Example sentences of "look up [prep] [art] [noun] " 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 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 5 | And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale . |
| 6 | I travel on an Irish passport and in going through Immigration was looked up in a register of , I presume , suspects . |
| 7 | When words are looked up in the word look-up tree , if the flag for start of compound is set , the compound tree is checked . |
| 8 | As adjacent word positions are also looked up in the word look-up tree , they are checked for whether or not they are the appropriate words to complete the compound . |
| 9 | Companies tend to use a ‘ firewall ’ along their route into Internet so that individuals can not be looked up in the directory of users — a sort of ex directory . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She looks up into the sky in the direction of Ol Doinyo Lengai . |
| 12 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 13 | Mark looks up at the sky . |
| 14 | John looks up at the cop 's face . |
| 15 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 16 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 17 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 18 | He looks up at the class . |
| 19 | The river is broad here , about two hundred yards , and from its banks one looks up to the baroque turrets of the Benedictine monastery of Stift Göttweig , perched high on its wooded hill . |
| 20 | Fortunately , Leinster 's front five , which includes the experienced tight-head prop Des Fitzgerald , looks up to the task of scrummaging against the All Blacks . |
| 21 | However , second seed Stefan Edberg can afford a smile as he looks up from the bottom of the draw . |
| 22 | The other feller looks up from the divan . |
| 23 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 24 | Then , looking up along the gully where the boar had been , Kalchu noticed a young boy leading his dog on a chain . |
| 25 | ‘ Good day to thee , sire , ’ Blind Hugh began , and found himself looking up into a face with four eyes in it . |
| 26 | Rohmer was looking up into the sky as the vortex of smoke and steam was greedily sucked skywards into the black roiling clouds of the storm . |
| 27 | Dexter stood at the bottom of the stairs , looking up into the gloom at their head . |
| 28 | ‘ The graveyard of St. Giles , ’ Sir James testily remarked , looking up into the night sky . |
| 29 | But anyway , very dramatic shot looking up into the mouth of the balloon with this huge flame going up . |
| 30 | Others designed the sculpture for a specific viewpoint , which can sometimes be reconstructed by looking up into the figure 's eyes . |