Example sentences of "[vb infin] forward to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I shall look forward to Saturday evening then . ’ |
| 2 | He continued : ‘ Assuming current market conditions do not deteriorate further , the group , with conservative borrowings , a prime land bank and a good forward sales position can look forward to another year of growth . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We shall look forward to seeing the report and if there is new data that warrants investigation . ’ |
| 4 | The documents indicate that shareholders can look forward to annual rises above the rate of inflation ranging from 3.2 per cent in the case of Severn Trent to 5.5 per cent for Northumbrian , North West and Yorkshire . |
| 5 | The battalion could now look forward to returning to Werl and the preparations for firing camp , when the Warriors ' guns could be fired on the range . |
| 6 | ‘ We shall look forward to it . ’ |
| 7 | Torquay , though , can now look forward to their home tie against West Ham when the seven-league boot will be on the other foot . |
| 8 | Now wives and Woopies can look forward to a happy New Year . |
| 9 | Assuming that the start of the current recession ( which on January 2nd was officially acknowledged , at last ) was some time in October , investors can look forward to the Dow tumbling to 1,800 by the late autumn of 1991 . |
| 10 | With Isaac God can look forward to a world over which he can again clap his hands in delight . |
| 11 | Later on , after a warm bath and enveloped in one of Aunt Bedelia 's flannelette nightgowns , I began to relax and look forward to the Jubilee . |
| 12 | We need a government that will help ensure that across the world we can look forward to peace and progress with stability . |
| 13 | ‘ We can not look forward to holidays , ’ Isabel said . |
| 14 | Olivia did not look forward to the interview . |
| 15 | ‘ We can look forward to working with France in international efforts to ensure that the temporary suspension of testing by two of the five nuclear weapons states — Russia and France — becomes permanent , and that the other three join them . ’ |
| 16 | One or two mentioned that they would look forward to the course and that if they were not going to an ATB event they would be out anyway . |
| 17 | I wrote to the effect that I did indeed look forward to life with him , and that my guidelines for living were the same as his . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll look forward to that . ’ |
| 19 | I shall look forward to seeing the first edition , then . |
| 20 | Whichever happened , it was clear that the citizens of Somerset could look forward to a radioactive legacy on their coastline for more than many of their lifetimes . |
| 21 | In fact , participants of this good natured and innocent fun can look forward to anything up to one year of free accommodation , bed and breakfast and security provided . |
| 22 | A late Victorian at sixty could look forward to scarcely a dozen more years of life ; a contemporary sixty-year-old man can expect almost twenty more years and a woman even more . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , I shall look forward to it , Stevens . |
| 24 | Many people who have reached this stage in their infection can look forward to no further trouble from their disease and will probably die of old age or some other condition unrelated to their syphilis . |
| 25 | You can look forward to some sort of land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of a view and , let's face it , the mountain will still be there when you come back . |
| 26 | While the fundamentals of caddying may not have changed since Skip Daniels and Gene Sarazen strode the Prince 's links , the financial aspect has : whereas a caddie in the 1930s might have earned only a pittance for sharing an Open success , the modern-day caddie earns a healthy basic wage on the European tour , and can look forward to a percentage of the winnings . |
| 27 | ‘ We shall look forward to seeing you , ’ said Harold . |
| 28 | So , by staying alive until that date , you can look forward to a substantial return on your investment — while remaining safe in the knowledge that , in the event of your death during that period , or subsequently , your family will be protected against any financial problems that might lie ahead . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , the table opposite will give you some idea of what to expect : for example , a man aged 30 investing just £25 a month could look forward to a cheque for £63,400 on his 65th birthday — with another £19,400 for his family if he died at the age of 80 . |
| 30 | Seeing the merit of paying in the highest monthly premium ( £35 ) , they can each look forward to a tax-free payment at the age of 65 — £37,500 for Alec and £37,800 for his wife — which will help bring the retirement home of their dreams well within their reach . |