1000 Phrasal Verbs In Context

1000 Phrasal Verbs In Context © Matt Errey 2007

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1000 Phrasal Verbs in Context L l (7/8)

look into
The police are looking into the theft of your car and they’ll let you
know as soon as they find out anything.

look into sth

Could you look into the
options and costs for
shipping goods to Brazil?

✍  see also:^ check out (inf)^

look on /
upon

Many young people look upon sports stars as their heroes and role

models.

look on sb as sth

look upon sb as sth

We want our customers to
look on our staff as being
polite and knowledgeable.

✍  see also:^ think of^

look on
Many people stood by and looked on as a man who’d stepped out of a
gay club was beaten up by a gang of thugs. Nobody tried to help him.

look on

How did you feel with all
those people looking on
and no-one helping you?

✍ 

look out
Look out! There’s a car coming! Get off the road.
look out

If she hadn’t told me to
look out, I would have
been run over by the car.

✍  see also:^ watch out^

look out for
When Hiroko was young, he was always looking out for business
opportunities.

look out for sth

He always looks out for
the chance to learn from
people with experience.

✍ ^ see also:^ look for^

look over
You should get a mechanic to look the car over before you buy it. look sth over^
look over sth

Let me look over the
advertising copy before
you send it off.

✍  see also:^ check over, go

over

look
through

Could you look through last month’s invoices and put aside any that

haven’t been paid yet?

look through sth

Let’s look through the last
quarter’s sales figures and
see what we can learn.

✍  see also:^ check through,^

go through

look up
If you can’t figure out what a phrasal verb means, look it up in a
dictionary and try to find the meaning that fits the context.

look sth up

look up sth

Look up the prices on the
current price list before
giving anyone a quote.

✍ ^

look up

Last month’s sales were slow, but things are looking up this month.

We’ve had plenty of orders so far.

look up

The economy in looking

up again after a couple of

bad years.

✍ ^

look up
Don’t forget to look me up whenever you’re in New York. It’d be great
to see you.

look sb up

look up sb

Did you look up our local
distributor when you
were in New Zealand?

✍  see also:^ call on^