Example sentences of "to look [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But he 'd never think to look for me in such company . ’ |
| 2 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 3 | And when Mother came to look for them at eight o'clock , they were asleep in the sun . |
| 4 | We told him to look for us in the evening . |
| 5 | It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage ; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels . |
| 6 | Of course , that is what we have to look for , and , of course , there are inevitably going to be occasions when we are compelled to look for it outside the four corners of the language that the draftsman has used . |
| 7 | She 's too stuck up to look for it in the back of a cab just yet , but it 'll come to it one day when she gets a few more years on her , even the milkman wo n't be safe and she 'll be grateful . |
| 8 | Then she followed her father back towards the flock , where the sheep at the rear , desperate at the sight of hay ahead and too stupid to look for it from any source except the one they all sought , were scrambling on to each other 's backs in panic . |
| 9 | ‘ She 'll sort me out like a good Daily Telegraph lady , ’ Arlott had said when she first came to look after them at Alresford . |
| 10 | How did you manage to look after them on such a small wage ? |
| 11 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 12 | She 's going to look after them for a little while |
| 13 | They were much less gentle than the water-buffalo , which spend most of their lives doing nothing , wallowing up to their ears in mudpools , while pampered and scrubbed by the little boys who are assigned to look after them from birth . |
| 14 | It is of course necessary for someone to look after them in the home , and though there are some back-up services available , the responsibility mainly falls on one person — usually a close relative or friend , usually a woman . |
| 15 | Relatives always made disparaging remarks about me ‘ breaking the chain' of five boys , but consoled my parents that they at least had a girl to look after them in their old age . |
| 16 | The boarding-school had a few pets and we were allowed to look after them in our free time . |
| 17 | Cripps denied that the books had been improperly kept , saying that an accounts clerk had been appointed to look after them after his own health had broken down in 1917 . |
| 18 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 19 | On his death bed he had made his wife , aunt Reed , promise to look after me like her own children . |
| 20 | ‘ Luke , it 's very good of you to look after me like this . |
| 21 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 22 | For example Mrs Snell , who was looking after her husband said that she could still manage to look after him at home ; she was doing a little more for him than last year because he was physically frailer and more uncooperative , but she was getting the right amount of help and was quite satisfied . |
| 23 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 24 | Already suffering from physical ailment , and surrounded by some marvellous women who took it in turns to look after him in the evening of his life , he was a fount of ideas and vision . |
| 25 | So we really we one of us to be here to look after him in that sense , one of us gets paid |
| 26 | Michael Harvey was assigned to look after him inside the house . |
| 27 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 28 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 29 | Considering there was no one to look after her at Lomond View , I decided that the best place for her was with me . ’ |
| 30 | It would be an idea to get a girl from the village to look after her at home for two or three weeks . |