Example sentences of "[prep] her [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'll end up running after her along the platform , bundling books and plaice and Government papers in through the window of the carriage at her as the train moves out … |
| 2 | Hordes of admirers screech that they would be only too willing to take Kylie home and look after her for a while . |
| 3 | Maurice stared after her for a moment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Snappy bounded after her for a few yards , then scampered away to follow his mistress . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | My wife still knows a person born shortly after her at the same maternity hospital . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Obviously she is very upset being left alone in a strange country and we are looking after her at the police station . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I skipped after her down the street . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She left abruptly and Emily closed the door after her with a sigh of relief . |
| 15 | I looked after her as a baby , you know . |
| 16 | And so you looked after her as a housekeeper did you ? |
| 17 | She would employ 250,000 men and women in over 80 British towns and cities , and drag 1 , 006 tons of chains after her into the Clyde at her launch , but she was still 534 until the day a city went to sea and the farmer 's field was flooded across from the Glasgow Road . |
| 18 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought we were going to talk after this weekend , ’ Vitor demurred , strolling after her into the drawing-room . |
| 20 | Perhaps , thought Robert , as he trudged after her towards the iron gates , this was a signal for their lovemaking to become more decorous . |
| 21 | Later he became less abusive and rather pathetically said that he kept himself to himself , that the girl was not roaming the streets getting into trouble like the girls who went to school , that company now would be cruel and shameful to an old man who had provided her with a home , protected her and looked after her in every way . |
| 22 | Was n't he supposed to be looking after her in a sanatorium ? ’ |
| 23 | The others gaze after her in a casual way and resume their Beatles medley . |
| 24 | The winner will receive a bottle of champagne on her birthday every year and will have a vine named after her in the Veuve Clicquot vineyard . |
| 25 | She sincerely believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world . |
| 26 | Alice afterwards — in an effort to safeguard her position — claimed that it was the queen who had summoned her and who had promised to look after her in the future . |
| 27 | Arnie had never looked after her in the way Guido meant , performing the sort of small but pleasing acts of chivalry that seemed to come so naturally to him . |
| 28 | She eyed , with as much dispassion as she could muster , the broad athlete 's physique of the man opposite her across the white-clothed table . |
| 29 | As she sat down on the couch , Ben sat opposite her on the settle , his big body and large head topping the back of it while his short legs hardly touched the floor . |
| 30 | She watched as he sat opposite her on the worn old sofa and proceeded to pour the brandy into the glasses . |