Example sentences of "looking forward [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much she 'd given him , cared for him , loved him , and now he was sitting in Eva 's house all cosy and radiant and looking forward to bed . |
| 2 | Anyone born on February 29 has a special reason for looking forward to Leap Years . |
| 3 | As well as soaking up the sun , Emma says she 's particularly looking forward to scuba diving and swimming in Stingray City . |
| 4 | OLD sailor Harry Ward is n't looking forward to bonfire night … because his latest drinking companion , Johnny the papier mache Guy , will be burned alive . |
| 5 | Wycombe were beaten by Bob Taylor 's 82nd-minute winner , and their disconsolate boss Martin O'Neill said : ‘ I was actually looking forward to extra-time because I was so sure we would win . |
| 6 | Maginnis sidesteps a question about whether the SDLP was interested in an internal settlement — ‘ We talk to other members of the SDLP and find them looking forward to participation . |
| 7 | Although she told me she was experiencing a certain amount of discomfort due to the condition of her appendix , and although she was not really looking forward to surgery and to the anaesthetic , none the less Kirsty seemed to have no more than the expected apprehension which would have been felt by anyone . |
| 8 | They 're probably really looking forward to winter now they know that . |
| 9 | I was bored with Aubagne and was looking forward to Orange . |
| 10 | The truth is , she would say , I 'm still looking forward to life beginning . |
| 11 | Successful and loving couple Jessie and Mark are looking forward to life in their new love-nest . |
| 12 | She was not looking forward to life at her uncle 's house . |
| 13 | Nicki Ware is looking forward to life without glasses . |
| 14 | Nicki Ware is looking forward to life without glasses . |
| 15 | They 're convinced Marc was looking forward to life , not trying to end it . |
| 16 | You 're sixty-one and have been looking forward to retirement . |
| 17 | Looking Forward to Retirement |
| 18 | He had worked hard all his life and had served his country for four years and was looking forward to retirement in the home he had worked for all his days . |
| 19 | Thus the two and a half years between his resignation and the outbreak of the Second World War brought Baldwin , the epitome of a man looking forward to retirement , disappointment and anticlimax rather than satisfactory afterglow . |
| 20 | We 're now looking forward to teacher appraisal and the opportunities that this will give s school staff to enhance their own future development . |
| 21 | I du n no , but I get the feeling everyone 's all looking forward to Christmas — you know , opening all the prezzies and stuff like that . |
| 22 | He is not looking forward to Christmas and Sophie 's second birthday on January 15 . |
| 23 | We were really looking forward to Christmas together as a family but now everything is ruined . |
| 24 | CAUSE ( Catholics against Unemployment and Social Evils ) have launched their annual appeal for hampers , for those who are not looking forward to Christmas . |
| 25 | But , like turkeys looking forward to Christmas , industry heavyweights queued up to be part of the action . |
| 26 | Let me put that question to the hundred women here , are you looking forward to Christmas ? |
| 27 | How do you withstand the the commercial pressures and the emotional pressures , the seventy three of you who are looking forward to Christmas ? |
| 28 | In Britain children are looking forward to Christmas and especially to the presents that Father Christmas brings . |
| 29 | I think it spoils it for children it makes them it seems too long for them they 're looking forward to Christmas . |
| 30 | By the time of the abolition measures of 1806 and 1807 abolitionists had failed to convince their opponents that they were not also looking forward to emancipation . |