Example sentences of "had [be] look [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a birthday treat he had been looking forward to all week . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She tried telling herself that he was just another idle aristocratic adventurer ; she had been looked over by several of the type and others of lesser breeding during her ten years in the public eye at the Fish . |