Example sentences of "look [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Eleanor Pitman ( Kent ) one of the first Qualified Teachers , Eleanor looks forward to spending and enjoying more time with her family . |
| 3 | LEFT : Cute kid John Kocinski looks forward to lunch |
| 4 | It may appear curiously anachronistic to include a chapter on " hearing children read " in a book which looks forward to language and learning in an age of computers and mechanisation . |
| 5 | You know I mean always looked forward to champagne but er there we are . |
| 6 | Unionists therefore looked forward to domination of the government : but this never happened . |
| 7 | The answer to the first of those three points is that the Home Secretary will shortly be publishing his promised and much looked forward to paper on criminal prevention . |
| 8 | ‘ I have very much looked forward to retirement , and , like many others , I find that I have even less time than before to pursue all that I would like to do , ’ Dr Florin said . |
| 9 | He then leaned forward and , looking straight to camera , continued : ‘ Except that little weasel Fletcher . |
| 10 | Looking neither to right nor left , the Emperor rose and walked firmly towards the door followed by the Empress . |
| 11 | Ruth walked through the kitchen and ascended the back stairs , looking neither to right nor left , afraid that her face might give her away . |
| 12 | His parents say he was happy and looking ahead to University . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Anyone born on February 29 has a special reason for looking forward to Leap Years . |
| 15 | As well as soaking up the sun , Emma says she 's particularly looking forward to scuba diving and swimming in Stingray City . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They 're probably really looking forward to winter now they know that . |
| 21 | I was bored with Aubagne and was looking forward to Orange . |
| 22 | The truth is , she would say , I 'm still looking forward to life beginning . |
| 23 | Successful and loving couple Jessie and Mark are looking forward to life in their new love-nest . |
| 24 | She was not looking forward to life at her uncle 's house . |
| 25 | Nicki Ware is looking forward to life without glasses . |
| 26 | Nicki Ware is looking forward to life without glasses . |
| 27 | They 're convinced Marc was looking forward to life , not trying to end it . |
| 28 | You 're sixty-one and have been looking forward to retirement . |
| 29 | Looking Forward to Retirement |
| 30 | 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 . |