Example sentences of "look [prep] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those are only the qualities he looks for in the people who work for him , though . |
| 2 | Nothing fancy is looked for in the way of bait and tackle : it 's the basic hook , line and worm . |
| 3 | Finally , it seems also to be a taken-for-granted principle that in human affairs where there is order there is something corresponding to a rule to be looked for in the background of the actions which appear as orderly . |
| 4 | Project members are normally overseen by a Steering Committee , representing relevant expertise that is not to be looked for within the institution itself . |
| 5 | The woodwork can be clearly seen and the turned balusters have been looked after over the years . |
| 6 | I think the public wants to know that all those people , and their families , who suffered in the war will be looked after for the rest of their lives . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Carol Barratt is going to be looked after for the rest of her life , and looked after well , whereas life for us is never going to be the same again . ’ |
| 8 | A WIDOW has left nearly £135,000 to an animal charity on the condition that her cats are well looked after for the rest of their lives . |
| 9 | Hayling had realized that although women 's interests were being looked after on the paper , there was already suspicion of NoS in the black community . |
| 10 | There are 120 cats and dogs being looked after at the RSPCA 's animal shelter in Whitminster near Stroud . |
| 11 | Whatever plans the local authority may have the court will have in mind the underlying philosophy of the Act that " children are best looked after within the family with both parents playing a full part and without resort to legal proceedings " ( Guidance , vol 1 , para 1.5 ) . |
| 12 | That 's difficult , when you were brought up to believe you would be looked after from the cradle to the grave . |
| 13 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 14 | It is clearly undesirable and often more expensive to admit or keep in district general hospitals or long stay hospitals old or mentally ill or mentally handicapped people who could be properly looked after in the community . |
| 15 | This may be appropriate , not only because hospital beds are usually expensive but also because most people prefer to be looked after in the community . |
| 16 | For most mentally-ill people are being looked after in the community anyway , by relatives and friends who can not bring themselves to have the people they love locked away . |
| 17 | Yeah and Mike 's seen him like that and mum went round the ward and she made all the beds to help them and all , we had to bribe them to look after him , but was he looked after in the end , on Saturday I said look , I said do n't fucking come over here and tell me my dad 's gon na be turned in a minute I said because a minute is a minute , I said but when you come over here three and a half hours later to my dad that 's like three years , he 's in excruciating agony , he wants to turn him when you tell him you 're gon na turn him |
| 18 | Now Wedgwood generously agreed to waive the buy-back clause in return for a series of covenants ensuring that the house would be restored and looked after in the future . |
| 19 | Now and then , waiters would serve us refreshing drinks from the bar and while we were busy unwinding , we were happy to know that the children were being well looked after in the Children 's Club . |
| 20 | These were looked after by the Board of Works — the lineal descendant of the Office of the King 's Works , which built many of the castles and palaces which its successor bodies , including Historic Scotland , now care for . |
| 21 | In a smaller company , the pension scheme may be looked after by the company secretary or managing director . |
| 22 | The seneschal looked briefly at the quivering attendant being looked after by the others , then he shrugged and said something to the under-cook , who quickly got back down off the stool and turned to the others . |
| 23 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 24 | As soon as they 're installed in the Green Room , guests are looked after by the Floor Manager . |
| 25 | More recently , White Parks have been exported to other parts of the USA and also to Canada , Australia , Denmark and France , but they are a precious resource and carefully looked after by the breed society which was formed in 1983 . |
| 26 | The Malvern Hills have been looked after by the Conservators for around one hundred and ten years.Now they 're asking Parliament for more powers.And it 's that request which has led to controversy . |
| 27 | Ordering replenishment and display may be looked after by the publisher and this can lift a lot of the administrative burden of stock control from the shop , although they are normally offered only where sales justify it . |
| 28 | The other child is still being looked after by the parents who took her home . |
| 29 | Baby Two is still being looked after by the parents who took it home . |
| 30 | The second period covers the time from May nineteen ninety until now when the plaintiff has been solely looked after by the parents with the greatest devotion , application , selflessness and skill superimposed on their natural love and affection for the plaintiff . |