Example sentences of "[coord] look after [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His work demonstrates that an older person was much more likely to be taken into the household of a relative if they were able to contribute something in return , for example doing domestic work , or looking after children while their mother went out to a job . |
| 2 | But many commentators saw only a decline in the desire to rear or look after children , a weakening of the cohesive effects of the family , and an associated diminution of the buoyancy of the stock in terms familiar at least since the Boer War . |
| 3 | They thought that it might be excusable to exploit situations to promote the individual MP 's career within his own party or to look after constituency interests , but it was quite inexcusable to open up opportunities for the Opposition to criticize the government . |
| 4 | And now what pleased her was loving the doll , and sewing and embroidering baby clothes , and looking after Dr Neil — particularly looking after Dr Neil — and what would Mama say to that ? |
| 5 | He he was he could plant trees , he could er er you know , he did that and he could see to planting and er er and looking after woods and things of that kind . |
| 6 | Though Sergeant was no longer in charge of " drill " ( that task now falling to the PE Department ) , he still had plenty to do , receiving visitors to the School , answering the telephone , issuing stationery , working the duplicating machine , looking after the dinner register , the absentee book , the late book , distributing correspondence , and looking after casualties . |
| 7 | We now have two Group Executive members responsible for two key parts of the world — looking after the Americas and Australia and looking after Europe . |
| 8 | By some miracle she had hung on to her job with the Caring Chauvinist , but she found it exhausting coping with that , and running the house , and looking after Perdita , and more and more after Violet and Eddie . |
| 9 | Anything to avoid staying home and looking after Hank . |
| 10 | Like yeah , because like about what he did you know he was staying up with and all this and like giving him money and looking after Andrew so he goes for my parents Jimmy 's really nice . |
| 11 | Most will have a dim idea that it 's something to do with conservation and looking after nature . |
| 12 | There are various reasons for this misconception ; men are obliged to pray three times a day , and women are exempt from time-related duties , possibly because their loyalties would conflict with running a home and looking after children . |
| 13 | It is plain that staying home and looking after children is culturally and economically undervalued by our society . |
| 14 | Working and looking after children part-time gives me the best of both worlds . |
| 15 | In future we could extend their kind of insurance benefit to people who are divorced , separated or unmarried and looking after children . |
| 16 | The first is direct discrimination , eg the refusal to recruit women because of the fear they may require time off due to child birth and looking after children . |
| 17 | In her case it was accepted that many women in their 20s are involved in child birth and looking after children with the consequences that they are out of the employment market . |
| 18 | I 've been used to domestic chores and looking after children all my adult life . ’ |
| 19 | I intended to write to you months ago about your Housework issue ( NI 181 ) but have been too busy ironing , cooking and looking after children — as well as ‘ working ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ … and , in any case , cooking and looking after children is strictly women 's work , ’ he told her flatly . |
| 21 | She had n't been out because she wanted to stay in and look after Bradley . |
| 22 | Dasha actually wants to come and look after Stavrogin , as actually as Svidrigailov is bored — ‘ especially now ’ , he says , as America looms . |
| 23 | The Horse Rangers Association was founded in 1954 by Raymond Gordon FRSA to teach young people from the age of seven and upwards how to ride and look after horses and ponies . |
| 24 | Farmers , generally speaking , like to grow crops and look after livestock rather than sell — and they prefer privacy ; but if they are to make a success of opening their farm to the public they need to be professional about it . |
| 25 | Well try and look after flats for the council . |
| 26 | Machinery Group provides : an administrator , usually part-time , to arrange all contract work and look after finances ; a small group of drivers/operators to carry out contract work and also to cover for sickness of a group member . |
| 27 | This offers some sound control ( assigning WAV files to Windows events or individual icons ) and will animate your cursor , and look after Windows wallpaper and screen savers . |
| 28 | ‘ You go and look after things ’ , he said as I was about to leave , and his last words to me were ‘ Bless you and keep you ! ’ |
| 29 | McEnroe insisted that she stay at home and look after Kevin , six , Sean , five , and one-year-old Emily . |
| 30 | She 's an actress , black-haired and exotic-eyed , who shares my love of flamenco and loves to be in the theatre and look after people . |