Example sentences of "been [verb] forward [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much unpaid Poll Tax has been carried forward into this year 's budget ? |
| 2 | No Community Charge arrears have been carried forward into this year 's budget . |
| 3 | He had had only one more year to serve before he could have retired into civilian life , and both he and Isobel had been looking forward to this . |
| 4 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 5 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 6 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 7 | I been looking forward to this all day . |
| 8 | She had n't been looking forward to this session ; yet , deep down , there was a contrary twinge niggling at her sexuality that insisted she might enjoy it . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to this , ’ Stephen announced with a kind of childish glee . |
| 10 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
| 11 | Oh , I have been looking forward to this evening … ’ |
| 12 | Inspector Naseby of all people , who had clearly been looking forward to this moment . |
| 13 | It so happens Kelly and I have been looking forward to this weekend , and I guarantee that men will play no part in it at all . ’ |
| 14 | You 've been looking forward to this wedding for days now . |
| 15 | Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks . |
| 16 | Many and varied reasons have been put forward for this basic element of practice , but they can be summarized under three headings : ideological reasons ( the right of a person to decide for himself or the recognition of this as an existential reality ) , educational and developmental reasons ( participation as part of human growth and development , for the individual , the family , the group , the organization or the community ) , and political reasons ( participation as a means to enfranchisement and empowerment , an antidote to alienation ) ( Ross , 1960 ; Bernstein , 1960 ; Katan , 1980 ; Freedberg , 1989 ; Rothman , 1989 ) . |
| 17 | The use of propaganda to make this behaviour unfashionable again has been suggested ( Stanley 1969 ) , but no health education programme has ever been put forward to this purpose and it is difficult to know whether such an approach would be feasible . |
| 18 | They were all the more tedious because they were reduced , for all practical purposes , to one question : why , after everything that has been put forward in this court , have you still made no attempt to visit 42b Milvain Street ? |