'V -ing' - Construction 9

Name: the look forward to doing construction
Description: A person has a positive or negative attitude towards a future activity.
Verbs: dread, face, fancy, favour, fear, look forward to
Example: She was looking forward to getting a flat of her own. (BNC)
Membership: cognition; attitudinal
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Cognition. Roles: NP1: Emoter; -ing clause: Phenomenon
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