Example sentences of "[vb past] to look forward to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not given to self-pity , he heaved the problem out of his mind and tried to look forward to the challenges of tomorrow , but weariness overtook him and he retired to the shed and his mothy sleeping bag . |
| 2 | She did n't object ; she seemed to look forward to it , in fact . |
| 3 | He passed Responsions that June and began to look forward to the payments he would get for his journalism — especially for his ‘ prose poems ’ in the Speaker . |
| 4 | Shanti and Chris discovered in February that they were expecting a baby , There was tremendous excitement and we all began to look forward to this addition to the family . |
| 5 | I actually began to look forward to coming here , and my family could n't believe it ! |
| 6 | Mother liked him and began to look forward to his visits , and would greet him with : ‘ Hello , Mr Green . |
| 7 | She began to look forward to the following Wednesday — Who knew where they might end up ? |
| 8 | Her very longevity in office now appeared as a handicap to a party which needed to look forward to the 1990s not back to the battles of the 1980s . |
| 9 | Winnie grew to look forward to Jenny 's mornings more and more . |
| 10 | All the patients and staff had to look forward to at Exminster was death . |
| 11 | Now all he had to look forward to was burying her . |
| 12 | What I had to look forward to at best , so far as I could see , was marriage with a worthy young man such as Paolo , with whom I already felt myself to be in love , then children and a life of boring respectability in the Pianura Padana . |
| 13 | It did n't bother me , I knew I was engaged to be married , and in those days as soon as you were going to be married you left your job … that is the only thing we girls had to look forward to , getting married and going on our own , getting our bottom drawer together and things like that … |
| 14 | It was the form twos , the only thing that I , that they had to , they had to look forward to in the whole time they were there . |