Example sentences of "and looking after [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 She was paying little attention to her normal ‘ household duties ’ such as child care , shopping , and looking after the house .
3 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 . ’
4 It is all too easy to sacrifice every waking moment to the duties of running the house and looking after the physical needs of the patient and other members of the family .
5 I think some people do think that is selfish and that marriage is about bringing up a family and looking after the house . ’
6 Kalchu 's younger brother had come over from his neighbouring hut and the two men sat spinning , talking and looking after the small children until their wives returned .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
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 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 .
12 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 ’ .
13 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 .
14 They take care of the transport and looking after the invalids .
15 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 .
16 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 .
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