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HAVE A LOOK
I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Look at with attention
Example:
Get a load of this pretty woman!
Synonyms:
get a load; have a look; take a look
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "have a look" is one way to...):
look (perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Context examples:
Let us all go round and have a look at the horse together.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I must have a look at the matter.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The attendant came to tell me, so I ran down at once to have a look at him.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It chanced one summer morning, when Boy Jim and I were standing by the smithy door, that there came a private coach from Brighton, with its four fresh horses, and its brass-work shining, flying along with such a merry rattle and jingling, that the Champion came running out with a hall-fullered shoe in his tongs to have a look at it.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
However, in the morning I determined to have a look at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for Pope’s Court.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“By the way,” said he to Joseph Harrison, “you found some place, I understand, where the fellow scaled the fence. Let us have a look at that!”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now, Mr. Soames, let us have a look at your servant, Bannister.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Come outside," he suggested to Gatsby, "I'd like you to have a look at the place."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
