Example sentences of "to look after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to be more grown up if I 'm going to look after a pet . |
| 2 | He does n't have to look after a family . |
| 3 | He does n't have to look after a family . |
| 4 | It costs about £100 a week to keep a mentally handicapped adult in care and over £200 a week to look after a mentally handicapped child . |
| 5 | Félicie waited with him for news of the birth , and during the anxious time Modi asked her for advice , knowing that Jeanne was too preoccupied in looking after him and coping with her mother 's often unhelpful interference to look after a new baby alone . |
| 6 | There are times when making a certain promise ( say to look after a friend 's child if the friend dies before the child comes of age ) are morally worthwhile but where one does not have an obligation to make them ( remember that in this example too one may find other adequate ways to help one 's friend ) . |
| 7 | For someone receiving child benefit , or supplementary benefit ( income support from April 1988 ) to look after a sick or disabled person , home responsibilities protection is automatic . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The registrar will have a staff of about 20 , but will have to look after a register of perhaps hundreds of thousands of computers . |
| 10 | My name is Lucy and I want to tell you what happened when we were asked to look after a horse . |
| 11 | Mary , 45 , was left like Brenda to look after a set of six-year-old twins on her own after splitting with her husband . |
| 12 | The Titfords ' immediate neighbours boasted domestic servants : two of them to look after a boot manufacturer and his wife at no. 15 , and just the one to attend to the needs of a photographer and his stepdaughter who were living on the other side . |
| 13 | I have ignored such central and prestigious characters in the drama is professor Wold of St Bartholomew 's Hospital , who is seeking to perfect a cheap , early diagnostic test for trisomy 21 during pregnancy on the interesting grounds that it costs £500,000 ( not accounting for inflation ) to look after a person with trisomy 21 for life . |
| 14 | A survey of more than 1,000 employees found that 84 per cent do not think the need to look after a loved one will ever affect them . |
| 15 | ‘ Many are newly retired professional women , or women taking a career break to look after a family . |
| 16 | Have you time to look after a pony , to visit twice a day , summer and winter ? |
| 17 | If Maisie had taught Beth anything at all , she had taught her how to look after a growing family . |
| 18 | If the carer moves in to look after a couple ( eg elderly parents ) on the death of one spouse the tenancy goes to the surviving spouse . |
| 19 | Cathy registered as a childminder when she started to look after a friend 's young son . |
| 20 | I like it better when I 'm sent to look after a baby or play with a kid like Mike . |
| 21 | Do n't ask a babysitter to look after a sick child . |
| 22 | Donald Clark , a driver with British Airways in London , had planned to move to Scotland with his wife , Margaret , to look after a sick relative . |
| 23 | Instead of having three to look after I 'd probably end up having to look after a seven or eight . |
| 24 | But I mean er , a man in his state of health never ought to be left to look after a woman like that , but different if it 's an ablebodied |
| 25 | How much do you have to look after a pond , I mean |
| 26 | erm it may very well be that certain family situations , such as the example I gave you example earlier — somebody may have given up work to look after a dependent . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not here to look after every child in the school ! |
| 28 | The police are always careful to look after every dog they accept . |
| 29 | You may be an older person living on your own or in someone else 's home , or a relative or friend helping to look after an elderly person . |
| 30 | I might dread the thought of having to look after an Alzheimer patient . |