Example sentences of "[pron] look up the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 | The most prominent , due west of the village of Lescun as you look up the valley , is the more or less pyramidal Pic d'Anie , of 8,200 feet , the first or most westerly of the major Pyrenean summits ; it is claimed by the Basques as their one high Pyrenee , the home of wild goats and the legendary source of storms . |
| 12 | It is doubtful if you look up the word for baggage retrieval , and then look for a sign with those words . |
| 13 | For example , if you look up the word " wit " in a Concordance to Congreve , you will find all the places where the seventeenth-century dramatist Congreve used that word ; you can then work out what its particular meaning for Congreve must have been by studying how he uses it . |
| 14 | If you look up the line of the eighteenth fairway you will see — yes — the helicopter is hovering over its target . |
| 15 | Wah , urgh , I tried to argue the point at appeal , erm , if you look up the listing for these properties , er , in the area which back onto the mill stream , it 's all the grounds are listed because it says quite clearly , that in the opinion of , they form a group , and it was one of the reasons which I 'm glad you , well as you can see , this piece of ground is part of a listing , and although this existing permission , we 're looking at it as a clean site , tonight , we 're not looking at what has been passed . |
| 16 | She looked up the range of escalators . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 'll phone my father-in-common-law and get him to look up the address the er postcode in his |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Although the majority of modern word processing packages have a built-in Thesaurus , their content is limited and you will often find yourself looking up the word you require in a book . |