Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] after [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other reasons for returning after a long period away include : |
| 2 | By whatever means possible , will the right hon. Gentleman get in touch with Ministers to ensure that , if it is right for the Government to gain publicity over Christmas for looking after a few hundred homeless , it should be right to do something about them now so that they are not turned out on the streets ? |
| 3 | Mr Kellett calls for a major shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly in an article in the British Medical Journal . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Foster parents can often claim fostering allowances of 2–3 times the Supplementary Benefit that the natural parent would have received for looking after the same child … which is peculiarly ironic when one considers that some children might not be in foster-care at all if their parents had adequate incomes in the first place ( Fairbairns , 1976 ) . |
| 6 | In a match at Elland Road Wainwright was given his marching orders for swearing after an offside decision — but refused to go . |
| 7 | The books cover the three main areas of literature that he has come to favour since his debut into the world of writing after the 1939–45 War . |
| 8 | To take on the responsibility of looking after a frightened and disorientated family of five , who speak not a single word of English , would be an overwhelming chore for the most seasoned carer . |
| 9 | The pleasures and rewards of looking after a loved one can be immense . |
| 10 | Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children . |
| 11 | If anything Peter is more conscious of looking after the other guys . |
| 12 | It does not move them that the cost of looking after the hundreds of thousands of Thais who are likely to be infected by 1995 will far exceed that of a few cancelled holidays . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | But despite leading after the first round with a 71 he failed to make the four-round cut . |
| 15 | looks after , I , I 'm not sure exactly what he does , but he does sort of look after the Welsh Office 's own traffic counting programme . |
| 16 | They carved the longest bulletins on television into the news show we HAD to watch , launching a new genre of reporting after the stuffed-shirt formality of the BBC . |
| 17 | Mr Engholm had thought of resigning after the Social Democrats ' battering at local elections in Hesse last March . |
| 18 | But a defiant Wilkinson said : ‘ We have had a few days of mourning after the European Cup defeat , but this match gives us another route back into Europe and we know how important it is to stay on it . ’ |
| 19 | For instance , the Association of Carers ( address on page 145 ) was founded in 1981 by Judith Oliver who knows from experience what it is like to look after a disabled husband for many years . |
| 20 | He set up Whiddett for a header just wide of the mark before being booked with Ecchinswell 's Dean Nelson for retaliating after the latter had put in a late tackle . |
| 21 | Penny always gets landed with looking after the new kids in the class . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His father , Earl Bathurst , was banned from driving after a drink-drive conviction 4 years ago . |
| 24 | Midland 's expertise in looking after the financial side of your family 's welfare . |
| 25 | She was mostly absorbed in looking after the younger brother . |
| 26 | Women were especially involved in looking after the sick animals where their patience and ‘ mothering instinct ’ were valuable . |
| 27 | This is not merely a question of allocative efficiency , which we might answer by considering the resources tied up in looking after the sick or the extra output that healthier workers could produce . |
| 28 | Making money from looking after the elderly has never been more difficult . |
| 29 | He liked Curtis and he fully sympathised with his motives in going after the crazed killer on his own . |
| 30 | If the child shows a habit of prolonged crying then instead of expecting him or her to sit there for a long period of time , the first break in crying after a few minutes should be taken by the parent as an opportunity to allow the child to get up . |