Example sentences of "[v-ing] after [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , of course , it can work the other way round ; I recall a woman , going through a difficult time with her husband , returning after a few days ' holiday to find that he had swept and cleaned the house from top to bottom . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've never done this before have we , love , ’ Dan said , remembering after a few yards to change onto the correct side of the road . |
| 3 | If anything Peter is more conscious of looking after the other guys . |
| 4 | Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children . |
| 5 | Penny always gets landed with looking after the new kids in the class . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She ran her house as previously , looking after the five children and her husband . |
| 8 | looking after the littlest ones all day and and she 's obviously been speaking to them like that during |
| 9 | Were you involved at all in er looking after the younger children ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Women were especially involved in looking after the sick animals where their patience and ‘ mothering instinct ’ were valuable . |
| 14 | It was nearly dark when we left Fontanellato and , with no lights about , it was hard to know where we were going after a few kilometres . |
| 15 | As Lord Scarman , reporting after the 1981 riots , had pointed out , the underlying crisis was social and economic . |
| 16 | They go crawling after the great ones among us when they 're dead . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A series of falls hidden from immediate view follows the gill on the left-hand side and one May morning as I walked up the gill the falls were roaring after the heavy rains of the week before . |
| 19 | Our repayment was to leave these happy rural innocents hankering after the tacky charms of Gameboy ( the mobile computer game ) . |
| 20 | Some stopped dividing after a few hours and remained generalised in form and in dense clusters . |
| 21 | Mr Engholm had thought of resigning after the Social Democrats ' battering at local elections in Hesse last March . |
| 22 | I used Vichy 's Hip and Thigh Massage Cream and I could actually feel the nodules of fat cells disintegrating after a few weeks of applying the cream daily , and the improvement became more and more obvious as I continued . |
| 23 | The first photoelectrochemical cells also had low efficiencies and stopped working after a few hours — this time due to light-induced erosion of the semiconducting electrode . |