Example sentences of "[vb pp] forward to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Resolutely , and determined to think no more than she could help about it , she opened her new copy of the Church Times which normally she would have looked forward to reading on her journey home . |
| 2 | There was a war on , so you did n't question anything ; and if she was completely honest , there had even been times when she had looked forward to leaving home with a kind of guilty relief . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But a short fur jacket that had belonged to Faith , one which fitted Kathleen and which she had looked forward to wearing the following winter , that had gone from its polythene bag in Faith 's wardrobe . |
| 5 | Britain 's only racer , Mike Browne — owner of the Snow and Rock chain of outdoor clothing shops in London , actually looked forward to seeing some snakes en route . |
| 6 | They had looked forward to seeing her but when she came they did n't know what to say . |
| 7 | What he most looked forward to seeing were others of his kind with whom he could fly and from whom he would learn things . |
| 8 | Jetting across the Atlantic , after two years in America , she had looked forward to seeing her home town from the air , to retracing toy-sized , familiar landmarks , to marvelling at new unfamiliar ones . |
| 9 | ON SATURDAY I attended Castlereagh Park to watch my team play Linfield , a match which I had looked forward to seeing . |
| 10 | Williams added : ‘ We have looked forward to coming here and found English rugby , on and off the field , is the greatest in the world in terms of organisation and attitude . ’ |
| 11 | She had attended all the preparation classes available during pregnancy and had looked forward to giving birth naturally and effortlessly . |
| 12 | I then said that I had always looked forward to going to the Board of Education . |
| 13 | For whatever reason , Neil , who had almost looked forward to relieving his body 's urgent demands — he seemed to have been continent for years , and McAllister 's arrival in Vetch Street had most inconveniently revived his dormant senses — found that he was disgusted with himself most of all . |
| 14 | Benelux , for instance , had already moved forward to setting up a low common external tariff with no internal tariffs . |