1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Expectatus, desyred, taried, & looked for.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1734) II. vii. 478 He..put the strong Places in the best posture he could; Lerida was the most exposed, and so was the best looked to.

1854 tr. F. W. C. Gerstaecker Tales of Desert & Bush 157 This wooden booth was the much looked-to asylum.

1964 H. L. Dreyfus & P. A. Dreyfus tr. M. Merleau-Ponty Sense & Non-Sense iv. 52 The looked-at object in which I anchor myself will always seem fixed.

1990 E. K. Sedgwick Epistemol. of Closet ii. 106 The looked-upon body of some other man who has been made an example of.

1996 E. D. Hirsch Schools we Need v. 154 The procedure is clearly a very different and far more reliable mode of thinking than the error-prone method of applying formal techniques to looked-up data.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Expectatus The long loked day was come.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion iv. 60 Such hasto vnto this long-lookt howre.

1856 Mrs. Stephens' Illustr. New Monthly July 19/1 The well-looked-after girls having severally courtesied, according to their age, entered the carriage with Lady Belinda.

1905 Poultry Jan. 19/1 Geese on the farm, treated as a well looked after side issue to general farming.

1993 Children Act 1989: Rep. Secretaries of State for Health & Wales ii. 30 in Parl. Papers 1992–3 (Cm. 2144) The number of unallocated cases has risen to 164, that is, a quarter of the authority's looked after children.

1998 Community Care 5 Feb. 51/1 (advt.) The plan is to eventually achieve a specialised structure with Teams covering Intake/Assessment, Family Support and a Looked After Team.

2009 M. Smith Rethinking Resid. Child Care i. 1 Since the election of the New Labour government in 1997 looked-after children have featured prominently in policy agendas.

2012 Vancouver Province (Nexis) 22 Aug. b3 Another stereotype that Symonds..said people should toss aside is that the other woman is a looked-after woman.

1611 R. Brathwait Golden Fleece sig. D8 A lookt for summons, yet not much desirde, For what man liuing will desire his fall?

1768 A. Young in Crit. Rev. Dec. 435 Ready at a moment's warning for the looked-for event, he would have executed his purpose in its full extent.

1896 A. Austin England's Darling i. iii. 26 And, should the looked-for shock be on us soon, I must be there!

1950 Billboard 7 Jan. 68/1 Such double operations are not the looked-for answer to a more uniform level of year-round returns.

2010 M. A. Halleran Better Angels of our Nature vii. 155 In some Masonic jurisdictions, this looked-for liberality was not forthcoming.

1832 N.-Y. Mirror 26 Jan. 236/1 A good-looking, smooth-faced, self-sufficient, young gentleman, the leader, the looked-up-to of the society.

1876 City-road Mag. Sept. 422/2 What wonder then that..the most trusted and looked-up to leaders of the Body, should manifest a strong repugnance to an alteration so large and so important.

1903 M. B. Betham-Edwards Humble Lover v. 54 Abroad he was the oracle, the teacher, the looked-up-to upon every occasion.

1984 P. Fitzgerald Charlotte Mew i. 18 Henry, four years older than Charlotte, at a time of life when four years make the most difference, was the looked-up-to elder brother.

2010 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 7 Aug. a1 He's just a very looked-up-to figure in all of the downtown crowd.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. iv. 11 Leane-lookt prophets whisper fearefull change. View more context for this quotation

1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells viii. 553 An old hag, habited and lookt as the Poets describe the Eumenides or Furies.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. i. 68 Never trust a modest-lookt Stallion.

1666 S. Pepys Diary 17 Aug. (1972) VII. 250 A strange fortune for so odd a looked maid.

1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War i. 24 A great surly look'd fellow took up his Tomhog, or wooden Cutlash, to kill Mr. Church.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 97 He was as ugly a look'd Fellow as ever I saw.

1744 Coll. Poems Several Hands 48 A gen'ral horror seizes on the fair, While white-look'd cowards only not despair.

1820 J. Crawfurd Hist. Indian Archipel. III. 225 They were very poor-looked creatures.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ii. 31 Ay, an' she's a pleasant-looked 'un too.

1901 C. Steevens Motley Crew 99 Very few people can pass a starved-looked child and not give it something if it begs and looks piteous.

2005 J. Brand It's Different for Girls iv. 48 Staring at the floor whilst said friend is wooed by a series of young men whom very average-looked self could not hope to bag.