Example sentences of "[vb pp] after [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woodwork can be clearly seen and the turned balusters have been looked after over the years . |
| 2 | Not all the interests of our citizens have been looked after over the last twelve years . |
| 3 | It enables everyone involved to understand the Process that is going on , it makes it possible for grieving people to be looked after for a while , but not to sink into a chronic mourning state , because everyone knows when it is meant to be finished , and when the bereaved people are meant to pick up their responsibilities again . |
| 4 | Even then , it is looked after for a further two or three weeks . |
| 5 | He and his wife retired to Countess Street , in Heaviley , not far from the buildings and fields he had looked after for a lifetime so conscientiously , with cheerful whistle and every-ready smile . |
| 6 | They released me for the day and I sat in a cab desperately trying to keep calm whilst my mind raced through the practicalities of getting Mum back — cancelling the filming , getting the kids looked after for a while if … |
| 7 | I think the public wants to know that all those people , and their families , who suffered in the war will be looked after for the rest of their lives . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Carol Barratt is going to be looked after for the rest of her life , and looked after well , whereas life for us is never going to be the same again . ’ |
| 9 | A WIDOW has left nearly £135,000 to an animal charity on the condition that her cats are well looked after for the rest of their lives . |
| 10 | I found that most of the animals in the circuses were looked after with a great deal of care and attention . |
| 11 | Mrs Burke leaves a remarkable house which deserves to be looked after with the same care that she has lavished on it for almost 20 years . |
| 12 | Communally maintained for the benefit of all the residents , the setting of the house remains unchanged with a certainty that it will be looked after on a continuing basis . |
| 13 | Hayling had realized that although women 's interests were being looked after on the paper , there was already suspicion of NoS in the black community . |
| 14 | John 's now looked after at a specialist nursing home in Dorset , and undergoes regular physiotherapy at Bournemouth general hospital . |
| 15 | With new technology making our lives easier by the day , it 's good to know that the environment is being looked after at the same time . |
| 16 | There are 120 cats and dogs being looked after at the RSPCA 's animal shelter in Whitminster near Stroud . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's looked after like a little princess . ’ |
| 18 | Whatever plans the local authority may have the court will have in mind the underlying philosophy of the Act that " children are best looked after within the family with both parents playing a full part and without resort to legal proceedings " ( Guidance , vol 1 , para 1.5 ) . |
| 19 | That 's difficult , when you were brought up to believe you would be looked after from the cradle to the grave . |
| 20 | When Ben was eventually found , in the Chapel House Estate , it was discovered that he had previously been looked after in a place called Jesmond . |
| 21 | There are countries where you might enter and be looked after in a hospitable way ; you do not feel that could happen in England . |
| 22 | During a trip with his amateur mountaineering father the rains came and young Simon spent four days being looked after in a Buddhist teaching monastery . |
| 23 | They need to explore , socialise , mix with interested adult company and be looked after in a warm and friendly environment . |
| 24 | Now and then , waiters would serve us refreshing drinks from the bar and while we were busy unwinding , we were happy to know that the children were being well looked after in the Children 's Club . |
| 25 | Now Wedgwood generously agreed to waive the buy-back clause in return for a series of covenants ensuring that the house would be restored and looked after in the future . |
| 26 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 27 | It is clearly undesirable and often more expensive to admit or keep in district general hospitals or long stay hospitals old or mentally ill or mentally handicapped people who could be properly looked after in the community . |
| 28 | This may be appropriate , not only because hospital beds are usually expensive but also because most people prefer to be looked after in the community . |
| 29 | Fabrics are expensive , but they will last for years and give great pleasure provided they are looked after in the proper manner . |
| 30 | For most mentally-ill people are being looked after in the community anyway , by relatives and friends who can not bring themselves to have the people they love locked away . |