Example sentences of "look [pers pn] [adv] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he really meant was ‘ I 've looked you up in Who 's Who and you 're not there . |
| 2 | Rufus had called her a waif and Adam had immediately ridiculed this word , said it was a romantic novelist 's word , so they had looked it up in Hilbert 's Shorter Oxford Dictionary and found illuminating things . |
| 3 | If the bride or groom or their families or ancestors are famous , it might be worth your while looking them up in Who 's Who , and similar reference works , of which there are many editions covering authors , scientists , theatrical personages , and royalty . |
| 4 | I took the precaution of looking it up in case — ’ |
| 5 | Look it up in Titmarsh 's book . |
| 6 | The only thing is I think I 'd rather try and er find out now we know it 's Fancy Goods and look it up in Thompson 's local and then find out the address and then we 'll find our own way down there . |
| 7 | I 've called it R P to distinguish it from Spearman 's which we 're gon na do next week , but you can convert the value of R to a T score and if you 've got a T score you can look it up in T tables to work out whether it 's significant . |
| 8 | Hari knocked on the door and it was quickly opened by a young maidservant who looked her over in disdain . |
| 9 | I looked it up in Gray 's anatomy and that 's what it says . |