Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] look after " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began to despise other men who did not look after themselves . |
| 2 | A little later Bacon appeared , walked up to their table and asked Minton why he did not look after his back numbers . |
| 3 | His parents , Malcolm and Susan Mallard , of Blacon , Chester , claim the Ministry of Defence did not look after him properly . |
| 4 | He would be lost in the city on his own and besides he must not forget about his grandparents — they would die if he did not look after them . |
| 5 | There is a law in physics , identified by Isaac Newton , which says in essence that everything falls apart without energy : if you do not maintain your house , it will fall down ; if you do not look after your business , it will fall apart . |
| 6 | The argument was on the semantics of how post-sixteen education is presently offered in Banbury , and whereas , of course , they had every right to use the opting out legislation as a governing body , it must be said that the possibility of success under those terms erm is somewhat untried , because of course legislation was specifically geared at Local Education Authorities that do not look after their schools , and thus schools are able to opt out of a badly run , inefficient Education Authority , and we 've seen that happen in many of the urban areas in the country , and indeed some schools have not opted for that . |
| 7 | Tock muttered something about how irritating water could be if you did n't look after it . |
| 8 | Closing her mind to her mother was a survival skill Dorothy had learned many years ago when she realised that if she did n't look after her , no-one else was going to . |
| 9 | If he did n't look after Timmy I would n't be here . ’ |
| 10 | Not that the Roman aristocracy did n't look after the people who worked for them — though people nowadays do n't like it when you say so — servants did n't sleep the way they did in Tsarist Russia or at Versailles before the revolution , but it still did n't seem good enough to Anna — I told you she was American ? — so Mena always had a nice room of her own ; later on too , at Brown 's Hotel . |
| 11 | She said all children wanted dogs and then did n't look after them . |
| 12 | I mean these characters nobody realizes that that that in America , Motown did n't look after their stars very well . |
| 13 | I had the feeling that he thought that his father did n't look after Lou well enough . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And just who dares to say that I do n't look after my son properly ? |
| 15 | ‘ If you do n't look after your body you have no place at this club . ’ |
| 16 | If we do n't look after her , who will ? |
| 17 | If you do n't look after their feet it you , which is very important indeed you , see . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's accepted that doctors do n't look after their own families . |
| 19 | If our county councillors do n't look after us then the future is bleak . |
| 20 | Shame about that bungalow next door but one , cos that 'd be a nice bungalow but it 's not very lovely they do n't look after it very well . |
| 21 | ‘ At the end of the day , if a shop , garage or hotel does not look after its customers , they might not complain , but they may not come back . ’ |
| 22 | If the company does n't look after its documents , does it give it a justification for a journalist being asked to reveal his source ? ’ |
| 23 | The problem in terms purely of resourcing is if , if one does n't look after the not so seriously mentally ill they very rapidly c become the very seriously mentally ill with considerable financial resourcing problems and also enormous manpower problems because they do then tend to need twenty four hour close supervision nursing and not care in the community which can be done on a part-time basis and the implications of that are frightening . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll bet Arnie does n't look after you as well as this . ’ |
| 25 | Then he added with a wink , clearly teasing her , ‘ But all the same , I 'll bet Arnie does n't look after you like this . ’ |