Example sentences of "be [verb] forward to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Balance c/f — Amounts which are carried forward to the next day 's tabular ledger . |
| 2 | Balances of both depreciation reserve and asset accounts are carried forward to the end of the useful life of the asset . |
| 3 | Balances of both depreciation reserve and asset accounts are carried forward to the end of the useful life of the asset . |
| 4 | We should add by way of completeness that the provisions of sections 16 and 12 of the Act of 1873 have been carried forward to the modern day in more or less identical language , mutatis mutandis , to sections 18(3) and 34(1) of the Supreme Court of Judicature ( Consolidation ) Act 1925 and then , in more cursory language , to sections 10(3) ( b ) and 44(1) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 5 | The former Community Charge was payable on a variety of days depending on the payment method used and this procedure has been carried forward to Council Tax . |
| 6 | What may have been looked forward to as a release may instead be an unexpected let-down , with retirement from work adding to the feeling of helplessness and lack of purpose . |
| 7 | I felt really devastated that we lost and for that reason I have been looking forward to playing in this event again . ’ |
| 8 | You 're sixty-one and have been looking forward to retirement . |
| 9 | He had been looking forward to showing it all to her . |
| 10 | Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand . |
| 11 | One moment he had been looking forward to a happy and wealthy retirement and now , minutes later , he was a condemned criminal with only a few hours left to live . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to meeting you too , ’ she answered , which was true . |
| 13 | If she had accepted him , she could have been looking forward to a child of her own now . |
| 14 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 15 | The time and effort demanded of them may put a strain on their relationship with a partner , who may have been looking forward to the years when they could be alone again as a couple . |
| 16 | I 've really been looking forward to flying — it will be my first time on a plane . ’ |
| 17 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 18 | And here is Edward , who has so been looking forward to a new playmate ! ’ |
| 19 | He had had a good day at the office and his head had not troubled him ; they seemed pleased with his work ; he had been looking forward to telling her about it over supper , and now this . |
| 20 | Ramsay knew her by repute only and had been looking forward to seeing her in person . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The result will be disappointing , not only for you but also for the bride who has been looking forward to keeping her flowers for ever . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | He had been looking forward to ‘ getting away ’ as he put it , perhaps because it sounded more therapeutic than ‘ going on holiday ’ . |
| 25 | It was a birthday treat he had been looking forward to all week . |
| 26 | He had really been looking forward to seeing her tonight . |
| 27 | At long last you 've got a spare half hour to play that adventure you 've been looking forward to ! |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
| 30 | 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 . |