Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] after the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've sent my sister in to look after the other lads . ’ |
| 2 | Those who had initially wanted to go on looking after the dementia sufferer at home ( nine carers ) were also mainly content with the institutional care arrangement . |
| 3 | So it was agreed that while Mrs MacDonagh would go on looking after the two youngest Milligans during the day , Dermot , Fergal and Mike , the eldest brothers , would take over as soon as they were back from school . |
| 4 | He carried on racing after the war and in 1946 , at the age of 54 , won the Albi Grand Prix . |
| 5 | off to look after the |
| 6 | What did you go on to do after the business folded ? |
| 7 | Despite receiving a lot of help she gave up looking after the child , asking her mother-in-law to do so with increasing frequency . |
| 8 | There is indeed a suggestive correlation between the mode of fertilization and the sex that ends up looking after the young . |
| 9 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 10 | I helped set up WIN after the war and was one of its representatives in London . |
| 11 | can sail into a beautiful old age with enthusiasm for hobbies , taking up new interests of all sorts and I 've taken up skiing after the age of fifty and I 'm , I feel I 'm getting on well with it and this fresh air and and you know , getting out and finding who you really are after , you know , looking after children is is a wonderful thing ! |
| 12 | Oh , I was n't and erm , the next thing I know I 've nearly fucking been bowled over , sort of the bags in fucking look behind me , so those two fucking bought the bags back down fucking legs and I 've just caught this like running round another , another thing , I thought oh fucking little kid , the next thing I know there 's another one gone pass me like , taken the bags , the handles out of the plastic bags , fucking and it was a girl that was going first this time , so I and sure enough there was a little fucking brat boy coming again , so I just went flying he sort of looked up at me and rubbed his eye like that and carried on running after the . |
| 13 | Phillipson has pointed to more direct state management of retirement , in order to regulate the size of the labour force , yet the well-known attempts by the government to induce retirees back to work after the Second World War were notable for their lack of success ; the reserve army of elderly labour was highly resistant to re-enlistment . |
| 14 | ‘ Robert did n't say I must go back to work after the baby ’ , Lucy told me , ‘ but he began to be reluctant about switching on electric fires and looking disapproving if I did ’ . |
| 15 | One woman described how she had gone back to work after the death of her husband , determined to be brave . |
| 16 | The ladies who help out look after the children so it works very well |
| 17 | She asked the question half fearfully , almost afraid at what she might be about to hear after the event of the previous day . |