Example sentences of "look up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There was a time recently when a friend of mine said she was in love and could I look up the man in question 's chart and tell her the truth ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 4 | Then you should first look up the subject in the subject index . |
| 5 | You can look up the sections in the library . |
| 6 | The great value of this is that the searcher can look up the name of an author known to have published in the field of interest and , if any previously published work of the author has been cited , the item will appear along with the names of the citing authors . |
| 7 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 8 | So you can , so if you feel that you 're a bit , you need a bit of practice in a certain area , you can literally look up the type of course that would benefit you the most . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , I 'll look up the books he 's written at the college library and take a couple out , ’ said Loretta airily . |
| 10 | About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan . |
| 11 | About eighty per cent of the users are students , and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books . |
| 12 | Unlike everybody else , however , the hard man did not look up the neighbourhood exorcist in Thompson 's Local Directory . |
| 13 | The judge may look up the meaning of a word in a dictionary or technical work ; but this ordinary meaning may be controlled by the particular context . |
| 14 | Using one of these you can look up the code number on a can of beans , magazine , or whatever , and the relevant entry will give the string of text for that particular code . |
| 15 | Now , while you go and dry those eyes , I 'll look up the trains . ’ |