Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [adv] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She will be delighted , ’ Alida Thorne said , ‘ she 's so looking forward to a visitor . |
| 2 | THESE four happy boys were eagerly looking forward to a fun-filled family Christmas . |
| 3 | ‘ Interesting point ! ’ remarked Morse , suddenly turning again to a now distinctly uncomfortable-looking Stratton . |
| 4 | I was aware of the fact that there had been what seemed like 20 people working in the office and then it was suddenly dwindling down to a skeleton staff . |
| 5 | Erm , well what your mum and dad said to me is that he gets very worried , het up , really tensed about doing things , that 's going , you know , things that are gon na happen , like just driving down to a different place , er and he get 's himse himself so het up , so worried , he makes himself ill , I think that 's what 's happened |
| 6 | This is not just climbing on to a fashionable band-wagon , it is facing up to the fact that for the first time in the history of our science we are approaching a general theory of the earth . |
| 7 | The result is naturally a concentration of erosion on the headlands , thus leading ultimately to a smoothing out of the coastline if it is of one rock type . |
| 8 | French windows stood open leading on to a strip of highly polished , red tiled terrace . |
| 9 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 10 | But this this nervous thing is a very primitive instinct and I 'm just coming up to a word I never can pronounce so you 're going to have to help me with this one . |
| 11 | It was like hanging on to a wriggly eel . |
| 12 | Toddlers often rose on their toes , held their legs stiffly , and rocked back and forth holding on to a piece of furniture or onto the parent . |
| 13 | Occasionally they walk upright along a branch , grasping it with their toes but always holding on to a branch above their heads with their hands . |
| 14 | Keep climbing up the fell side , gradually bearing right to a small cairn at the end of the ridge where several paths meet . |
| 15 | In the open intellectual milieu where Catholic exegetes and theologians now move among colleagues of other traditions of faith or of none , the traditional term ‘ hermeneutics ’ ( the art and the principles of interpretation ) has been taken over for a mode of philosophical discussion so technical that its products are usually baffling even to a well-educated reader . |
| 16 | And she adds , ‘ Sometimes I even get the feeling that he 's deliberately working up to a smack ; almost testing me out , pushing me to the limit ! ’ |
| 17 | This rapid response is followed by a region of creep , A to B , initially fast but eventually slowing down to a constant rate represented by the section B to C. When the stress is removed the instantaneous elastic response OA is completely recovered and the curve drops from C to D , i.e. the distance . |
| 18 | The only other major commodity which is based on lump sum rates regardless of quantities used , is water and the Water Companies are slowly moving over to a metered system in order to improve the discipline of use . |
| 19 | She won a case of wine and is also looking forward to a super weekend break in Champagne , France , courtesy of Arblaster & Clarke . |
| 20 | President of ERC , Richard H. Rau is also looking forward to a successful partnership . |
| 21 | It was her wedding picture , taken almost seven years ago , a picture of two blissful nineteen-year-old faces , confidently looking forward to a future together , a future that was destined never to be . |
| 22 | The revenue obtained a huge sum of money which they had no right to demand and they are now hanging on to a very large amount of interest which they have no moral right to retain . |
| 23 | ‘ Quite honestly — and who wants to celebrate becoming twenty-six ? — I 'm really looking forward to a long soak in the bath , and then putting my feet up in front of the TV , ’ she added firmly . |
| 24 | Dave says he 's really looking forward to a nice day |
| 25 | Bantam Press , celebrating the achievement by Jilly Cooper 's The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous ( £14.99 ) of a subscription of 70,000 copies , the company 's highest ever for a hardback novel , is now looking forward to a further boost for the book when the CD and cassette single ‘ Lysander 's Theme ’ is released on 10th May . |
| 26 | Friends for life , they 're now looking forward to a cruising holiday together in the Fiords — all expenses paid by Norwegian TV . |
| 27 | A small market town which has lived off the land for centuries is now looking forward to a high-tec future . |
| 28 | Speaking at his home in Godalming , Surrey , he added : ‘ It has been a hard few months and I am now looking forward to a break and spending some time with my family . ’ |
| 29 | Speaking at his home in Godalming , Surrey , he added : ‘ It has been a hard few months and I am now looking forward to a break and spending some time with my family . ’ |
| 30 | Tatyana is now looking forward to a week in Las Vegas this summer modelling shoes , while Yelena has work lined up in Italy . |