Example sentences of "[pers pn] looked up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked up the name of my shop steward — Chris Pike — in a recent union bulletin , wrote to him for further information and he invited me up to the Branch Office . |
| 2 | Then I remembered the location of a luxurious caravan a relative has near Perpignan , so I looked up the guide , and found that there are a number of crags nearby — even better . |
| 3 | Miserably I looked up the hymn . |
| 4 | I looked up the authentic sources ; the Comte de Horne turned out not to be an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; the marriage had been consummated and he had died of indigestion . |
| 5 | I looked up the original advertisement . |
| 6 | Accordingly I looked up the various symptoms and cases of several diseases . |
| 7 | I looked up the gulley . |
| 8 | I looked up the line of the torrent . |
| 9 | I looked up the phone directory and , sure enough , there was a P.Lawn , ( luckily not a common name ! ) , from which we surmised , correctly , that Ken had died but Pat was still there . |
| 10 | ‘ I looked up the tenth anniversary and it said tin , which was a bit limiting . |
| 11 | I looked up the teletext and it said full squad for Manchester United . |
| 12 | I looked up the window and no , no Martine there |
| 13 | I looked up the subject , Justice , in the new dictionary , and it said , To Treat Justly , or to Treat Fairly , and then it went on to talk about legal justice . |
| 14 | You looked up the late opening times of the local pool but never got round to going . |
| 15 | It was a quiet question from Reginald now ; and she answered him as quietly : bending forward she looked up the table towards him as she said , ‘ Strange things are happening . |
| 16 | She looked up the range of escalators . |
| 17 | The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky . |
| 18 | When she looked up the mountainside , as if searching for help there , I realized that she still had fear of me , little knowing the true state of affairs , and felt herself like an animal in a trap . |
| 19 | They looked up the spiral stair . |
| 20 | There is a story that when the Ordnance Surveyors started to revise the original primary triangulation of the United Kingdom , they looked up the notebooks of more than a century previously . |
| 21 | When he looked up the light was pearly and the sky a blue so tender he could hardly take his eyes off it , with the result that on several occasions he collided with people coming the other way . |