Example sentences of "looked forward to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had imagined that the doctor would be male ; she had looked forward to it even , a chance to pit herself against him , to resist , to overcome ; but when she was finally ushered into the consulting room she was greeted by a woman younger than herself . |
| 2 | quite looked forward to his love-making . |
| 3 | He 'd looked forward to being interviewed on a subject of some importance to him . |
| 4 | Dorothea had always believed in the idea of a new day , a new start , and always looked forward to something pleasurable in it . |
| 5 | But a short fur jacket that had belonged to Faith , one which fitted Kathleen and which she had looked forward to wearing the following winter , that had gone from its polythene bag in Faith 's wardrobe . |
| 6 | AS A LONGSTANDING admirer of the poetry of Ted Hughes , I had looked forward to his prose book about Shakespeare . |
| 7 | Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure . |
| 8 | Britain 's only racer , Mike Browne — owner of the Snow and Rock chain of outdoor clothing shops in London , actually looked forward to seeing some snakes en route . |
| 9 | I had looked forward to a leisurely ramble amongst the hills , since we had started early and the days were long . |
| 10 | This was what he had looked forward to throughout those long hard years of business life in Africa . |
| 11 | This man 's annual visit to the Police Court was eagerly looked forward to … a case of an unlicensed dog , or a chimney on fire … he was noted for his handcuffs ; they were , in fact , thought to be the ‘ finest ’ in the country — they were silver-plated . |
| 12 | I then said that I had always looked forward to going to the Board of Education . |
| 13 | What may have been looked forward to as a release may instead be an unexpected let-down , with retirement from work adding to the feeling of helplessness and lack of purpose . |
| 14 | She had attended all the preparation classes available during pregnancy and had looked forward to giving birth naturally and effortlessly . |
| 15 | She had n't really expected to see him at the funeral , though she had looked forward to the possibility with unseemly excitement considering the solemnity of the occasion . |
| 16 | When he was young , it had been one of the days he most looked forward to . |
| 17 | It may , according to circumstances and the personalities involved , be best to fix a regular mutually agreeable day for visiting , so that it is something to be looked forward to and prepared for . |
| 18 | A publication of village life compiled by a group of volunteers is issued quarterly and is eagerly looked forward to . |
| 19 | Jean had looked forward to a comfortable retirement after a lifetime of work . |
| 20 | Training in the choir gave me a fine knowledge of the Psalms , though I must say that none of us choir boys looked forward to the fifteenth evening of the month when the set psalm had no less than seventy-three verses . |
| 21 | Not now belonging to any Particular golf club , joining the Seniors was something I greatly looked forward to . |
| 22 | I had greatly looked forward to the meeting , hoping to hear words of wit and wisdom about the law , and perhaps a few good legal anecdotes . |
| 23 | It was nice to think he had looked forward to her company . |
| 24 | The weekly arrival of the Stornoway Gazette was something to be looked forward to , and the paper ( some of which was in Gaelic ) read from cover to cover . |
| 25 | There was a war on , so you did n't question anything ; and if she was completely honest , there had even been times when she had looked forward to leaving home with a kind of guilty relief . |
| 26 | The Pharisees looked forward to the coming of the Messiah . |
| 27 | Williams added : ‘ We have looked forward to coming here and found English rugby , on and off the field , is the greatest in the world in terms of organisation and attitude . ’ |
| 28 | Christmases were wonderful and greatly looked forward to by us both , but they were also tiring , and in early January , when all danger of further jollity from New Year had receded , we took ourselves off for a couple of days . |
| 29 | Some of Gram 's classic tear-in-my-beer stuff was clearly inspired by crooner George Jones , but the best of his songs are delivered with a shiver in the throat — as with Hank Williams and Jimmie Rogers , you could practically hear the hell-hounds on his tail as he addressed old girlfriends , southern vistas , and rotten townships and morbidly looked forward to his own druggy demise . |
| 30 | I 've never looked forward to new stuff from any band as much as I do from the Mondays . |