows looking on to the rear garden ( where they had done away with mouldy flowerbeds full of Michaelmas daisies and had built a tiled area complete with ornamental pool and a lion 's head which dripped water into the pool ) , as well as redecorating most of the house in a lighter , more ‘ eighties ’ , way . |