Example sentences of "look [art] word " in BNC.

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1 Had she done so she would not have said a word , would not have looked a word , would simply have sat on the bed and talked to Tina for ten minutes instead of the two of them sitting opposite each other in armchairs .
2 The habit of checking guesses by looking the word up , or asking .
3 I had to look the word up , you know , look the word up in a dictionary to find out what it meant .
4 I simply remove myself , calmly , and with a dignity that must be noticed even by those who would have to look the word up in a dictionary to get some faint glimmer of an idea of what the concept actually means .
5 I had to look the word up , you know , look the word up in a dictionary to find out what it meant .
6 This is a blatantly implausible claim , of course : why would I look a word up in the dictionary to see how I use it ?
7 she looked the word up .
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