Example sentences of "and look [prep] the children " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said , ‘ Every year I end up taking a pair of rubber gloves with me and looking after the children , and every year I end up coming home feeling exhausted . |
| 2 | But that staying at home and looking after the children , or whatever and bringing up a family is just as valuable as a job , or a career . |
| 3 | My boyfriend said he would stay at home and be the househusband and look after the children and do co co , the cleaning and cooking if I stayed at work . |
| 4 | You finish your work and you want to relax , but you ca n't , because you have to queue for tomatoes or meat and you ca n't find it in this shop , or that , and you have to walk around and spend hours on shopping , then cook and clean and wash clothes and look after the children . |
| 5 | He wanted her to stay at home and look after the children as much as she did ; he wanted her to be mainly interested in them . |
| 6 | ‘ I got a lot of response from the article and my request for someone to move into my home and look after the children while I was away for the eight months in Bristol , ’ she said . |
| 7 | The wife 's common work is to bake bread for the family , to wash and mend ragged clothes , and to look after the children ; but at beansetting , haymaking , and harvest she earns as comes one week with another about 6d . |
| 8 | The house was decorated almost entirely in weedy shades of green and looked to the children like a fish tank that needed cleaning out . |
| 9 | And this excitement , and the feeling of being involved in a half-guessed-at mystery , became her private obsession as she went about the house , visited the shops and looked after the children . |
| 10 | She accompanied Clare herself to the Refuge and looked after the children while the women had a meeting with some councillors . |