Example sentences of "be [v-ing] forward to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from her anxiety over Jennifer 's meeting David again , Rachel had been looking forward to Family Day , but when she arrived for work the next morning the preparations were the furthest thing from her mind . |
| 2 | I 've really been looking forward to flying — it will be my first time on a plane . ’ |
| 3 | You 're sixty-one and have been looking forward to retirement . |
| 4 | Successful and loving couple Jessie and Mark are looking forward to life in their new love-nest . |
| 5 | How do you withstand the the commercial pressures and the emotional pressures , the seventy three of you who are looking forward to Christmas ? |
| 6 | In Britain children are looking forward to Christmas and especially to the presents that Father Christmas brings . |
| 7 | I think it spoils it for children it makes them it seems too long for them they 're looking forward to Christmas . |
| 8 | By the end of the evening I certainly wished the Kings Head was my local hotel restaurant , and I 'm looking forward to dining again at the Kings Head next time I have cause to visit Richmond . |
| 9 | Nicki Ware is looking forward to life without glasses . |
| 10 | Nicki Ware is looking forward to life without glasses . |
| 11 | I was bored with Aubagne and was looking forward to Orange . |
| 12 | They 're convinced Marc was looking forward to life , not trying to end it . |
| 13 | 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 . |