Example sentences of "looking after the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking after the tender abutilon |
| 2 | If the person claiming is not looking after the estate , the Social Fund Officer will write to the person who is , at the same time as a payment is made . |
| 3 | At the British Army Training Unit Suffield ( BATUS ) , not far from Calgary in western Canada , a detachment of twenty-five men from 6 Armoured Workshop 's Forward Repair Group ( FRG ) is being kept busy looking after the 17/ 2lst Lancers battlegroup engaged in Exercise Gazala , the climax of their live firing exercises . |
| 4 | It does not move them that the cost of looking after the hundreds of thousands of Thais who are likely to be infected by 1995 will far exceed that of a few cancelled holidays . |
| 5 | Like their fairy-tale sister , they do all the boring but crucial jobs — looking after the keyboard and screen , filing and retrieving data — but get few thanks for it . |
| 6 | He said yesterday that as Mr Dignum spent most of his time looking after the stores , which include the troubled Silo chain in America , the move ‘ reflects the reality of the situation which has existed for some time ’ . |
| 7 | The Arts : Looking after the dollars — and cents |
| 8 | Women were especially involved in looking after the sick animals where their patience and ‘ mothering instinct ’ were valuable . |
| 9 | She was paying little attention to her normal ‘ household duties ’ such as child care , shopping , and looking after the house . |
| 10 | Suttons of Reading brought 138 greenkeepers to Henley to play after a conference — perhaps their year of looking after the course was done with this in mind . |
| 11 | They had warned her at the start there would be complicated things going on , and not to try to understand them , that her job was looking after the baby . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | However , he is likely to feel much more satisfied if he can take an active part in looking after the plants . |
| 14 | If you feel you can not do this , or if your relationship before the stroke or head injury was hostile anyway , you should discuss this problem with the doctor before undertaking the responsibility of looking after the patient . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A longer holiday period away from each other is also valuable if you are looking after the patient full-time . |
| 17 | She ran her house as previously , looking after the five children and her husband . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought you liked looking after the shops . ’ |
| 19 | On the whole , Agnes enjoyed looking after the little house . |
| 20 | I had met him every day of my life in England : punching my ticket on a ‘ bus , cutting my hair , selling me an evening newspaper or looking after the engine of my aeroplane . |
| 21 | Nearly a third of the principal carers complained at the first interview about the adverse effects of looking after the dementia sufferer upon their own physical or mental health . |
| 22 | Those who had initially wanted to go on looking after the dementia sufferer at home ( nine carers ) were also mainly content with the institutional care arrangement . |
| 23 | This is perhaps not surprising : their preference for home care at the first interview indicates that they have a stronger commitment to looking after the dementia sufferer than those who said in the first interview that they would prefer institutional care . |
| 24 | Most carers were aged 45–64 ; and six out of ten were committed to looking after the dependant for at least 50 hours a week . |
| 25 | ‘ My man said he would n't mind looking after the kids . ’ |
| 26 | LOOKING AFTER THE CUSTOMER |
| 27 | Looking after the customer is , therefore , very important ; a lot depends on building and maintaining a good relationship with your customers . |
| 28 | LOOKING AFTER THE STOCK |
| 29 | But looking after the stock does n't only mean handling it carefully ; it also means planning stock levels , ordering goods and storing them . |
| 30 | But the executive is responsible for looking after the safety of 6 million more workers . |