Example sentences of "forward to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the assembly 's main job is to enact a constitution , and that will require a two-thirds majority , the assembly members can look forward to much horse-trading . |
| 2 | The mail from home is now arriving fairly frequently and I look forward to each day hoping that a letter will arrive from Fiona . |
| 3 | She no longer looked forward to each day , so much had she come to dread her sister 's peremptory orders , the changes of routine , the explanatory telephone calls . |
| 4 | I am an avid reader of your magazine and eagerly look forward to each month 's issue . |
| 5 | Or preferable , to be honest ; part of me rather looked forward to such taunting . |
| 6 | We must look forward to such developments . |
| 7 | This , allied to the economic climate which has either led or forced many employees to retire early , means that more people than ever before can look forward to many years of active and purposeful life ahead , following their disengagement from full-time work . |
| 8 | I welcome the hon. Member for Manchester , Withington ( Mr. Bradley ) to the Opposition Front Bench and look forward to many a debate with him . |
| 9 | — who said he was beginning to enjoy his retirement and looking forward to many more years to come . |
| 10 | I look forward to many more exciting developments in the future . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll look forward to that . ’ |
| 12 | After all , our positive friend has so much to look forward to that there is no time to be indisposed . |
| 13 | Many of us look forward to that festive season and yet say after the event , ‘ I am glad that is over . ’ |
| 14 | Nor will she be able to look forward to that sense of completeness when her grieving is over which is experienced by the widow whose marriage was happy , and she will have some difficult emotional adjustments to make in order to come to terms with her situation , in which both love and life seem to have betrayed her . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's no doubt I can learn a lot about racing from Alain and I will be looking forward to that opportunity — but I have to say also that I am aiming to be my own man . ’ |
| 16 | I do want to tell you quite simply and sincerely how much I look forward to that . |
| 17 | He was to commence night shifts and he was not looking forward to that , not with the strange thoughts and worries crowding his mind . |
| 18 | They looked forward to that future time when God 's rule would be all over the earth . |
| 19 | I was looking forward to that ! ’ |
| 20 | After signing a four-year contract Jones , 27 , said : ‘ I see this as my apprenticeship towards management and supremo Sam Hammam told me to come back and look forward to that . |
| 21 | I look forward to that day — I 'm not in the big load carrier league ! |
| 22 | And in a funny sort of way he was looking forward to that . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , thank you , we shall look forward to that , ’ said Sarah politely . |
| 24 | The confidence with which I looked forward to that week and its promise of change , if not release , was undermined by nagging anxiety over the move itself . |
| 25 | ‘ I look forward to that . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm looking forward to that . |
| 27 | I for one am really looking forward to that . ’ |
| 28 | And in any event we rejoice that God is leading us all forward to that day when we shall be with him , when we will be with the one who makes all things new . |
| 29 | I feel now , erm just from talking to people , that there 's very much a feeling of er a torpor , erm a kind of hiatus of waiting for something to happen , waiting to be moved out , looking forward to that . |
| 30 | And I 'm really not looking forward to that one . |