Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] forward to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it is not unusual for someone recently retired ( and perhaps looking forward to it ) to find themselves coping with sharply increasing dependency of their parents and unable to enjoy the period of active leisure which they were anticipating . |
| 2 | Beforehand they were tense and quiet , and no doubt very frightened if the truth were known , but on their return , if we saw them at all , they would be relaxed and only looking forward to bacon and eggs in the Mess — and then bed . |
| 3 | I 'm real excited , as you can imagine , and greatly looking forward to the adventure . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yesterday Leslie showed he was full of life again , sporting a blue baseball cap and obviously looking forward to spending the day with his five children and 61-year-old wife Jean . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | With this in mind , I applied for a post-registration course , and eagerly looked forward to benefiting from a new , challenging and mature approach to nurse education . |
| 8 | I am an avid reader of your magazine and eagerly look forward to each month 's issue . |
| 9 | Saturday brought the course to close with an enjoyable ‘ altogether ’ in the gym , then once mor we made our ways home stimulated , refreshed and already looking forward to next year . |
| 10 | I was relieved , rather pleased with myself , and genuinely looking forward to entering a new , more grown-up phase of my life . |
| 11 | Dorothea had always believed in the idea of a new day , a new start , and always looked forward to something pleasurable in it . |
| 12 | She enjoys hiking and walking in her spare time , and also looks forward to her annual skiing expedition . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | THE hard luck story to emerge from this year 's Martell Grand National surely can not come from David Stoddart , the man who sold Party Politics 48 hours before the big race and now looks forward to an agreed bonus of £15,000 on top of the original £80,000 price tag . |
| 15 | Now initially er starting er starting May er for suppliers to be the adverts for from the beginning of the summer holidays and then looking forward to the Christmas trade . |
| 16 | Creggan saw Minch staring intently out into this nothingness , and then drop forward to the front of her cage and look fixedly at the benches , and at the harmless litter bin which Woil had used as a stance during his brief escape . |
| 17 | And then look forward to a winter date with the man in the flesh at the Ulster Hall on October 19 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As I tried to think about what we should do , the day began to represent something we could work towards and almost look forward to , at a time when Waite 's kidnap had left us nothing to hope for . |