Example sentences of "[prep] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nathan is a swinger , who is blamed for whoring after and mistreating gentile women . |
| 2 | He 's being well looked after and everything 's going smoothly , ’ Dave added . |
| 3 | Lying in bed and being looked after and enveloped in love , by day and by night . |
| 4 | The LR 2.25 diesel is a very reliable unit if looked after and not abused and will last many miles . |
| 5 | The first need is to try and ensure that the churchyard is looked after and kept tidy . |
| 6 | Knowing who we are as humans has been one of the great vexed questions , searched after and written about down the centuries . |
| 7 | He was fast becoming the most sought after and most beloved interviewee in Britain . |
| 8 | Has it been looked after and well maintained ? |
| 9 | I had about five barges to look after and you could n't see everyone — not that I cared so very much , to tell the truth . |
| 10 | Mr Gairns noted that proprieties were properly observed : ‘ a separate entrance to this department direct from the Stratford Road enables the girls to enter after and leave before the male employees . |
| 11 | Your personality , your way of doing things , your way of helping someone to dress , how you listen to them — all these can make it a Home where the residents feel secure , looked after and treated with dignity , as explained below : |
| 12 | Graduates are widely sought after and experience little difficulty in securing employment with excellent career prospects . |
| 13 | The pieces that remain are sought after and valuable , and even chairs that were originally very cheap are in demand . |
| 14 | For only in the formal processes of the courts was there any common alternative to the use of force ; and in most European countries throughout the period of this book kings and their officers had the greatest difficulty in preventing might from proving stronger than right : disorder was endemic , justice weak — but none the less sought after and admired for being in short supply . |
| 15 | They let me look after and feed two piglets when I was a little girl and they were really friendly and affectionate . |
| 16 | The practical corollary of this , tirelessly expounded in the Round Table in the post-war years , was that the safest place for brown races , for now and the foreseeable future , was within the British empire , where their interests could be looked after and their development , at an appropriately gradual pace , ensured . |
| 17 | Paintings and old prints of Madeira are always sought after and sometimes change hands for high prices . |
| 18 | All I could do was to mumble that I regretted not taking my degree , and , though I could see it was irritating of me to whine , to feel stale and bored was not such a trivial thing ; that though we might have the vote now , meals still had to be prepared and children looked after and since this kind of drudgery was despised by society as not being ‘ real work ’ , we were in the hideous position of being both exhausted and imprisoned by it and also looked down on for doing it ; that I had honestly tried to be the sort of wife Richard wanted — and the sort of wife I felt I ought to be — but it was like being in a kind of airless cell and I could only see Richard as a jailer ; that I saw myself becoming progressively more and more incapable of doing anything , not just mentally , but from some kind of paralysis of will . |
| 19 | The most sought after and competitive of the smaller Swans . |
| 20 | She was thought to have remained at Wroughton until delivered to Scampton late in 1958 or early 1959 , where she had commenced operations seventeen years earlier , to be looked after and displayed by the Station . |
| 21 | ‘ She was obviously being well looked after and was really cheerful and smiling . |
| 22 | In the 1990's , we may well be heading towards the classless society so sought after and well documented of politicians , yet the Royal Berkshire Club , built within the existing framework of a society which demands ever higher standards in its leisure facilities , remains a class act in its own right . |
| 23 | Mayor Kropacek said : ‘ We must thank the Thun-Hohenstein family for having looked after and honoured the picture of the Annunciation for nearly half a century and for having now returned it , newly restored , to the church of the Holy Cross . |
| 24 | The navy was the guarantee that Great Britain 's interests elsewhere could be looked after and gave her enormous strategical advantages outside Europe . |
| 25 | They were well looked after and were given plenty of beer , cigarettes and extras at Christmas time . |
| 26 | Right , now erm , the next item is the prisoner , but we actually do n't have a prisoner at the moment do we , because our , we have , we eat , every Amn each Amnesty Group has er usually nowadays one er given to look after and our most recent prisoner was er Sabri Lushe , is that the right one ? |
| 27 | Despite his many sales of things from Douglas Cooper 's collection , a substantial amount of art remained , much of it in Switzerland , where it was looked after and catalogued by Billy 's curator , Dorothy Kozinski . |
| 28 | Long before the rest of us , Ralph had recognised the quality of those intimate plein air sketches of Welsh valleys and sunlit Neapolitan walls , today so sought after and so expensive . |
| 29 | Differences can account for prices varying between one and four : Flemish-Dutch pastels are about three times cheaper than watercolours ; French pastels are four times cheaper than oils ; the differences are less important for the Italian School , since Italian drawings in general are more sought after and collected than others . |
| 30 | New tenants , particularly from non-conforming households such as single parents , tend to be given the poorer standard housing and are expected to prove their ability to look after and improve their home before being transferred to a better property . |