Phrasal verbs with look

1) look after

• to take care of smb., присматривать, ухаживать, заботиться

• If you look after your new shoes, they will last longer.

2) look for

• try to find smth. or smb., искать

• Fred spent all day looking for a job.

3) look forward to

• To be excited about smth that will happen, предвкушать, с нетерпением ожидать

• I’m looking forward to their visit.

4) look into (smth)

• try to find the truth about smth , расследовать (дело), детально изучать, разобраться

• The police are looking into last night’s robbery.

5) look through

• to search papers, list, etc. to try to find smth, пробежать(глазами)

• to examine smth carefully, внимательно просматривать, изучать что-то

• to know the truth about, not be deceived by smb.or smth. , видеть насквозь

• Looking through a magazine in the doctor’s waiting room, I found a photograph.

• Every time I try to fool him he looks through my tricks.

6) look up

to find information in a dictionary, on the Internet, искать какую-то информацию

( в словаре или в справочнике)

• I don’t know the meaning of this word; please . look it up in your dictionary.

1) Take after

To look or behave like smb., пойти в кого-то внешностью или характером

• He takes after his mother.

2) Take down

to write smth., записать что-то (часто под диктовку)

• He read out the names and his secretary took them down.

3) Take in

• To deceive smb., обмануть кого-то

• To receive smb. as a guest,приютить

• At first he took us in by his stories and we tried to help him, but later we learnt that his stories were all lies.

• The owner took us in and gave us a bed for the night.

4) Take off

• To remove clothing, снимать

• To leave the ground, взлетать (о самолёте)

• I took off my coat.

• The plane took off at seven.

5) Take on

To give smb. a job, брать на работу

• They’ve taken on several more men.

6) Take to

To form a liking for smb or smth, пристраститься , привыкнуть к чему-то,

• He took to drinking ( began drinking too much)

• We took to our new teacher immediately.

7) Take up

do an activity, begin a hobby, sport or kind of study, начать что-то делать, заняться чем-то

• Paul has taken up swimming.