What is "get a look"

Usage examples of "get a look".

I kept tilting my head back every once in a while to get a look at the puffy white clouds that dotted the deep blue sky.

I banked, turned to get a look at the huffing brown mountain hooting its anger at us, and grinned.

Wells, in his trilogy, The Outline of History, The Science of Life and The Work, Wealth, and Happiness of Mankind, is, so far as I know, the only writer who has ever lived who has tried to draw for the rest of us a full picture of the whole world, past and future, everything about us, so we can stand off and get a look at ourselves.

As he came through the undergrowth the animal fled, but he did get a look at it.