Example sentences of "[coord] looking after the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 1 ) attitudes towards the nature of representation , ( 2 ) behaviour within council groups , ( 3 ) preference for governing the city as a whole or looking after the interests of a ward , ( 1 ) preference for dealing with general policy issues or with individual problems , ( 5 ) preference for specialisms in one aspect of council work or generalizing over them all , and ( 6 ) attitudes towards the involvement of community organisations in the government of the city ( Newton 1976a:114 ) . |
| 2 | I had met him every day of my life in England : punching my ticket on a ‘ bus , cutting my hair , selling me an evening newspaper or looking after the engine of my aeroplane . |
| 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 | They take care of the transport and looking after the invalids . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The store manager saw his role as increasing productivity , whereas the personnel manager saw her role as organising and motivating staff towards the organisation 's objectives and looking after the staff 's well-being . |
| 9 | She said , ‘ Every year I end up taking a pair of rubber gloves with me and looking after the children , and every year I end up coming home feeling exhausted . |
| 10 | But that staying at home and looking after the children , or whatever and bringing up a family is just as valuable as a job , or a career . |
| 11 | If you 're the one who 's stayed at home all day , tackling the house and looking after the kids , you 'll want to celebrate the homecoming of everyone else and the chance the talk over the day 's happenings . |
| 12 | Women are doing what they can in the controlled zones — this means anything from making tortillas and looking after the kids to political and military work . |
| 13 | He had been moved to lighter work three years earlier : ‘ my Master took me from the farm work to do the House Boys work — cleaning the Boots seeing to the wood and coals and sweeping up the back yard and the paths and looking after the poultry . ’ |
| 14 | She was paying little attention to her normal ‘ household duties ’ such as child care , shopping , and looking after the house . |
| 15 | I think some people do think that is selfish and that marriage is about bringing up a family and looking after the house . ’ |
| 16 | But looking after the stock does n't only mean handling it carefully ; it also means planning stock levels , ordering goods and storing them . |