Example sentences of "look up [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time spent on this may be looked up as an investment in that if essential job elements are identified , then the people involved in the recruitment process will be less inclined to develop the criteria as they go along . |
| 2 | If you 've ever looked up at a stage and seen a strange device with an illuminated spinning dial and wondered what it was , chances are it was a strobe tuner . |
| 3 | I travel on an Irish passport and in going through Immigration was looked up in a register of , I presume , suspects . |
| 4 | For a subject search , the words of the user 's search were looked up in an index containing words from title-like fields and subject headings , and from corporate names . |
| 5 | ‘ Good day to thee , sire , ’ Blind Hugh began , and found himself looking up into a face with four eyes in it . |
| 6 | The third perspective is Kao yuan , in which the viewer is looking up towards a mountain scene , as William Willetts puts it , ‘ through successively receding heights represented by flat parallel planes , each with its own horizon ’ . |
| 7 | He was imagining himself sitting in a tiny Kayak in the middle of the Severn looking up at a wall of water , anything from six to nine feet high depending on conditions , bearing down on him at twelve miles an hour and making more noise than a fast approaching train . |
| 8 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 9 | The boy paused in his flight , looking up with a mixture of suspicion and hostility . |
| 10 | Looking up with a gasp , she saw him watching her with narrowed blue eyes , his mouth a hard line . |
| 11 | Looking up with a start , Daisy saw that Ricky was actually smiling . |
| 12 | ‘ What have they done to you now ? ’ she had mildly enquired , looking up from a photocopy of an article on The Compulsion to Public Prayer : a study of religious neurosis in a post-Christian society which she had just received in her own post , and Charles had said , ‘ Asked us to a New Year 's Eve party . ’ |
| 13 | Late in the night , towards moonset , Hazel was looking up from a cut where they were crouching to a little bank above . |
| 14 | Lee lifted herself a little towards her goddess and rested herself on one elbow , looking up like a child , expectant . |
| 15 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 16 | Then I 'll look up with a smile , and breathe freely . |
| 17 | A coffin-maker could look up to a funeral furnisher rather than to an undertaker ; an undertaker might have respected the funeral furnisher in as much as he could afford to buy in his coffins ; whereas the funeral furnisher , whilst relying on the coffin-maker , looked down on the undertaker ( Col. 2 ) . |
| 18 | There was a relationship between Jean Simmons ( then married to Stewart Granger ) and Burton which was so close that he continued embracing her , publicly , after the stroke of midnight one New Year 's Eve , only to look up to a slap in the face from Sybil , who instantly left the party — for New York . |
| 19 | I picture richly rewarding learning environments : I walk , unnoticed , into a creative activities period in Jos ( Nigeria ) where the children remain too absorbed in their various tasks to look up at a stranger , however unfamiliar . |
| 20 | He was well on his way to the station when he paused and looked up towards a building , and he saw in his mind 's eye Carrie running up the steps , and he recalled her voice saying , ‘ Oh ! why must you keep on about that . ’ |
| 21 | He said softly as he looked up at a gull wheeling above coral roofs : ‘ Perhaps you would care to tell me instead where you have been since yesterday morning , and what has happened to you ? ’ |
| 22 | Dolly looked up at a knock on the door . |
| 23 | Rincewind looked up at a number of impassive , upside down faces . |
| 24 | He had such a nice voice that she looked up with a smile , expecting to see a nice , kind face to match . |
| 25 | He looked up with a flash of panic — but then he calmed and smiled . |
| 26 | Paige looked up with a frown . |
| 27 | Sheila puckered her brow with concentration , then looked up with a grin . |
| 28 | She looked up with a start . |
| 29 | Joseph looked up with a start and nodded vigorously although he had n't heard a word his father had said . |
| 30 | Barbara Porter looked up with a lipstick pencil in her hand and smiled at the Hinkle . |