Example sentences of "looked up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , er , and my father actually looked up the year before and found he knew the S H M , an old school chum , and he sent us a ticket . |
| 2 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 3 | I took a trip into Albany an ’ looked up the architect 's plans of the house an' its estate . |
| 4 | The reference call to the hotel , The Randolph — that 's what he 'd remembered clearest of all , really : he 'd looked up the telephone number and then been put through , on the extension given to him by his client , to the Deputy Manageress , who had promptly and effusively vouched for the bona fides of Rent-a-Car 's prospective customer . |
| 5 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 6 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |
| 7 | One woman had looked up the meaning of manipulate in the Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 8 | ‘ In any case , I have looked up the time of your flight . |