Example sentences of "looking after the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I think some people do think that is selfish and that marriage is about bringing up a family and looking after the house . ’ |
| 32 | Brian Cervi leads the first XI , with Lloyd Edwards and Bernie Tutte looking after the second team . |
| 33 | Chairman of the World Championships is Albert Woods with former slalom treasurer John Liddell again looking after the finances . |
| 34 | If it was stormy people were too busy looking after the farm and the animals to bother much , but when it was clear we had a nice meal . |
| 35 | Her parents both went out to work , and from a young age Jean had been given the responsibility of looking after the other children . |
| 36 | Despite receiving a lot of help she gave up looking after the child , asking her mother-in-law to do so with increasing frequency . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | We had no weather data for Viseu — it seemed that their phone number had changed , as the person looking after the field at Bragança tried to phone without success . |
| 39 | She hoped that Maggie was still looking after the jeweller whose name Sarah had a struggle to remember . |
| 40 | They 're the ones supposed to be looking after the kids in the day-time , they should bloody well make sure there are n't any funny characters hanging around outside |
| 41 | Have you proper guards now looking after the horses ? ’ |
| 42 | We enjoyed looking after the children very much . |
| 43 | The kind milkman is now looking after the stray dog , which must have consumed more than 100 pints of milk , until a home can be found for him . |
| 44 | ‘ I can explain what resources I 've got and what I can do with those resources — which includes looking after the bands I already have on board . ’ |
| 45 | Apart from looking after the home and having babies , she is still expected to do most of the manual work on the land as her husband may be working abroad or in Funchal or just resting . |
| 46 | With the main objective of looking after the interests of those professional pilots who work within the air taxi and commuter airline business , this British organisation , IPA , has recently been formed . |
| 47 | If anything Peter is more conscious of looking after the other guys . |
| 48 | THOSE who are charged with looking after the royal stables are given the title of equerry , but this has nothing to do with equus , the Latin word for a horse . |
| 49 | Nonetheless , after he became Premier , Major promoted the 51-year-old Welshman to Foreign Office Minister with the key job of looking after the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 50 | All but the simplest PC LANs are likely to have a central computer acting as a file or database server , dedicated to looking after the data on behalf of all the desktop machines . |
| 51 | Now in one of the most prestigious and historic posts in the country , he includes looking after the Old Bailey among his new responsibilities . |
| 52 | He did n't know what Lewis meant about someone looking after the house but no doubt he , Adam , had at the time concocted some tale to keep his father quiet , to keep him away even . |
| 53 | Someone had been looking after the garden , you could see that . |
| 54 | Refreshed , we drove on to Shwebo and had breakfast with a small group of SPG missionaries who had camped out there , looking after the stream of refugees hoping to be flown to India . |
| 55 | Managers are required to put down a small security deposit , but all equipment is provided by the company , which also pays staff wages and overhead expenses , together with a small additional honorarium ( currently 5 per cent of husband 's salary ) to the manager 's wife for looking after the domestic accommodation . |
| 56 | We have pretty much shared responsibility in looking after the house — though they 'd probably argue that I do naff all ! |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | In turn this has resulted in the need to develop explanations to justify why younger people have ceased looking after the needs of their elderly relatives . |
| 60 | ‘ She wanted to be doing things like playing on her home computer rather than looking after the rest of the family . |