Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has already been on holiday to Portugal and is looking forward to moving to Cambridge to be near her daughters and grandchildren . |
| 2 | But I 'm looking forward to getting to Europe to promote it there . |
| 3 | He 's looking forward to travelling to Israel and Australia early next year to train for the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 . |
| 4 | On one day he would articulate his awareness that his life-span would be short ; on other days he would speak vibrantly to the issue of looking forward to returning to work , to what type of work he would be doing in the future , and so forth and so on . |
| 5 | Ruth and David Daniels were looking forward to returning to their house after a year working abroad . |
| 6 | Miss Perrie said later she was now looking forward to returning to the three-nights-a-week series . |
| 7 | But for the first time , shortly before his death , he had stopped looking forward to going to work . |
| 8 | ‘ But I am very disappointed as I was looking forward to going to the West Indies and seeing what promised to be a great series . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Anyway , I am looking forward to going to court — so there ! ’ |
| 10 | His frankly delighted countenance spurred her on to effort : ‘ I myself , ’ she heard herself saying , ‘ am very much looking forward to going to Japan for the first time . |
| 11 | I had been looking forward to going to what I called ‘ big school ’ . |
| 12 | The situation did n't improve much during the rest of the week and for the first time since Rachel had been working at OBEX she found herself not looking forward to going to work in the mornings . |
| 13 | The whole family was looking forward to going to the United States . |
| 14 | The PBAA has been lobbying the government for public television for over ten years and is looking forward to contributing to this inquiry process . |
| 15 | Paradoxically , I shall share that omission , refraining deliberately from referring to those many matters in order to keep my speech short . |
| 16 | Are you in the habit of eating or drinking immediately before going to bed ? |
| 17 | Slowly I aided upwards , thinking only of getting to the sling ; the rest would be a later worry . |