Example sentences of "[noun sg] to look [prep] the child " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professional families , where the mother stays at home to look after the children , would be severely hit . |
| 2 | The thing is though they , they look at it , they always look at it that erm , they earn the money so they can go out and get it , you know , women are n't entitled to anything , they 're just at home to look after the children |
| 3 | Most countries within the EC , including Germany , Portugal , Belgium , Denmark and Italy , have introduced the concept of parental leave — a period of leave given to either parent to look after the child up to the age of two — in addition to maternity leave . |
| 4 | The husband to have time off work to look after the children , |
| 5 | this case also dealt with the fact that the deceased mother had worked full time and this aunt had given up her job to look after the children . |
| 6 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 7 | When the parents of an illegitimate child separated , the father paid a neighbour £1 per week to look after the child . |
| 8 | Renshaw has returned to work after the birth of her first child and employed a nanny to look after the child . |
| 9 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 10 | I leaned over the bed to look at the child . |
| 11 | There is no contentious issue between the parties as to the suitability of the mother to look after the children or as to the suitability of the father to have contact with them . |