Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] looked [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Dorothea had always believed in the idea of a new day , a new start , and always looked forward to something pleasurable in it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Students continued to experience severe difficulties in finding practical training opportunities in the UK and increasingly looked abroad for openings . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |