Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [v-ing] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 're the earner , and she 's looking after the children , it 's usually down to you to make regular payments for the children 's upkeep at least until they reach the age of seventeen — and longer if they 're still in education . |
| 2 | Critical illness , you 've got carry on paying the premiums , with no lump sum paid on living assur , er , on life assurance , the living expenses are likely to increase , because you may have er , somebody who 's disabled , paralysed or whatever , there 's no chance of the widow returning to work because she 's looking after person who 's er , ill , and obviously she ca n't remarry because she 's not widowed at this point . |
| 3 | And then you drop it in on Iris when she 's looking after |
| 4 | To the question could we see her Daddy , she replied ‘ I am afraid Daddy is not home yet , Mummy is here , but I think you should see Nanny , she is looking after us . |
| 5 | It 's flattering after 15 years of marriage , to know that he 's in a lather of anticipation about undressing his wife . |
| 6 | It will first work with the customer to identify business problems to be solved , and after the design has been determined , NCR will build the prototype around an NCR 3450 or NCR 3550 symmetric multiprocessing server — it 's going after people downsizing from mainframes here . |
| 7 | It will first work with the customer to identify business problems to be solved , and after the design has been determined , NCR will build the prototype around an NCR 3450 or NCR 3550 symmetric multiprocessing server — it 's going after people downsizing from mainframes here . |
| 8 | Elsewhere in the capital , the Royal Lyceum claims it is recovering after last year 's £1.2 million debt crisis and ticket sales which were 10 to 15 per cent below target . |
| 9 | BOLA keeps insisting that it is looking after the interest of all punters by examining the details of this affair and issuing the ‘ No pay ’ edict . |
| 10 | Sections 22 – 25 and Sched 2 , Part II set out in detail the duties and powers a local authority has in relation to children it is looking after . |
| 11 | It acts as if it is looking after all our interests in ways too subtle and refined for us to understand . |
| 12 | It is going after manufacturing , retail , teleservices , decision support , information publishing and branch automation as well as its old standby , engineering , scientific and electronic design automation . |
| 13 | The new section from Market Bosworth to Shenton will take the length of the operating section to four and a quarter miles and it is opening after ten years of fund-raising . |
| 14 | ‘ He stays in the Rorim , or at Carnach Rorim , where he is going after Ringill . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's asked me to dine at the villa he 's looking after for a few months , just to oblige a couple of ex-pats . |
| 16 | He 's looking after the UK end and there are worse people to be in partnership with . ’ |
| 17 | He wants to talk about getting some of his poets to work on the Alps — he 's looking after one or two o the Romantics for a few months , while a colleague of his is sitting on a commission of inquiry . |
| 18 | and , looks so ill , it 's not very good for the people he 's looking after is it ? |
| 19 | He 's looking after the schemes for the leisure office . |
| 20 | Level Two shoves Sly onto a motorbike , he 's chasing after one of the CWD bosses travelling in a black Cadillac . |
| 21 | He 's moving after being burgled three times in one week . |
| 22 | Once a guy came running after me , he must have run fifty yards up the road , but I had to ignore it , because I ca n't be big-headed enough to turn round and go , ‘ Oh , he 's running after me . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He 's going after her , ’ she said to Charley . |
| 24 | Them 's comin' after us , that 's wot ! ’ cried Barnabas , pointing to a small boat approaching rapidly from the shore . |