Example sentences of "and [v-ing] after [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a time teaching in a Scottish school , Fettes , the degree got him a fellowship in mathematics at his own college of Magdalene ; where he remained the rest of his long life — teaching mathematics , holding various college offices , going every week to Emmanuel Congregational chapel , and becoming after a time one of its deacons or church officers . |
| 2 | Modern houses have so many labour-saving devices that it is difficult for the person at home to have adequate exercise by doing chores , cooking , and looking after a family . |
| 3 | one chap feeding the mill and one the other chap then giving him the and the other chap was working below taking away the straw and looking after the grain . |
| 4 | For a long while , I could see her in the rear-view mirror , standing in the dusty road in her long white dress , holding her child and looking after the Felder . |
| 5 | Following his survey of relatively low-income home owners , he argues that the domestic division of labour within homes is indeed ‘ strongly patterned by gender , with child care ( where relevant ) , laundry and house cleaning being strongly associated with women while gardening and looking after the car tend to be predominantly male activities ’ . |
| 6 | So you would feel probably the best mechanism would be the appointment of somebody who is given that responsibility and solely that responsibility of reporting and looking after the interest of the deferred pensioners . |
| 7 | She was paying little attention to her normal ‘ household duties ’ such as child care , shopping , and looking after the house . |
| 8 | I think some people do think that is selfish and that marriage is about bringing up a family and looking after the house . ’ |
| 9 | Josephine Chandler was found half naked and bleeding after the attack , which left her permanently brain damaged and physically disabled . |
| 10 | Almost concurrently came the report of Geoffrey Boycott having his golf clubs lifted from a train and chasing after the thief as though in pursuit of one of his own runs . |
| 11 | The track goes on as a pleasant lane beyond Calf Holes , coming alongside a belt of trees on the left and arriving after a mile at the sixteenth-century Ling Gill Bridge , a modest structure with a tablet built into parapet giving the information that it was repaired in 1765 at the expense of the inhabitants of the West Riding . |
| 12 | Everyone coughed most of the time , they could n't tell the difference between coughing and breathing after a while , but his was a real lung curdler when it got going . |
| 13 | Glenn Hoddle says it was a big win and rewarding after a week in which they 've had to sell a player and have been troubled by lots of injuries … |
| 14 | THERE was confusion yesterday about the affect on government spending and borrowing after the Treasury climbdown over the way subsidies from the European Commission are treated . |
| 15 | Key central and local government figures from the time , including The Rt Hon J Dickson Mabon , the Minister with responsibility for planning and housing during the mid '60s , recalled the urgent pressures for re-housing and re-planning after the war . |