Example sentences of "look up [prep] a " 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 | The King is seen exchanging an earthly crown for a crown of thorns and looking up towards a heavenly crown |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | All three men were looking up at a newly stained wallaba beam which supported the terrace room . |
| 10 | She stood outside looking up at a creamy moon , fearful lest some bat might fly into her hair . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There were further rattles of machine-gun fire and Rex found himself looking up at a troubled sky . |
| 13 | We soon realise that we are , effectively , looking up at a red ceiling , where the four walls of the room , seen in perspective below , are all decorated with a brace of fishermen . |
| 14 | Grant found himself looking up at an attractive dark haired nurse . |
| 15 | ‘ Things , ’ he echoed , looking up with a sinking feeling in his heart . |
| 16 | The boy paused in his flight , looking up with a mixture of suspicion and hostility . |
| 17 | Looking up with a start , Daisy saw that Ricky was actually smiling . |
| 18 | Looking up with a gasp , she saw him watching her with narrowed blue eyes , his mouth a hard line . |
| 19 | Late in the night , towards moonset , Hazel was looking up from a cut where they were crouching to a little bank above . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | Lee lifted herself a little towards her goddess and rested herself on one elbow , looking up like a child , expectant . |
| 22 | The possible phonemic function of each allophonic description found by HWIM 's Acoustic Phonetic Recognizer was scored by looking up in a long term confusion matrix the vector of 71 phoneme labels that could be associated with the segment 's feature description . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Then I 'll look up with a smile , and breathe freely . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I looked up into a bloated quivering face with three days ' growth of beard . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |