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 .
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