Example sentences of "look up the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , er , and my father actually looked up the year before and found he knew the S H M , an old school chum , and he sent us a ticket . |
| 2 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 3 | I took a trip into Albany an ’ looked up the architect 's plans of the house an' its estate . |
| 4 | The reference call to the hotel , The Randolph — that 's what he 'd remembered clearest of all , really : he 'd looked up the telephone number and then been put through , on the extension given to him by his client , to the Deputy Manageress , who had promptly and effusively vouched for the bona fides of Rent-a-Car 's prospective customer . |
| 5 | One woman had looked up the meaning of manipulate in the Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 6 | ‘ In any case , I have looked up the time of your flight . |
| 7 | Looking up the hillside to the north from this point , the splendid cairn of Josse Pike can be seen prominently . |
| 8 | That means looking up the tide tables to see the times of high and low water and the tidal stream list to find the maximum rates . |
| 9 | Although the majority of modern word processing packages have a built-in Thesaurus , their content is limited and you will often find yourself looking up the word you require in a book . |
| 10 | He was looking up the driveway , trying to make out the shape of the house through the trees . |
| 11 | The drafters of the 1533 act can readily be imagined looking up the statute of Richard II which referred to ‘ varlets called yeomen ’ in the service of lords — the Canon 's Yeoman no less . |
| 12 | ‘ Looking up the town history ? |
| 13 | Hence a reader looking up the definition of a word such as dogs would find the relevant information stored under the word dog . |
| 14 | While I am about it , I had better apologise on behalf of a contributor , who was castigated by post for not looking up the meaning of a phrase that was , to him , mysterious . |
| 15 | ( As examples of the latter , try looking up the length of the river Mississippi in as many reference books as you can find , and compare the answers. ) 5 . |
| 16 | Anyway , there I was lying on the pavement on my back , looking up the skirt of a very tall Quantas air hostess who was looking down at me in equal amazement . |
| 17 | ‘ There was a time recently when a friend of mine said she was in love and could I look up the man in question 's chart and tell her the truth ? |
| 18 | The bloke behind the counter said , look , I 've just got to go and look up the year of manufacture , I 'll be back in a couple of minutes . |
| 19 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 20 | Then you should first look up the subject in the subject index . |
| 21 | The great value of this is that the searcher can look up the name of an author known to have published in the field of interest and , if any previously published work of the author has been cited , the item will appear along with the names of the citing authors . |
| 22 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 23 | So you can , so if you feel that you 're a bit , you need a bit of practice in a certain area , you can literally look up the type of course that would benefit you the most . |
| 24 | Unlike everybody else , however , the hard man did not look up the neighbourhood exorcist in Thompson 's Local Directory . |
| 25 | The judge may look up the meaning of a word in a dictionary or technical work ; but this ordinary meaning may be controlled by the particular context . |
| 26 | Using one of these you can look up the code number on a can of beans , magazine , or whatever , and the relevant entry will give the string of text for that particular code . |
| 27 | He had n't , after all , promised not to look up the name and home number of the divisional security officer , and one small stain would n't really count and might not even show . |
| 28 | I 'll phone my father-in-common-law and get him to look up the address the er postcode in his |
| 29 | She smiled once again , and very warmly , at the back of Tristan 's pale gold head and then at his truly Grecian profile as he turned to look up the aisle hoping — she supposed — to catch a glimpse of his bride . |
| 30 | One thing you might want to do as a way of putting an argument together would be to look up the word " Romanticism " in the dictionary , since Byron 's poetry belongs to this literary movement . |