Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] forward to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now David did n't want any part of it , and she 'd been so looking forward to their sharing in the discoveries . |
| 2 | My colleagues and I in Wales Link were greatly looking forward to her visit , planned over a period of 18 months . |
| 3 | Greatly looking forward to his acceptance , the pleasure of his company , and more besides . |
| 4 | For another two and a half years I survived the mosquitoes and grew to love the people and was just looking forward to my first home leave when a letter from the Superior General appointed me to Vocations Director in the South of England ! |
| 5 | His wife Val contributes a postscript in which she reveals , rather wanly , that she is still looking forward to her honeymoon , postponed because of a rugby match . |
| 6 | After 2 defeats in a row at the Manor , Oxford United are probably looking forward to their trip to St Andrews to play bottom club , Birmingham . |
| 7 | Tomba is clearly looking forward to his first race in Italy since winning a gold and a silver medal at the Winter Olympics in Albertville last year , to add to two golds he took in 1988 . |
| 8 | By the time they 'd parked the car and were hurrying towards the station platform , the little girl 's enthusiasm had soothed her tattered nerves , and she was really looking forward to their day together in London . |
| 9 | With the money safe in his pocket , he felt a strange and most unfamiliar feeling of pleased anticipation stirring inside him ; he was really looking forward to his appointment with Nutty , to find out what it felt like to ride a horse . |
| 10 | ‘ We 're really looking forward to your coming , ’ I could hear him shouting . |
| 11 | I was really looking forward to my breakfast . |
| 12 | It was quite clear they had no real feeling for their mother , and were almost looking forward to her death . |
| 13 | He was in fact almost looking forward to his ride on Bones . |
| 14 | A YOUNG wife happily looking forward to her first baby was hung by her cheating husband just two weeks before the child was due , a court heard yesterday . |