Example sentences of "look up [art] [adj] " 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 | And just as the born worrier hurries to the medical dictionary to look up a real or imagined ailment , then medicates the common cold as though it were a terminal condition , so there are Koi-keepers whose ponds are a permanently dilute solution of anti-parasitic/antibacterial preparations … just in case . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One day he slipped off alone , out of interest , to look up a local doctor , who took him on a tour of hospitals . |
| 8 | You have to look up every second word . |
| 9 | The weather was gorgeous and I was able to look up an old friend . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Had you bothered to look up the LD-50 in any standard work , or even bothered to consult Dr Woodward , you would have been more cautious about repeating tales of poisoning . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | Look up a good book on grammar and work on your prepositions . |
| 16 | If you look up the relevant books you will find that eqn ( 3.56 ) may be expressed in terms of elliptic integrals . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Accordingly I looked up the various symptoms and cases of several diseases . |
| 20 | You looked up the late opening times of the local pool but never got round to going . |
| 21 | In fact my gynaecologist looked up the other day and said , ‘ Dame Edna , when will you stop giving ? ’ |
| 22 | They looked up the spiral stair . |
| 23 | ‘ I looked up the tenth anniversary and it said tin , which was a bit limiting . |
| 24 | I worked right through it and then looked up the proper translation , which was at the end of the book . |
| 25 | I looked up the original advertisement . |
| 26 | 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 . |