Example sentences of "look [adv prt] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Looking down the basement steps which led to a paved area from which a door led straight into that kitchen which had secretly housed Bill Egan , he thought he could see that the door was ajar . |
| 3 | The judge was midway round the circle , looking down the scratch line , a grey-haired man in a torn suit jacket and a homburg . |
| 4 | That means looking up the tide tables to see the times of high and low water and the tidal stream list to find the maximum rates . |
| 5 | ‘ Looking up the town history ? |
| 6 | THE BROODING , lidded eyes look over the coffee cup . |
| 7 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 8 | Unlike everybody else , however , the hard man did not look up the neighbourhood exorcist in Thompson 's Local Directory . |
| 9 | Using one of these you can look up the code number on a can of beans , magazine , or whatever , and the relevant entry will give the string of text for that particular code . |
| 10 | Then look up the root word in the lexicon . |
| 11 | Simply look up the cake tin size in the charts on pages 8–12 for all the ingredients , quantities and cooking times . |
| 12 | Visit the museum , look around the engine sheds . |
| 13 | Fowler took it , opened the breech and looked down the twin barrels . |
| 14 | She went to the telephone table , took out the directory and looked up the name MacLean . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Polly looked up the companionway ladder . |
| 17 | I looked out the kitchen window and there he was , standing at the back gate with a bunch of red roses in his hand . ’ |