Example sentences of "looking after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Help may also be available for those who care for others , for example if you are looking after a disabled person or an elderly relation . |
| 2 | It could aim to copy the Pentagon 's example , devoting a portion of the MOD 's budget to looking after a mothballed version of any production line judged a strategic asset . |
| 3 | Looking after a household involved strenuous activity . |
| 4 | Modern houses have so many labour-saving devices that it is difficult for the person at home to have adequate exercise by doing chores , cooking , and looking after a family . |
| 5 | Ivan H. May of Hampstead Garden Suburb writes : ‘ As a 70-year-old full-time carer looking after a wife suffering from dementia , I do everything in the house : shopping , cooking , washing-up , cleaning , washing , ironing , bed-making , mending and paying the bills , not to mention doing the garden and most of the decorating . |
| 6 | Mrs Hiscocks , a divorcee , had been looking after a 650-acre wildlife sanctuary at Abuko for Mr Brewer , while he was in the UK for medical treatment . |
| 7 | This is why the responsibility of ( say ) looking after a small brother or sister is so valuable in enhancing the social awareness and maturity of the older boy or girl who is doing the substitute parenting . |
| 8 | John is looking after a sizeable vegetable garden single handed and has plans to extend considerably on to other land owned by the family . |
| 9 | If you are looking after a sick person , you may have to give bedpans or urinals at regular intervals and also remove and empty them . |
| 10 | Looking after a frail and elderly person is very much a management task . |
| 11 | The pleasures and rewards of looking after a loved one can be immense . |
| 12 | Someone looking after a partner or relative with Alzheimer 's disease — or senile dementia as it is also known — has particular problems . |
| 13 | Help may also be available for those who care for others , for example if you are looking after a disabled person or an elderly relation . |
| 14 | I 'm building up my own business as well as looking after a husband and three children . |
| 15 | On the one hand , I want fatherhood to make me a better person because I believe that , once I have the responsibility of looking after a child , giving up smoking and drinking and spending money on the motorbike will be a doddle . |
| 16 | Looking after a fire does require a modicum of attention and responsibility . |
| 17 | They seem to love looking after a child , or , at least , take it in their stride . ’ |
| 18 | Later on , we were on another job , looking after a defence minister from somewhere or other . |
| 19 | Looking after a young woman with a sprained ankle , no job and no family was one thing . |
| 20 | Even more strikingly , some working mothers regard a period at work , particularly if it is part-time , as a welcome respite from the great variety of stresses arising in looking after a home and children . |
| 21 | The only common circumstances in which men provide substantial care is when they are looking after a disabled wife , whereas women care for husbands , parents , handicapped children and sometimes other relatives too ( Charlesworth , Wilkin and Durie , 1984 ; Parker , 1985 ; Henwood and Wicks , 1985 ; Finch 1986b ) . |
| 22 | Grossing these responses up suggests that at least six million adults in Britain are carers and the majority , 75 per cent , are looking after a person aged 65 and over , 1.4 million adults provide care for more than 20 hours per week and 3.7 million have sole responsibility for the care of their dependant . |
| 23 | I know how much hard work goes into looking after a baby and I just ca n't wait . |
| 24 | Carers are likely to be looking after a dying loved one for the first time in their life ; their anxieties may be greater than the patient 's . |
| 25 | This holster will allow it to be carried by a few of those who presently have no means of looking after a throwline . |
| 26 | I question my medical knowledge for looking after a child that fits . |
| 27 | It 's a full time job , looking after a walled garden , three plots of vegetables and cut flowers , lawns , a rock garden and three greenhouses where he rears thousands of plants . |
| 28 | In a monogamous marriage there are many more claims on time and labour because there is only one woman to do all the work ; looking after a husband and children , tending crops , collecting water , firewood and preparing food . |
| 29 | You know you 've got a million people and you 're just looking after a thousand , maybe more . |
| 30 | 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 ? |