Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've sent my sister in to look after the other lads . ’ |
| 2 | It seemed that she was the mother , but her sister , a prostitute , had locked her in to look after her children while she was out ‘ on the game ’ . |
| 3 | Then she asked if I would consider returning home with someone living in to look after me . |
| 4 | If the carer moves in to look after a couple ( eg elderly parents ) on the death of one spouse the tenancy goes to the surviving spouse . |
| 5 | Anne had continued to visit the Misses Dolan frequently even after Margaret had moved in to look after them , and been very happy to see her old friends so well cared for and so delighted with Margaret 's lively little girl . |
| 6 | Perhaps I could suggest her getting someone in to look after him and she could come for half time . |
| 7 | and that that 's why the Americans came into the war , they did n't come into the war to look after us , they came in to look after their own interest in the |
| 8 | Mummy has bought daddy some nice chocolates to eat and we 're going to have a special dinner and then next Saturday Nanna Nanna and Del are coming down to look after you |
| 9 | We 're coming down to look after you on Saturday . |
| 10 | the old ballad of the Children in the Wood who , when they lay down to sleep after wandering about , abandoned by the man who tried to murder them , were covered with leaves by friendly robins , HM 3 ; ‘ them as was kivered by robin redbreasts ’ . |
| 11 | I promised to ring him , if he did n't ring me first , reassured her again that everything was fine and that she did n't need to drive over to look after me . |
| 12 | The reason for this is traditional : Roman friends were often called on to look after property or to care for members of a family . |
| 13 | The next day I went to see the military commander to ask for permission to stay on to look after stray people and perhaps give pastoral care to the officials and troops left in the city . |
| 14 | For Bernadette Quli , that worry turned into a nightmare when the woman she had taken on to look after her six-month-old daughter , Farrah , fled to Ireland with the baby . |
| 15 | Well I sa , I mean I took her on to look after her and I did n't think there would any problem |
| 16 | off to look after the |
| 17 | The Republican advertisement shows Angelo Errichett , the Mayor of Camden — which is in Mr Florio 's district — being dragged off to jail after his conviction for corruption . |
| 18 | Mm what did you go on to do after that ? |
| 19 | What did you go on to do after the business folded ? |
| 20 | Towards the end of her 40-week maternity leave , a childminder who was lined up to look after her baby suddenly pulled out . |
| 21 | With her career , like herself , in better shape than ever , could Cher really give it up to look after kids ? |
| 22 | Then Connie would move into the sanatorium along with a lot of legal talent he had lined up to look after his interests — and Connie 's , too , of course — and I 'd head for home with my five hundred . ’ |
| 23 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 24 | ‘ I worked in a crèche before I had to give that up to look after Gran . |
| 25 | One idea , being mooted by some of the Russian representatives at the United Nations , is that the UN 'S trusteeship council , set up to look after colonies en route to independence , be converted into a trusteeship council for the planet . |
| 26 | When you and I went up to look after them ? |
| 27 | Benedick stays in prose , however , after the overhearing — perhaps there is something in him truly resistant to romance — whereas Beatrice moves up to verse after her duping ( II.i.107–16 ) . |
| 28 | The women have a lot more catching up to do after last year 's bottom place , but new coach Alan McMurray is quietly confident they can come closer to their 1991 success . |
| 29 | ( I was keen to strain some of the vicious Barny 's blood out of any future little owlets , so that they would n't grow up to take after their grandfather ! ) |
| 30 | The evil turd of a landlord , a vacuous smile on his slack face , came up to enquire after my health . |