Example sentences of "[noun] looked after the " in BNC.

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1 He delivered the letters and ran a little bit of a farm he owned , whilst his wife looked after the Post Office .
2 Groa looked after the Bishop as he retreated .
3 Father looked after the bar .
4 ‘ Mrs McDougall — no , I think it was Archie McLaren — told me that your father looked after the garden there . ’
5 Reginald looked after the large estate , while Lady Dorothy took charge of the house and the twenty-three-acre garden .
6 Edwin was a veterinary surgeon and Daisy looked after the animals who were sometimes boarded with them .
7 Orchard House old peoples home in Sandford won a major safety award five months ago for the way staff looked after the residents .
8 ‘ In those days your servants looked after the heavy luggage .
9 In the evenings I taught my son , Branwell , and my wife 's sister looked after the youngest child , Anne .
10 Pascoe looked after the vanishing figure .
11 The missionary looked after the islanders ’ health as well as their spiritual welfare .
12 Wendy looked after the dogs , one of which was Pete .
13 The men looked after the fields and the garden .
14 He wanted them to have their own little place , where Janine looked after the baby all day and cooked his meal in the evening .
15 Alan continued to work hard at his course , and Carolyn looked after the baby and kept house .
16 Convocation was again represented on GRADUATION DAYS 11 and 12 July 1991 , when two different committee members took part in the procession at each of the four congregations , whilst others looked after the ‘ free orange juice ’ bar , explained Convocation and handed out Convocation Registration forms to reinforce the information sent by post to all graduands .
17 Experts agree that in reality , the company looked after the workforce no better than most other employers of that time .
18 My mother looked after the chickens .
19 Boraston was thus directly involved in administration , and Central Office looked after the organization of recruiting meetings ; the Liberal offices dealt with literature for recruitment and Malcolm Fraser was transferred to Abingdon Street to help with the management of the press .
20 On the small farms the woman of the house looked after the home and the farmyard — stable and cattle-byre , pigsty , hen-house , hayrick and turfrick , the straw-covered pit of turnips and mangels .
21 I think Tony gave him confidence because Tony looked after the day-to-day worries of how one paid for what one was going to do .
22 My mam looked after the baby and I did a job on a scheme looking after old people .
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