Example sentences of "look [prep] [pron] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have looked after his books for forty years and that 's all I know , so he gave me the capital to start and here I am . ’ |
| 2 | Look at them all looking through their books for goodness sake . |
| 3 | In looking through my cases for examples of problems that I 've experienced with 50 millesimals I am conscious that aggravations are not one ! |
| 4 | ‘ I was looking after her chickens for her until she came home , ’ Liam had cried in the chapel . |
| 5 | What is the point of only taking what you need and looking after your resources for the future , if they are simply going to be swiped by somebody else ? |
| 6 | Nails stood looking at his feet for some time , as there was not much else to do . |
| 7 | He went on looking at his hands for a moment . |
| 8 | I 'll look through its columns for oddities — curious unexplained happenings and so on … there 's an outside chance something might turn up . |
| 9 | They would be free from slavery , from work they were unsuited to do , but they lost a way of life , they had to look after their children for longer , they had to find other work to keep the family fed , clothed , rent paid etc . |
| 10 | ‘ But if you wish to retire ca n't you find some other member of your family to look after your nieces for you ? ’ |
| 11 | Not the ideal circumstances in which to hire someone who is to look after your children for a couple of years or more … ’ |
| 12 | I looked after Papa all that time you went off with Arkwright , and I 've tried to look after your children for you now . |
| 13 | It 's one thing to leave your children with a couple you know and trust , but quite another to have a man you only know through a babysitting circle look after your children for an evening . |
| 14 | Now seeking means to combat the Chemicals Age , we look to our forbears for help . |
| 15 | Clients will often look to their accountants for impartial guidance on a wide range of investment issues , yet too few practitioners meet this need with a pro-active approach to enhancing their clients ' overall financial wellbeing , whether directly or via an associate . |
| 16 | Single-parent families headed by widows were fairly common , for example , in Anderson 's study of mid-nineteenth-century Preston , and this was a circumstance in which people might well look to their relatives for support ( Anderson , 1971 , pp. 144–7 ) . |
| 17 | The re-occurring themes were , unconditional love and being able to look beyond our mothers for advice . |
| 18 | We therefore ask you to look to your classes for possible talent . |
| 19 | What we are trying to say is that we do n't have to look to our mothers for everything . |
| 20 | If you smoke , give it up ; vow to think first before buying anything expensive ; and look at your finances for the future — will you be secure when you 're older ? |
| 21 | The foregoing chapters will , it is hoped , form a sufficient background and we may now begin to look at their implications for the social worker and for the social work profession . |
| 22 | I said hello to everybody and looked into their eyes for hints of recognition — that these famous musical arbiters and copy- fuhrers might remember my earlier attempts to bum a job on the journo rollercoaster . |