Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] forward to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If Kenny Shields is n't allowed to buy players soon , instead of being expected to rely on free transfers etc , then it is going to be a very , very long season for all at Carrick when everyone has been looking forward to so much . |
| 3 | The problem is resolved when Chris announces that his conference has been put forward to 5 June , although something in his manner suggests to Matty that he got the date wrong in the first place . |
| 4 | If he does this , then a hypothesis has been put forward to be tested . |
| 5 | MICHAEL WATSON 'S World Boxing Association world middleweight title challenge against the Jamaican , Mike McCallum , has been brought forward to 29 November and switched to Alexandra Palace . |
| 6 | IBM Corp is leaving launch of the new top-end mainframe disk drive to its AdStar unit in San Jose , and it now appears that the introduction has been brought forward to tomorrow — perhaps in an effort to steal Hitachi Data Systems Inc 's thunder . |
| 7 | The April meeting has been brought forward to April 2 as it would otherwise clash with election day . |
| 8 | It has been brought forward to 5 April to allow institutional shareholders to enjoy the 25 per cent grossing-up for the last time . |
| 9 | Please note that the autumn QT Day has been brought forward to September to coincide with the beginning of the Academic Year Date : — 23 September 1989 — |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 12 | I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’ |
| 13 | Was it still remotely possible that , in spite of everything , he 'd been looking forward to having her here with him as his wife ? |
| 14 | You know is going forward to a week on Sunday and then whatever else happens we 're going through the process are n't we ? |
| 15 | If she had accepted him , she could have been looking forward to a child of her own now . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A few weeks ago she would have been looking forward to the show , but it had all fallen flat and she had to scold herself severely before she could whip up any enthusiasm at all . |
| 18 | Obviously no expense was being spared to make the night a success , and in different circumstances she would have been looking forward to it , but now , as silence settled over the car , she could feel herself growing tense . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had been looking forward to showing it all to her . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Ramsay knew her by repute only and had been looking forward to seeing her in person . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He had been looking forward to ‘ getting away ’ as he put it , perhaps because it sounded more therapeutic than ‘ going on holiday ’ . |
| 26 | It was a birthday treat he had been looking forward to all week . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Gradually , during his visits there , he began to tell her how much he had been looking forward to it , and confided how he would remember their ‘ walking the policies , ( which is what Delia Sutherland called a businesslike like across her property ) and sitting up late at night drinking brandy , discussing plans . |