Example sentences of "look up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ No , looking up an old friend called Jo . ’
2 Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these
3 Then , when you return to your own room , you can look up the relevant pages and study them in the light of the explanations you have had .
4 Regardless of what the manufacturers of integrated software may tell us it can still be a time consuming process to off-load the document from the wordprocessor and pull in the data base and its files to look up a simple telephone number .
5 The user documentation quotes that on a SUN 3/160 machine running Kyoto Common Lisp ( KCL ) , the time required to look up a large word ( excluding garbage collection ) is 11.8 seconds of CPU .
6 One day he slipped off alone , out of interest , to look up a local doctor , who took him on a tour of hospitals .
7 You have to look up every second word .
8 The weather was gorgeous and I was able to look up an old friend . ’
9 Er it is not asking the panel to n you know to draft a rite that would used and I , I would interpret this to mean that it 's asking the panel to look up the theological propriety if you like of such a rite and bring forward suggestions which would then be passed for implementation , if so decided , to the panel on worship .
10 Well marketing could be sorts of things , it could be doing exhibitions which you 've talked about , it could be erm , mail shots , it could be looking , going down the library to do , to look up the electoral role , to look up the names of people .
11 You then consult that on the screen and print it out only if you think you are going to want to look up the same word again .
12 ‘ It 's a problem we still have to solve , ’ said a spokesman : it may want to look up the latest crop of hopefuls such as Covia Technologies Inc , Locus Computing Corp , and NobleNet Inc which have recently begun to offer just such solutions .
13 Look up a good book on grammar and work on your prepositions .
14 If you look up the relevant books you will find that eqn ( 3.56 ) may be expressed in terms of elliptic integrals .
15 I looked up the authentic sources ; the Comte de Horne turned out not to be an illegitimate son of Louis XV ; the marriage had been consummated and he had died of indigestion .
16 He lifted one knee from the ground and turned his head slowly and looked up the slight incline to the path , and in his sun-blinded vision he saw a shape .
17 Accordingly I looked up the various symptoms and cases of several diseases .
18 You looked up the late opening times of the local pool but never got round to going .
19 In fact my gynaecologist looked up the other day and said , ‘ Dame Edna , when will you stop giving ? ’
20 They looked up the spiral stair .
21 ‘ I looked up the tenth anniversary and it said tin , which was a bit limiting .
22 I worked right through it and then looked up the proper translation , which was at the end of the book .
23 I looked up the original advertisement .
24 The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky .
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