Look over

AnonymousPlease, what's the meaning of: He looked over to the hospital. ?

Thanks,

Shantie

This is vague. "He looked [over] at the hospital" is one possibility. "He looked [over] toward the hospital" is another. I'm not sure what is intended.

Hi Philip,

I got it from a joke. It says: "A man walks past a hospital and hears a voice. Then he looks over to the hospital and sees a hole in the wall, he looks through the hole and gets poked in the eye...."

And so? Is it perhaps a typing mistake? Or is it correct to say in this case, he looks over to the hospital. And what does it mean?

T

Perhaps this in a situation where a narrator has a character who is observing a landscape from some vantage point from which the character can see a number of buildings in the distance. The phrase "looked over to" would then suggest to me that this character had been looking at one part of this landscape and now has shifted his gaze to another quadrant, in which the hospital appears at some dis

He looks in the direction of the hospital from the place he is in.

Thanks, Spides.

Best wishes,

Shantie.

Thanks, Marius Hancu.

Best wishes,

Shantie.