Example sentences of "looked up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked up the gulley . |
| 2 | He lit a match , looked up the staircase and began to count . |
| 3 | The old man looked up the staircase in front of them . |
| 4 | I looked up the window and no , no Martine there |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She went to the telephone table , took out the directory and looked up the name MacLean . |
| 7 | Very thoughtfully , she turned to the telephone directory and looked up the name . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I always had several anthologies of poetry with me , luckily including this one , so I feverishly looked up the poem : it was Ernest Dowson 's ‘ Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae ’ , with its plaintive refrain : |
| 10 | When the figure looked up the boy was impressed by bright , blue eyes and a long nose but a kind expression . |
| 11 | Masklin looked up the pipe . |
| 12 | Polly looked up the companionway ladder . |
| 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 | She looked up the range of escalators . |
| 15 | I looked up the teletext and it said full squad for Manchester United . |
| 16 | My aunt looked up the records and told me about her . |
| 17 | It was only when I got home and looked up the dictionary that I realised what a gem it had been . |
| 18 | I looked up the line of the torrent . |
| 19 | He reached for the telephone directory and looked up the number of Morley Hooper , the retired accountant whom Matthew had told him looked after Riddle 's more important business affairs . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And she got out of bed , looked up the page , and read , A reduction in international armaments is impossible ; by virtue of any number of fears and jealousies . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | SACHA GIVARSI looked up the children 's TV presenters of the Sixties and Seventies to find out if they were still young at heart . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Miserably I looked up the hymn . |
| 27 | Schmidt looked up the scarp . |
| 28 | 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 . |