Example sentences of "[vb -s] forward to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writing of many types may assist a reader who looks forward to an encounter with a work of art . |
| 2 | Luxembourg thanks ( l-r ) Sqn Ldr R Druitt , Flt Lts P Jackson and D Mannion , F/Sgt J Dearden and Flt Lt E Billings , and looks forward to their next visit . |
| 3 | — ‘ in thought I see my past madness ’ ; these two cries are from the Arnaut Daniel speech ending Purgatorio XXVI , where the poet condemned to the circle of lust prays for the hearer 's consideration and looks forward to the release from the to tortures meted out to the lustful . |
| 4 | It also looks forward to the later poetry , where the ‘ spirit of the river ’ Mississippi becomes ‘ a strong brown god ’ , while the ‘ spirit of the sea ’ is that of the Atlantic of the New England coast of Eliot 's childhood . |
| 5 | Still , the two parties have moved towards the round-table talks that both want — although the government calls them a multi-party conference , whereas the ANC looks forward to an all-party congress , to be followed eventually by an elected constituent assembly . |
| 6 | While Moses looks forward to the ‘ good ’ to come , their minds are fixed on the ‘ evil ’ of the present . |
| 7 | Lisa Stansfield looks forward to the Eighties |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Their business , a factory making patio doors for the trade , was initially based in Newton Abbot because of economical site and labour costs ; now Peter Aldam looks forward to a mere 30-minute commute there along the soon-to-be finished A30 extension . |
| 10 | John Ley looks forward to an international showpiece in which opening and closing ceremonies could rival the main event |
| 11 | Although her poetry often speaks of ill health and many times looks forward to the poet 's early death , she died of measles , a sudden illness which she was too weak to withstand . |
| 12 | He concludes that the event demonstrates only the ‘ growing pains of a young republic ’ which ‘ after 5000 years of conquerors … looks forward to a prosperous and peaceful future . ’ |
| 13 | Sealink Stena Line looks forward to successfully serving the Northern Ireland travel , freight and tourism markets for many more years . |
| 14 | This chapter looks forward to the ‘ new wave ’ and the new decade , but it would be imprudent to plunge into precepts without dwelling on the departing decade of the 1980s . |
| 15 | In his diaries he looks forward to future success , but it was his artistic success that he sought before financial security . |
| 16 | He looks forward to the day when home computers are so widespread that the price for software will drop by 75 per cent . |
| 17 | Indeed the Director of Kenya 's Institute of Education looks forward to a time when a syllabus may be devised which , in addition to a national ‘ core ’ , has specific defined areas where programmes devised at district or local levels will be developed and implemented . |
| 18 | ‘ You know how Gran looks forward to seeing us . |
| 19 | Not only does the Menorcan CC hope to encourage the development of cricket in the Balearics , but looks forward to welcoming British touring sides to the island in the near future . |
| 20 | The old rascal is still very much alive and kicking — he is 330 years old on 9 May this year — and looks forward to several more centuries of roguery yet ! |
| 21 | But it is also a hotel which actively looks forward to the future . |
| 22 | He particularly looks forward to the new community centre being built and , with a personal interest in sport , is keen that while still remaining a play area , the football field is developed and used for more formal games . |
| 23 | Campaign TV John Dugdale looks forward to the night of the swingometer |
| 24 | Wordsworth looks forward to an ideal Welfare State where all are entitled to ‘ maintenance by law ’ feeling of degradation . |
| 25 | In it , Elvis tells ‘ Dear Liz ’ how much he appreciates receiving her letters and looks forward to seeing her during a trip she planned to America in December . |
| 26 | It occurred to him that he had reached the age when a man looks forward to his pleasures less keenly than in youth but is disproportionately aggrieved when his plans are upset . |
| 27 | COMPAQ LOOKS FORWARD TO STRONG SECOND QUARTER |
| 28 | Responding to concerns raised by Dell Computer Corp 's fiscal first quarter report ( CI No 2,176 ) , Compaq Computer Corp says it looks forward to reporting a strong second quarter : ‘ With the first signs of economic recovery in Europe and the surge in demand generated by the introductions of our powerful new 486SL-based Compaq Contura and Compaq LTE Lite notebook families in March and this month , we see a strong second quarter , ’ it said . |
| 29 | Aegina grew 700–800 tonnes of them in 1992 , nearly twice as much as in 1982 , and in principle looks forward to growing twice as much again by the late 1990s . |
| 30 | It sold more $500,000-plus machines in fourth quarter 1992 than the three previous quarters combined and looks forward to being able to use Pentium in its machines , because it says the new Intel Corp chip will reduce the gap between its machines and RISC in batch processing work . |