Example sentences of "[noun sg] to look [prep] the child " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most countries within the EC , including Germany , Portugal , Belgium , Denmark and Italy , have introduced the concept of parental leave — a period of leave given to either parent to look after the child up to the age of two — in addition to maternity leave . |
| 2 | When the parents of an illegitimate child separated , the father paid a neighbour £1 per week to look after the child . |
| 3 | Renshaw has returned to work after the birth of her first child and employed a nanny to look after the child . |
| 4 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 5 | I leaned over the bed to look at the child . |