Example sentences of "after [pron] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 2 | My sister looked after me for a week . |
| 3 | Theda stood looking after them for a moment , aware of her own burning curiosity . |
| 4 | mother you do not have to stay there , why , I mean he 's quite capable looking after himself for a weekend , you know my father had a series of stroke 's when he was in his fifties |
| 5 | Progress in the 19th century lay in improving refining techniques , in finding new uses ( especially in catalysis and electricity ) and discovering new sources , principally in the Urals — after which for a time the Russians adopted platinum coinage . |
| 6 | ‘ It is time that someone began to look after you for a change , Julia , ’ he said seriously . |
| 7 | Hordes of admirers screech that they would be only too willing to take Kylie home and look after her for a while . |
| 8 | Maurice stared after her for a moment . |
| 9 | Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year . |
| 10 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 11 | His cutaway heel is world-class stuff , and with a patent in the pipeline I can think of a number of major manufacturers who 'll be after him for a slice of the licensing action . |
| 12 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 13 | Dana stared after him for a moment , then turned a malevolent glare on Claudia . |
| 14 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 15 | Endill did not know what he meant by this and ran after him for an explanation . |