Example sentences of "[noun pl] and look after the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this excitement , and the feeling of being involved in a half-guessed-at mystery , became her private obsession as she went about the house , visited the shops and looked after the children . |
| 2 | They used to be part and parcel of the water authorities and looked after the rivers when we were one big body , as a water authority . |
| 3 | The male guards the next , aerates the eggs and looks after the larvae until they are able to feed for themselves . |
| 4 | The store manager saw his role as increasing productivity , whereas the personnel manager saw her role as organising and motivating staff towards the organisation 's objectives and looking after the staff 's well-being . |
| 5 | Of course it 's everything , if you ca n't afford to feed your wife and children and look after the house . |
| 6 | You finish your work and you want to relax , but you ca n't , because you have to queue for tomatoes or meat and you ca n't find it in this shop , or that , and you have to walk around and spend hours on shopping , then cook and clean and wash clothes and look after the children . |
| 7 | He had been moved to lighter work three years earlier : ‘ my Master took me from the farm work to do the House Boys work — cleaning the Boots seeing to the wood and coals and sweeping up the back yard and the paths and looking after the poultry . ’ |
| 8 | Women are doing what they can in the controlled zones — this means anything from making tortillas and looking after the kids to political and military work . |