Example sentences of "[prep] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking after other people 's children can be very rewarding indeed , but it is also hard work and a big responsibility and is not quite the same as bringing up your own children . |
| 2 | It was no more and no less than this : he had deserted the only proper employment of the human mind , theology , to go a-whoring after other studies and other learning . |
| 3 | The shrunken personal emptiness in an arid landscape , the hungering after other men 's experience , and the combined fear and fascination which Gerontion feels for threatening rebirth seem to grow , partly at least , from Eliot 's own situation . |
| 4 | Herdwicks start lambing a year after other breeds because they need to grow enough to stand the harsh climate . |
| 5 | The dead King had been a lecher who lusted after other men 's wives , daughters , sisters , like a dog on heat . |
| 6 | If everyone could look after their own , there would be far fewer people like social workers running around looking after other people 's own . |
| 7 | He went ‘ back to the land ’ , starting in a small way by looking after other people 's gardens and taking a couple of allotments . |
| 8 | Lyn says , ‘ He went off sex and I used to carry on and on about whether he was after other women . |
| 9 | Penny has long resisted pressures to reveal details of her special relationship with the Princess of Wales but decided to do so after other sources inaccurately reported on it . |
| 10 | Yesterday they were spewed out in the aftermath of the Musgrave Park Hospital outrage but they were the same words which Mr Brooke and his predecessors have used time and time again after other bloody acts of terrorism . |
| 11 | Women smokers have a higher incidence of miscarriage and premature labour ; their infants have higher perinatal mortality , slower physical and mental development and twice the risk of cot death after other factors ( such as social class ) have been accounted for . |
| 12 | They know that some things happen after other things . |
| 13 | GRAEME SOUNESS ( Spurs , Middlesbrough , Liverpool , Sampdoria , Rangers and Scotland — 1970-91 ) : ‘ I 've got a lot of admiration for him because he was a very passionate player and he looked after other players as well . |
| 14 | Perhaps , after other moves by the teacher , such as crumbling the chalk , being countered in a similar way , the determined teacher might resort to chemical analysis . |
| 15 | Finch , in a study of preschool playgroups , found that for working class women self help was illusory , because taking turns in looking after other people 's children did not fit in with their life styles or with their aspirations . |
| 16 | She could not imagine him chasing after other women once he had committed himself , could not imagine him being so insensitive as to leave a woman — his woman — wondering why he was so late arriving home , or whether he was coming home at all . |
| 17 | This relationship persisted after other factors ( residence , maternal education , marital status and father 's occupation ) were taken into account . |
| 18 | Crilly stiffens again by my side , asking after other women who have been in the crash ; he knows them all . |
| 19 | I do n't think that he could look after other countries , although the same sort of precedent could no doubt apply for example , the former French prime minister , there 's probably quite a few of them around , could be found to go |
| 20 | Looking after other people . |
| 21 | Jonathon Pendrous ; by day a cleaner clearing up the stage after other peoples ' glory , but by night when the actors have gone home , and the audience has left the theatre to its ghostly past … |
| 22 | When you 've spent a lifetime looking after OTHER people , it 's nice to be pampered for a change . |
| 23 | Mm I du n no what we get asked to do you know , I mean in some cases we can handle everything like pulling out bloody cables after other receive in that kind of thing |
| 24 | There is an elective affinity between this cultural vision and the religious vision of the Roman catholic church prior to the second Vatican Council , in its exclusivist attitude towards other Christian churches , an attitude which is far from overcome at the level of popular Roman catholicism . |
| 25 | But the study must also decide on NATO 's attitude towards other sorts of troubles , known collectively ( if a trifle inaccurately ) as ‘ out-of-area ’ conflicts . |
| 26 | Our other dogs have never shown aggression towards other dogs . |
| 27 | Geldings can often be very unpredictable in their behaviour towards other horses , and can sometimes be a problem paddocked with mares . |
| 28 | In a few cases people are the target , usually the result of the horses not having being handled properly ; but mostly the aggression in horses is directed towards other horses . |
| 29 | Pressure is growing from several camps to adopt a more strident tone towards other republics , to give up attempts to bolster the Commonwealth of Independent States and allow Russia to go it alone , especially on military matters . |
| 30 | IC received a report of its cosponsored conference held in Sri Lanka in May , and noted developments towards other meetings to be held in Egypt , India and Botswana over the next 12 months . |