Phrasal Verbs with Look in English
Look [lʊk] – this word is most often used in the English language as a verb, and can also be used as a noun. Consider the verb look as a phrasal verb, and examples of the most frequent uses:
- look after
- My mother looks after my son when I’m working
- He’s good at looking after his own interests
- look ahead
- We need to look ahead and plan for next year
- look around/round
- People came out of their houses and looked around
- Let’s look round the town this afternoon
- look back on
- Looking back on it, I think I was wrong to leave when I did
- look down on
- I’m sick of Ken looking down on me the whole time
- look for
- Could you help me look for my keys?
- look forward to
- I’m really looking forward to going to Japan
- look in
- I’ll look in this evening to see how she is
- look into
- There is a mystery about his death and the police are looking into it
- look on
- He was just looking on while the others were playing
- Most people look on a television set as an essential piece of furniture
- look out
- Look out. There’s a lorry coming!
- look out for – шукати, ретельно вивчити
- Look out for your Aunt while you’re at the station
- look out on
- His house looks (out) on to the sea
- look over
- Look over what you’ve written before handing it to the examiner
- look through
- Look through your old clothes and see if you have anything to give away
- I said good morning but she looked me straight through and walked on
- look up
- If you don’t know the word, look it up in the dictionary
- Things are looking up since I found a job
- When you go to New York, be sure to look up our representative there
- look up and down
- The policeman looked the drunk man up and down deliberately before replying to his question
- look up to
- He looks up to his older brother