Example sentences of "[modal v] look after [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At another time , He told her that she had conceived again , and when she , fearful that this would interrupt her ‘ contemplation ’ , asked how she should look after the child , Christ replied casually that he would find it a keeper . |
| 2 | He claimed Mr Marland had agreed he should look after the site and demanded money . |
| 3 | He claimed Mr Marland had agreed he should look after the site and demanded money . |
| 4 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 5 | Well yes yes and Sarah will nip down as well and then Sarah was then getting used to doing , she started getting used to doing it and that was it I used to come out and say well no I 'll look after the bar from now on and that 's it , and er |
| 6 | Then she 'll say , " Oh I 'll look after the baby . " |
| 7 | Let's go and just have a drink , Ted 'll look after the kids , your Lucy can sleep in Frieda 's bed , be a bit of company for her . ’ |
| 8 | Who 'll look after the kids ? |
| 9 | I 'll look after the lantern now . ’ |
| 10 | Her mother could look after the chickens , and he would pay for the children to go to school . |
| 11 | What we were looking for in Committee , and what the children 's legal aid centre was looking for , was a declaration that the Government 's signature to the United Nation convention on the rights of the child would be enshrined in the spirit of law in this country and that there would be independent panels that could look after the welfare of the children to ensure that their welfare was the primary consideration . |
| 12 | Marie could look after the baby and I could help out by going to the shops for fags and milk and stuff like that . |
| 13 | I 've tried to find work on a night time when my parents or my boyfriend could look after the kiddie but there just is n't that much of that kind of work around . |
| 14 | In return she 'd look after the ponies , school them and play polo . ’ |
| 15 | I got offered a part-time job in a bakery at the weekends , and he said he 'd look after the kids , but he never did , so I could n't do it . |
| 16 | You 'd go er before the baby was born and then you 'd look after the baby for the fi for a whole month . |
| 17 | I was still at school but at home I used to look after the accounts for the soap factory . |
| 18 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
| 19 | In my last job I used to look after the animals in a large zoo near the practice , where I was an assistant . |
| 20 | Well as you know I was a shepherd and I used to look after the Chichester Estate and we used to have a lot of erm lot of erm sheep in those days . |
| 21 | They had a young child , but the court did not take account of who would look after the child while they were in prison . |
| 22 | He outlined his scheme in a letter to Henry IV of Germany , whom he fondly imagined would look after the interests of the papacy in his absence , But within a year Gregory and Henry were at war , and Gregory had to divert his ‘ crusade , to deal with enemies nearer home . |
| 23 | see that the society returned to sane management , and elected only business men who would look after the society 's interests first , and seeing that the present majority favoured representation by socialists only , they should be fought one by one as they appeared for re-election , until the confidence of the membership , at present abused and outraged , was restored , and the society stood for co-operation pure and simple . |
| 24 | He would look after the government on as much of a care and maintenance basis as circumstances permitted , deciding only urgent matters and then only with Cabinet consent if this were possible . |
| 25 | Then Katrine would look after the money for the month , but it did n't work . |
| 26 | Hayling , Walsh and the others gravely signed undertakings to appear in the prospectus that they would look after the shareholders ' money and manage the company in a ‘ responsible and profitable manner ’ . |
| 27 | The civilians would look after the waves of foreign investment lapping into Thailand , while the armed forces would retain their grip on many state-owned enterprises and would be given a free hand to run Thailand 's relations with its neighbours . |
| 28 | ‘ I would n't mind , ’ she explained , ‘ but they just took it for granted that she would go back to work and I would look after the baby , without even asking me . ’ |
| 29 | Mother Francis sighed and prayed silently that the Lord would look after the soul of Jack Malone . |
| 30 | If I had a son he would look after the goats and go fishing with my husband . |