Example sentences of "[prep] she [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hordes of admirers screech that they would be only too willing to take Kylie home and look after her for a while . |
| 2 | Maurice stared after her for a moment . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Snappy bounded after her for a few yards , then scampered away to follow his mistress . |
| 5 | No , yeah I 'll come with you , you go off and stay with Joyce , look after her for a little while and let Kenneth sort things out ! |
| 6 | Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year . |
| 7 | He embarked on his career of gillie in 1849 as Prince Albert 's gillie , and was mentioned in the queen 's journal on 11 September 1849 as ‘ young J. Brown ’ who looked after her on an outing . |
| 8 | Their mother had been forever running after her with a pencil box or an exercise book or a threepenny piece for church collection , and the maid had turned up a lost doll , a coin , a glove in every corner . |
| 9 | She left abruptly and Emily closed the door after her with a sigh of relief . |
| 10 | I looked after her as a baby , you know . |
| 11 | And so you looked after her as a housekeeper did you ? |
| 12 | Was n't he supposed to be looking after her in a sanatorium ? ’ |
| 13 | The others gaze after her in a casual way and resume their Beatles medley . |
| 14 | Our Lady of Lourdes looked at the doorway opposite her in a gesture of supplication . |
| 15 | He straightened up and pulled another chair closer , sitting opposite her in an attitude of relaxed attention . |
| 16 | She did not dare look down , but she could feel the machine moving below her like a maddened metal beast prowling backwards and forwards in a pit , its metal jaws opening and closing , clanging and gnashing with thwarted fury . |
| 17 | I watched through George 's window as Filmer made great effort to go towards her with a smile , drawing attention away from the gaunt-faced man , who returned to the station . |
| 18 | Constance had no time to assess the bewildering exchange of tone that the lunch party had taken before Giancarlo was walking towards her with a vivacious woman by his side who was busily blowing kisses and calling ‘ Ciao ’ to the tables she passed . |
| 19 | As she joined him in the petit salon he came towards her with a prettily wrapped package in his hands . |
| 20 | On Luke 's advice , she had n't mentioned any of his misgivings about the deal she had struck , and the woman now behaved towards her with a patronising graciousness that Folly found intensely irritating . |
| 21 | Her voice trailed away completely as he reached lazily towards her with a long arm . |
| 22 | Rupert repeated his earlier greeting and came towards her with a glass jug that looked as if it contained some kind of cocktail . |
| 23 | Matt noticed her silence , and as he negotiated the bumps and pot-holes in the rough road he leaned towards her with a comment . |
| 24 | When she threw a look over her shoulder , however , he had n't given up at all , but was prowling towards her with a bemused smile on his face . |
| 25 | ‘ What you told me last night , Rachel , only convinced me that this marriage could work , ’ he said softly , and walked towards her with a look of intent in his blue eyes that sent panic rushing through her in hot waves . |
| 26 | The taxi drove down the winding white drive and Tony got up , coming towards her with a frown . |
| 27 | Occasionally , he took his hand off the gear lever and reached out for hers , and sometimes he glanced towards her with a look so full of tenderness that she felt she could weep for joy . |
| 28 | Oh , sure , about as safe as a shield of plastic wrap would make her feel if a bear were charging towards her at a full gallop . |
| 29 | She stopped to catch a child by the hand and whisper some word which was rewarded with a kiss , then caught the corner of her veil to cover her already masked face as the chief driver came towards her for a quick answer to a query , always given and received after the words of greeting and queries as to health had been exchanged . |
| 30 | Hurrying towards her across a central green which had been planted out with trees and flowers . |