Example sentences of "look [pron] up [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stopped for a moment , then said suddenly , ‘ Let's look them up in the veterinary register and see roughly how old they are , judging from the year they qualified . ’ |
| 2 | Look it up in the six textbooks mentioned in chapter 4 , draw a pattern diagram and study the rays or branches one by one , committing part to memory and part to short notes for further use . |
| 3 | They they something like , and I 'll look it up for the precise wording , that this would be acting like greenbelt . |
| 4 | I looked them up in the big dictionary my father had bought for me by mail order at the beginning of the year . |
| 5 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |