Example sentences of "look [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Who looks after your child ? |
| 32 | Your mother looks after your son , does n't she ? |
| 33 | He could afford this , for the royal household had brazenly looked after its own . |
| 34 | In the course of time Aunt Nessy , having looked after her adoptive parents until they died , was left a small sum of money . |
| 35 | Joanne , 13 , says simply : ‘ Mum has n't just looked after her own children , she has looked after so many others . |
| 36 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 37 | you put them in the pram but she 's looked after her neighbour 's two children has n't she ? |
| 38 | Some had never had a job because they 'd looked after their mams and dads . |
| 39 | I 've lived with three different families and looked after their children . |
| 40 | Some of the kennels young residents are lucky — they 're being looked after their real mother … |
| 41 | If someone like a foster carer , relative or a step-parent has looked after your child for 3 years or more they can apply to a court for custody of your child even if you disagree . |
| 42 | If someone has looked after your child for 5 years or more they could apply to the court for permission to adopt your child . |
| 43 | The Shrimptons have looked after our affairs ever since my great grandfather started the business in 1900 . |
| 44 | Uncle Bill had looked after my grandmother until she died when I was a baby . |
| 45 | I have looked after my husband for seven years , he had a brain tumour operation nearly eight years ago , and he 's in a wheelchair he ca n't walk , but his , after the first two years of caring for him , he 's become bright enough to do the Daily Telegraph crossword , and so he 's er erm brain 's alright . |
| 46 | erm I could n't have looked after my mum . |
| 47 | I have looked after his books for forty years and that 's all I know , so he gave me the capital to start and here I am . ’ |
| 48 | Mr. J. praised the nurses who had looked after his mother , and did not blame them in any way for her death . |
| 49 | A man serving in the R.A.F. wrote to say that he was deeply indebted to the doctors and nurses who had looked after his wife when she had been admitted with a complicated confinement , which had needed an operation . |
| 50 | He had looked after his younger brothers and sister , he had made sure that she always had enough money , but she had been hearing things of late that had frightened her . |
| 51 | A child who has always looked after his own asthma is less likely to rebel later and discard inhalers or start smoking . |
| 52 | The Christian Spanish had looked towards their Moslem neighbours as arbiters of culture and learning . |
| 53 | She 's got Ruth , a Shirley 's Ann , to me , looks more like Judith than she looks like her mother . |
| 54 | So she looks like a princess and she looks like her mum . |
| 55 | She looks like her brother . |
| 56 | It looks like its got a few tricks up its sleeve about Solaris-on-Intel as well : expect announcements of some OEMs . |
| 57 | Looks like its gon na be a complete waste of time watching next years WC . |
| 58 | However , Wilko 's ‘ reply ’ looks like its been taken out of context to me . |
| 59 | The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er |
| 60 | It looks like our ‘ friends ’ at the end of the East Lancs could be awaiting another 25 , or is it 26 years now ! |