Example sentences of "[conj] look up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffices of S are equations that will be evaluated in any given case to give a packing density , followed by r to indicate bucket size , so that the correct synonym percentage can be calculated or looked up . |
| 2 | He had forgotten all about arranging for a taxi to pick him up or looking up bus times or anything like that . |
| 3 | We treat just a couple , place some in the exercises and leave the rest for the reader to prove for himself or look up in , for example , [ 24 ] . |
| 4 | The fundamental difference between the two routes , then , is that a pronunciation is either built up from sublexical components ( ‘ assembled ’ phonology ) or looked up as a whole ( ‘ addressed ’ phonology ) . |
| 5 | Also the translation process amounted to little more than looking up words in bi-lingual dictionaries . |
| 6 | In the fire-comer stood a black-and-white goat , with knobby little horns and eyes like yellow glass , and on the hearth lay a very large cat , a multi-coloured , mazy-patterned brindled cat , that looked up at the little tailor with eyes like cold green jewels , with black slits for pupils . |
| 7 | ‘ See you , ’ I say and escape to City Road , where an off-licencee is opening and looks up surprised to see an office yuppie ( his definition ) among the line of winoes so early in the morning-o ! |
| 8 | Juanita sits in the kitchen and looks up with her embarrassed half-smile/half-laugh when I bend down and step inside . |
| 9 | A man with what appears to be two sacks of potatoes on his back stops and looks up to where I sit . |
| 10 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 11 | He soon spotted several well-dressed young women who strolled up and down their particular stretch of pavement , faltering and looking up with decorous winsomeness when a likely man passed . |
| 12 | I remember seeing the red card and looking up , there was 30,000 people jeering and I could see my dad in the front row of the directors ’ box . |
| 13 | Entering it he could imagine her sitting there in the summer days and evenings , working on the papers which she occasionally contributed to ornithological journals and looking up from time to time to gaze out over the headland to the sea and the far horizon , could see again that carved , weather-browned Aztec face with its hooded eyes under the grey-black hair , drawn back into a bun , could hear again a voice which , for him , had been one of the most beautiful female voices he had ever heard . |
| 14 | But lying there beside her , listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled , not with post-coital sadness , but with an agreeable languor as if the long-committed Sunday afternoon still stretched ahead of them . |
| 15 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 16 | Then , like a break in the rhythm of a fugue , I heard the Sheikha say ‘ Um Hamed ’ , and looking up saw Um Hamed and two of the women of her hareem walking through the court toward us . |
| 17 | The King is seen exchanging an earthly crown for a crown of thorns and looking up towards a heavenly crown |
| 18 | To see Dustin Hoffman playing his own song on the piano , and looking up adoringly as Sting sang — well , you do n't get many moments like that . |
| 19 | And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars . |
| 20 | Imagine yourself drifting on a tranquil lake one warm summer evening while the setting sun bathes an Alpine meadow ; imagine walking leisurely among scented pine woods and looking up wonderously at jagged peaks ; imagine simply strolling through a picturesque medieval town , admiring lovely gardens and sampling a range of regional gastronomic treats . |
| 21 | She did not go up to London to see her lover without first drawing fifteen pounds out of her bank account , and thinking up a convincing story to tell her parents , and packing a good book to read on the train ( it was U.S.A. by John dos Passos , and she had read four and a half pages of it before she had been interrupted by her neighbour 's knee ) , and looking up her lover 's address in the A to Z. |
| 22 | ‘ I wonder where Barbs is ? ’ said Tim , stopping and looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 23 | She was shortish and had an attractive way of cocking her head on one side and looking up with big dark eyes and a wryly amused smile . |
| 24 | ‘ What ? ’ he said absently , relaxing the tight grip on her hands at last and looking up sharply . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's talking to Jorge and looking up towards your room , ’ Maggie said drily , wondering just what Felipe would use to kill her if he found out about this piece of sabotage . |
| 26 | The house looked the same , Sara thought , standing for a moment outside the gate and looking up at it . |
| 27 | ‘ I cared about us making love , ’ he said , raking both hands back through his thick dark hair and looking up at her . |
| 28 | And looking up that er driveway er now they 've got that house there , you can see er what the view is , say up that entrance . |
| 29 | The bloke behind the counter said , look , I 've just got to go and look up the year of manufacture , I 'll be back in a couple of minutes . |
| 30 | Another lady would come outside and look up a tree and say , sadly , ‘ All them squirrels goin' to waste . ’ |