Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After nearly perishing on the moors , she is taken in and cared for by the Reverend St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana . |
| 2 | I hope that the Minister gives the assurances about timing asked for by the hon. Member for Chislehurst . |
| 3 | Here are the charts , as voted for by the readers of the disk-magazine Remark : |
| 4 | ADEMA captured 76 of the 116 seats voted for by the internal electorate ; 13 seats were reserved for Malians abroad . |
| 5 | Two years later the tax was extended to include Nonconformist registrations — a move petitioned for by the Dissenting churches themselves , who welcomed the official sanction of their records . |
| 6 | In their absence Pete will be looked after by the Bible College 's bursar and husband in Malton . |
| 7 | In Bangladesh children under the age of five or six are looked after by the whole family . |
| 8 | Up to now they have been well looked after by the Pakistan government and established in villages of 50,000 to 60,000 people . |
| 9 | The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine . |
| 10 | Dr Zhurid said Brightness and Gorgeous , the other beluga , would be looked after by the Moscow-based Institute of Evolution and Animal Morphology . |
| 11 | You will be made very welcome in his pretty ‘ Hansel and Gretel ’ Gasthof , and very well looked after by the friendly owner , Frau Henn . |
| 12 | Blake , now aged 67 , has been well looked after by the KGB and lives in considerable comfort with his second wife Ida and their son Mischa . |
| 13 | Certainly one would visit the cottage at Higher Bockhampton where Hardy was born ( now looked after by the National Trust ) and Stinsford church where his heart is buried . |
| 14 | More recently , White Parks have been exported to other parts of the USA and also to Canada , Australia , Denmark and France , but they are a precious resource and carefully looked after by the breed society which was formed in 1983 . |
| 15 | The other child is still being looked after by the parents who took her home . |
| 16 | Baby Two is still being looked after by the parents who took it home . |
| 17 | As soon as they 're installed in the Green Room , guests are looked after by the Floor Manager . |
| 18 | In a smaller company , the pension scheme may be looked after by the company secretary or managing director . |
| 19 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 20 | I am conducting research into the education provision and support for young people who are looked after by the local authority . |
| 21 | It was also nice for our three children , because it was surrounded by a garden that was looked after by the College gardeners . |
| 22 | The Cutty Sark is now looked after by the Maritime Trust , who teamed up with the Cutty Sark Society in 1989 . |
| 23 | Her name was She-Who-Is-Alone and she had been looked after by the tribe since her parents and grandparents died in the famine . |
| 24 | They are not kept thoroughly clean , as they were when they were looked after by the local authorities . |
| 25 | Ordering replenishment and display may be looked after by the publisher and this can lift a lot of the administrative burden of stock control from the shop , although they are normally offered only where sales justify it . |
| 26 | The seneschal looked briefly at the quivering attendant being looked after by the others , then he shrugged and said something to the under-cook , who quickly got back down off the stool and turned to the others . |
| 27 | It is as much a benefit for the father to have the child looked after by the mother as by a neighbour . |
| 28 | The men of the family always formed a very solid front to the outside world , and at times to their womenfolk , and as it had been the custom among their people for children to be looked after by the men on the mother 's side of the family , especially if a brother had no issue of his own , they did n't see why the sisters were making such a fuss . |
| 29 | These were looked after by the Board of Works — the lineal descendant of the Office of the King 's Works , which built many of the castles and palaces which its successor bodies , including Historic Scotland , now care for . |
| 30 | I think er the supporters like to be er looked after by the sort of their own people rather than er the the police force . |