Example sentences of "[verb] look up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cascade is not so demure , proffering itself to anyone who cares to look up from the road — an many do . |
| 2 | Her face tilts to look up into the sky where there ought to be stars . |
| 3 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 4 | So that 's how you look after your bandages and all these things that we 're going to show you you 'll find in those little sections in your first aid book so if you get confused or why you 've only got to look up in the book . |
| 5 | His wife , not deigning to look up from the page , smiled to herself slightly . |
| 6 | And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale . |
| 7 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 8 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 9 | Another man would have gone away , would have pretended we were not there , would have stood looking up at the wall-plaques and the windows until we had gone safely away . |
| 10 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh yes , ’ he said , not even bothering to look up from the menu . |
| 12 | Leonora jumped out , stood looking up at the house for a few moments more , then ran up the steps to ring the doorbell , laughter bubbling up inside as she anticipated Penry 's surprise at the sight of her . |