'V -ing' - Construction 9
| Name: | the look forward to doing construction |
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| 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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