Example sentences of "caring for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He imagines their having a child together ; he imagines Louise 's death and his own subsequent tenderness in caring for the motherless infant ( we do not , alas , have Louise 's response to this particular flight ) . |
| 2 | Acute grief at the death of one parent may inhibit a family for caring for the surviving spouse . |
| 3 | The entire burden of hatching , feeding and caring for the young cuckoo falls on the hapless foster parents . |
| 4 | But there are certain feelings and reactions in bereavement that are common to much of the animal kingdom , including the human race , and all who are caring for the bereaved need to be aware of them , as well as being ready to accept the tremendous range of responses that people can produce from time to time in their efforts to deal with their painful situation . |
| 5 | Those who are caring for the bereaved need to be prepared to expect all kinds of strange reactions and uncharacteristic behaviour from them occasionally . |
| 6 | Friendship is about caring for the other person , respecting the other person , sharing your interests with the other person , enjoying just being with the other person — but not about suffocating the other person with big slobbering kisses ! |
| 7 | I 've spent the last year of my life caring for the wrong person . ’ |
| 8 | When we have left behind the turbulence of adolescence and shed some of the more harrowing demands of responsibility for making careers and caring for the next generation , we may seek opportunities to assess our lives and face its later stages with some serenity . |
| 9 | Reading is encouraged across the whole spectrum of nursing literature rather , reflecting in part the principles of holism ; of caring for the whole person rather than being disease or disorder linked . |
| 10 | Councils charged with caring for the public interest start to panic at the thought of this oversized weed with its excruciating sap . |
| 11 | I hope I have not made the experience of caring for the sick parent sound all gloom and sacrifice and bedpans . |
| 12 | This time he moved across to her , and she flinched back , not caring for the threatening look on his face . |