Example sentences of "[to-vb] [coord] look after " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people like to try and look after their horses themselves , often with some help from the livery yard owner or a friend who has different commitments . |
| 2 | I stopped to try and look after him . |
| 3 | Dasha actually wants to come and look after Stavrogin , as actually as Svidrigailov is bored — ‘ especially now ’ , he says , as America looms . |
| 4 | Lola kept track of patients whose personalities were as variable as the weather ( ‘ One minute Paul says he does not want his wife any more and the next he has changed his mind ’ ) , she listened to their grievances ( ‘ Josef thinks he is fit to work and look after himself ; says he is being kept a prisoner … but he is very confused and deluded ’ ) and even mediated between doctors ( ‘ Dr Freymann said … it must be a genuine case of epilepsy … but … |
| 5 | ‘ Lots of mothers these days manage to work and look after their children perfectly well . |
| 6 | When the young mallee fowl emerges , there are no parents around to feed or look after it . |
| 7 | We show you how to create and look after your own water garden |
| 8 | In one study a random group of residents in a home for the elderly and infirm were given a house plant to own and look after . |
| 9 | Since we needed someone to skin and look after the specimens we collected , we eventually employed a lanky youth called Yusuf German who had worked for a Greek taxidermist in the town . |
| 10 | " She 's just told me her sister has been taken ill and she has to go and look after her . |
| 11 | ‘ And Liz wants me to go and look after her . |
| 12 | The Horse Rangers Association was founded in 1954 by Raymond Gordon FRSA to teach young people from the age of seven and upwards how to ride and look after horses and ponies . |
| 13 | The resident male who was displaced then comes back and looks after all the eggs , including those of the pirate and the reason he does it presumably in the first place he ca n't distinguish which eggs he 's fertilized and those fertilized by the pirate and secondly , he knows he 's fertilized some of the eggs and therefore it pays him to stay and look after all of them . |
| 14 | But many commentators saw only a decline in the desire to rear or look after children , a weakening of the cohesive effects of the family , and an associated diminution of the buoyancy of the stock in terms familiar at least since the Boer War . |