Example sentences of "look after [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sincerely believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world . |
| 2 | Chris has to pay a woman to sit with Beryl during the day and he looks after her after work , ’ Maureen said . |
| 3 | She is on excellent terms with all the regular guests , and looks after them in a way which is almost maternal . |
| 4 | She is very pleasant and helpful , and also Comrade Yu , a young teacher with plaits who looks after us in Sian and acts as interpreter . |
| 5 | After they saw the pig — a pot-bellied Vietnamese — on Central News South last night — Environmental Health officers warned the pig 's owner that she 's breaking the law by the way she looks after it at home . |
| 6 | iii Caretaker or lost child : This child takes responsibility for the family and looks after it by gently blending into the background and keeping the peace . |
| 7 | looked after me in Hyderabad , where he and his wife made me feel at home with their warm , relaxing hospitality . |
| 8 | But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long . |
| 9 | Nobody had looked after her for years , he had been quite right about that . |
| 10 | We grew up together , I 've looked after her by myself from when she was two , which was when I split up from her father . |
| 11 | Arnie had never looked after her in the way Guido meant , performing the sort of small but pleasing acts of chivalry that seemed to come so naturally to him . |
| 12 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 13 | Oh yes , he ditched Graham who 's looked after him for over ten years through thick and thin , and mainly thin , in favour of Mike Martinez . ’ |
| 14 | That bastard Harley dumped me after I 'd looked after him for nearly ten years . |
| 15 | ‘ Let's hope so , ’ she said , and told them that her parents were furious because Josh , her grandmother 's lodger , had left all his money and possessions to Kate and not even mentioned her grandmother who had looked after him for years . |
| 16 | He wanted to find Mr Brownlow , the kind old man who had looked after him in London . |
| 17 | The decision to place Gareth in the care of his grandparents , who have looked after him in the past while his mother was working , was taken by Strathclyde Regional Council 's social work department . |
| 18 | Yes , they have n't really looked after him in the field have they ? |
| 19 | A second set of trophies , the Thirsk Bowman 's Insignia , was presented in 1884 , after the death of Henry Peckett who had looked after them since the demise of that society . |
| 20 | Formerly the collection of the Greater London Council , the 5,000-piece strong holding ( give or take a few balusters ) is now the property of English Heritage , curated by Mr Treve Rosoman who has looked after it since its days with the GLC . |
| 21 | Ah yes I have looked after it for ever since it was new and er and it was the one that reopened the station after the boat 's lost here , but as I say you 've got to look forward and I think it 's a good idea to have a new boat here . |
| 22 | Theda stood looking after them for a moment , aware of her own burning curiosity . |
| 23 | We host one evening meal a week for the children , spoiling them rotten with chicken and chips and looking after them from 7.30 to 9.30 pm . |
| 24 | Afterwards , the representative from the film company said , ‘ I 've been looking after him for two weeks and that 's the first time I 've seen his teeth … . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The ambulance came , and she ended up looking after him in the intensive care unit . |
| 28 | Yeah well he 's been looking after her for , for years ai n't he ? |
| 29 | ‘ And who 's looking after her at your place ? ’ |
| 30 | The family say if her husband was still alive , he would be looking after her at home . |