Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Captain looks constantly from side to side , ready to react to anything suspicious . |
| 2 | With Hewlett-Packard Co heading for $18,800m turnover this year and Fujitsu Ltd at around the $26,000m mark , while Digital Equipment Corp looks hopefully to Alpha to rocket it off its $14,000m-a-year launchpad , the contenders to take over leadership of the mainstream computer industry from IBM Corp are lining up — and a major new round of mergers and acquisitions could be on the way . |
| 3 | He was in turn replaced by Sydney Box who , while reinstating Black 's policy of maintaining a broad range of films and enlarging the script department , run by his wife Muriel , to develop original stories and train new writers , gave a twist to the company 's film production that looks more like deference to Rank 's demand for moral uplift than a full-hearted pursuit of the popular audience . |
| 4 | He looks forward with impatience to the time when he will be sent to Siberia ; his martyrdom ends with the beginning of his punishment " . |
| 5 | The Mail was firm in its forecast : the other papers only looked forward with relish to her eventual arrival . |
| 6 | Having looked forward with anticipation to the Bölkow , I wondered whether I might find it an anticlimax . |
| 7 | Looking keenly from side to side , she walked quickly along the path in the direction taken by the boys . |
| 8 | Then by looking prospectively from census to movement in the period 1971-74 , the project tests whether the characteristics and circumstances associated with movement in 1966-71 were also associated with movement after the census . |
| 9 | ‘ However , they are also looking forward with excitement to returning to Nepal . ’ |
| 10 | Under the leadership of Frau Gisela Klötzer and Frau Gabi Christ-Schröder , we have put together a team of students in their third semester of training who are looking forward with excitement to their performances in England . |
| 11 | The goals of the first transition phase , the first series of internal tariff reductions and measures designed to reduce the differences in the external tariffs of the Six , had been achieved without too much hardship or dispute , and the Commission was looking forward with confidence to shortening the planned duration of the second transition phase . |
| 12 | How I do need to look away from self to God , I can only find satisfaction : in him . |
| 13 | Lessons should be easy to follow ; that is , the teacher should find it easy to keep his place when he has to look frequently from coursebook to students . |
| 14 | Now that I had left the college dormitory I used to look fearfully from rime to time out of my window , expecting to see that gang of fascist students coming to beat me up . |
| 15 | With a professional director of cricket and coaching staff installed , Geoffrey Wheatcroft can look forward with confidence to seeing guileful bowlers called Patel or Singh playing alongside future Smiths and Joneses . |
| 16 | Our gold and dollar reserves are sound , and we can look forward with confidence to the future — provided that there is no change of Government . |
| 17 | And therefore I think this principle of anticipation i is also an equally valid er er principle that we , we should er er look forward in faith to the day when we celebrate , and on occasions we should be able to anticipate that unity . |
| 18 | This enabled him to look forward with confidence to continued improvements which would put the British plants back at the top of the performance league , where they used to be , and where they belonged . |
| 19 | Every Sunday morning when his wife woke him he soundly ( if silently ) cursed his adopted religion ; but the hell of getting up when all sensible creatures were lost in lovely sleep , was more than compensated for by the feeling of well-being after Mass , which made him beam and glow like an advertisement for salts — ‘ It 's Inner Cleanliness that counts ! ’ — ; and look forward with relish to eggs and bacon with a righteous sense of having earned them , and the lazy hours to follow . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's reached a stage lately where the players look forward with relish to away games . ’ |
| 21 | Erm , Mr Deputy Speaker , we on this side of the house look forward with confidence to the nineteen ninety four European elections whatever boundaries they take place on . |
| 22 | I look forward with interest to your reactions to this proposal . |
| 23 | We look forward with interest to what the pay review body will report in January . |
| 24 | Jackson looked nervously from Bonanza to me . |
| 25 | The young man looked carefully from side to side . |