Example sentences of "[v-ing] after the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gazing after the covered metal container , she said : |
| 2 | Samson was amongst them , rooting after the unseen joker . |
| 3 | Intrasentential candidates occurring after the current anaphor . |
| 4 | The New Musical Express , stumbling after the new wave , advertised bells and full hippy regalia , from the people who had brought Beatle jackets to the young . |
| 5 | Wilcox , who had been frowning after the departing figure of Everthorpe , turned and almost smiled . |
| 6 | However , where the assumption is a letting for a term expiring after the actual term on the terms of the actual lease , the hypothetical lease may have a long period without review . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend said that the county council 's not looking after the elderly properly was a reflection of the will of Labour councillors . |
| 8 | Mr Kellett calls for a major shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly in an article in the British Medical Journal . |
| 9 | Making money from looking after the elderly has never been more difficult . |
| 10 | Mother Theresa has spent her whole life looking after the poor and sick children and babies on the streets of Calcutta . |
| 11 | Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children . |
| 12 | If anything Peter is more conscious of looking after the other guys . |
| 13 | Penny always gets landed with looking after the new kids in the class . |
| 14 | Midland 's expertise in looking after the financial side of your family 's welfare . |
| 15 | Kalchu 's younger brother had come over from his neighbouring hut and the two men sat spinning , talking and looking after the small children until their wives returned . |
| 16 | Looking after the tender abutilon |
| 17 | There is indeed a suggestive correlation between the mode of fertilization and the sex that ends up looking after the young . |
| 18 | In 1916 , when her daughter Carrie 's husband was killed at the Somme , she managed that too , looking after the three-year old my mother , so that Carrie could go on working at the mill . |
| 19 | To meet the needs of piston-engine operators worldwide , a small number of specialist concerns thrive looking after the precious radial engine that go a long way towards making the DC-3 and DC-6 such economic miracle workers . |
| 20 | The idea of the Big Chief Exec himself crashing in on the detail seems a poor use of resources itself and no more a guarantee of success when he should be looking after the whole business ( you have heard the litany : ‘ At first he came to every meeting , then occasionally he was called away , then he sent some deputy or other , and in the end we thought , what 's the point , if he does n't care , why should we ? ’ ) . |
| 21 | The kind milkman is now looking after the stray dog , which must have consumed more than 100 pints of milk , until a home can be found for him . |
| 22 | Nobody has the monopoly of wisdom and it 's important , it seems to me , that you have economists keeping an eye on the economics of the situation , sociologists looking after the cultural and individual choice sides , psychologists , people 's appraisal of their environment , geographers saying this sort of development is more appropriate there because of environmental conditions than there , and so on . |
| 23 | THOSE who are charged with looking after the royal stables are given the title of equerry , but this has nothing to do with equus , the Latin word for a horse . |
| 24 | other remark , which I ca n't let go unchallenged , that ninety percent of mental health work in the m community is looking after the worried well . |
| 25 | Managers are required to put down a small security deposit , but all equipment is provided by the company , which also pays staff wages and overhead expenses , together with a small additional honorarium ( currently 5 per cent of husband 's salary ) to the manager 's wife for looking after the domestic accommodation . |
| 26 | It is all too easy to sacrifice every waking moment to the duties of running the house and looking after the physical needs of the patient and other members of the family . |
| 27 | On the whole , Agnes enjoyed looking after the little house . |
| 28 | Could I ask you very quickly on that note , do you think the answer is to try and set up a voting mechanism amongst the deferred pensioners , or is the answer that one should actually appoint a professional independent trustee , specifically with the duties of looking after the deferred pensioners in the debates that you have identified often take place ? |
| 29 | Now in one of the most prestigious and historic posts in the country , he includes looking after the Old Bailey among his new responsibilities . |
| 30 | Er well I was doing all kinds really there was a staff then and of servants but I was lo I was er looking after the old lady more than anything . |