Example sentences of "[pron] looked up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Back at the Olympik , I looked up a passage in Pascal which had been in my mind earlier in the evening : |
2 | 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 . |
3 | I looked up the window and no , no Martine there |
4 | I looked up the gulley . |
5 | I looked up the teletext and it said full squad for Manchester United . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | I looked up the line of the torrent . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Miserably I looked up the hymn . |
11 | She looked up the range of escalators . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | He looked up a number . |
16 | 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 . |