You know what look and take mean, but you are confused with the meaning of phrasal verbs of look and take. Many of TLF students shared that they experience difficulties with phrasal verbs and here is the most common phrasal verbs with the look and take. Let’s have a look and take your knowledge to the next level.

Look – phrasal verbs

 Look ahead – think about what is going to happen in the future and make plans.

I’m trying to look ahead at what might happen and be ready to handle it.

Look around – turn to look at something; to visit a place and look at the things in it.

When we went to Barcelona, we only had a couple of hours to look around.

Look back – think about something that happened in the past.

She realized how much time she wasted when looking back on her life.

Look for – try to find something.

She is looking for the keys.

Look forward to – feel pleased and excited about something that is going to happen.

I look forward to meet with Sarah.

Look out – watch what is happening and be careful.

Look out! There’s a car coming!

 

Take – phrasal verbs

Take after – to resemble someone, especially a parent, grandparent, or other predecessor, in appearance, temperament, or character.

He takes after his grandfather.

Take against – to start to dislike something/ somebody.

She took against me.  

Take apart – to separate something

He took his phone apart to see if he could fix it.

Take away – to remove something.

She didn’t take the cat away.

Take off – to remove clothes; to leave the ground and fly ( for an aircraft)

She took off her clothes.

Take on – to accept a job or an opportunity.

She will take on this job.

Take over – to get control.

I took over the company.

Take sth back – to return something

I took the hat back.