Example sentences of "looked up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | Dolly looked up at a knock on the door . |
| 4 | Rincewind looked up at a number of impassive , upside down faces . |
| 5 | He had such a nice voice that she looked up with a smile , expecting to see a nice , kind face to match . |
| 6 | He looked up with a flash of panic — but then he calmed and smiled . |
| 7 | Paige looked up with a frown . |
| 8 | Sheila puckered her brow with concentration , then looked up with a grin . |
| 9 | She looked up with a start . |
| 10 | Joseph looked up with a start and nodded vigorously although he had n't heard a word his father had said . |
| 11 | Barbara Porter looked up with a lipstick pencil in her hand and smiled at the Hinkle . |
| 12 | Blanche looked up for a moment to chew the implications of what she had just read when another alien sound impinged . |
| 13 | The fundamental difference between the two routes , then , is that a pronunciation is either built up from sublexical components ( ‘ assembled ’ phonology ) or looked up as a whole ( ‘ addressed ’ phonology ) . |
| 14 | She looked up as a waitress appeared carrying a tray loaded with plates of crusty bread , cheese and pickles . |
| 15 | He had decided to give up , had , indeed , spent several hours trying to think of one thing he actually liked about Elinor when , two days before the funeral , she looked up from a quiche Lorraine ( 'Billykins says it 's about all she could face ’ ) and barked : ‘ What are we going to drink ? ’ |
| 16 | Maxted looked up from a pile of papers he was struggling to sort out . |
| 17 | He looked up from a cloud of blue smoke . |
| 18 | When Paula was shown into her office Arlene looked up from a sheaf of photographs which were spread on her desk with just a hint of impatience . |
| 19 | Rats looked up from a saucer of milk as the monklike figure entered the room . |