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Example sentences for "look after"

  • It will be Claude's business to look after that.

  • You won't have nearly so much to look after as you do here.

  • It's a good thing we're pulling out, or we'd have banns and a bunch of christenings to look after.

  • Effie was despatched in the fly with the luggage and Betty, the fat Welsh servant, to look after her.

  • As you like," said Elizabeth with a sneer, "but I should think that Beatrice is big enough and bad enough to look after herself.

  • It will be a great pleasure to me to look after her so far as I have time.

  • You want a husband to look after you, you do.

  • He cries up my Lord Ashley to be almost the only man that he sees to look after business; and with the ease and mastery, that he wonders at him.

  • We fell to talk largely of the want of some persons understanding to look after businesses, but all goes to rack.

  • He gives me no account of the reason, but that it is so: for which I am sorry; and yet if the King do it to leave off not only her but all other mistresses, I should be heartily glad of it, that he may fall to look after business.

  • In a word, I told them I would go with all my heart, if they would undertake to look after my plantation in my absence, and would dispose of it to such as I should direct, if I miscarried.

  • And I'll look after YOU," retorted Tuppence, resenting the manly assertion.

  • But I want the right to look after you, and take care of you.

  • There was one woman who had been very keen to look after me, and chum up with me generally--a Mrs. Vandemeyer.

  • I hope," wrote his correspondent, "that even in the rush of your big business you will sometimes look after Barker.

  • We are quite able to look after ourselves," said Tish with hauteur, and got out of the wagon.

  • I try to look after her, but what can I do?

  • So we left Bill to look after things, and went to call on Mr. Bell.

  • Look after her; Remove from her the means of all annoyance, And still keep eyes upon her.

  • Besides, the knave is handsome, young, and hath all those requisites in him that folly and green minds look after- a pestilent complete knave, and the woman hath found him already.

  • Yes, my dear, Flossie and Freddie may sit together, and I'll look after them as much as I can.

  • There were bundles to carry, weary children to look after, and Mrs. Bobbsey was rather tired also.

  • I wonder you waste time coming over here on the spree when you've got a piece of business like that to look after.

  • Took a special train to Dover when there wasn't any earthly reason for it; travelled with a valet and a courier, when he had no clothes for the valet to look after, and spoke every European language better than his courier.

  • The bim bashi had but just arrived with Hassan Aga from Alexandria, and has as yet had no time to look after a dwelling.

  • I do, tschorbadji," replied he, "and as a father I beg you to look after my children sometimes.

  • That is to say, I may have seen her once or twice, with Osman, when we happened to pass the veiled woman and her husband on the street, and I believe she did stand still and look after us.

  • Chapter 38 We all pulled up at the side of the gully or dry creek, whatever it was, and jumped off our horses, leaving Warrigal to look after them, and ran down the rocky sides of it.

  • The Captain's all right here, when he's me to look after him, though he does swear at me sometimes; but he was took last time.

  • Look after him, whatever you do, or I'll murder you.

  • We had to ride a bit to get home with any kind of light, for we didn't want father to be growling or kicking up a row with Warrigal that we left to look after him.

  • Demetrius, leaving his son to look after Greece, marched to the relief of Macedon, and first of all to oppose Lysimachus.

  • Indicating the cooler] Look after this; tell Lady William I'll be there in a minute.

  • Jerry Mound and the machinist rushed to the engine-room, to look after any of the enemy that might be there, while Tom, Ned and the others ran into the middle cabin.

  • From there it had gone to every building in the plant, being relayed by the telephone operator, whose duty it was to look after that.

  • I had business of my own to look after--perhaps I had no time to lose--and I went about it calmly.

  • Uncle Eb became a great favourite in the family, and David Brower came to know soon that he was 'a good man to work' and could be trusted 'to look after things'.

  • Chapter 27 Uncle Eb and David were away buying cattle, half the week, but Elizabeth Brower was always at home to look after my comfort.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "look after" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great temple; look back; look behind; look nice; look very; look where; look yonder; look you; looked anxiously; looked around; looked like; looked out; looked quite; looked round; looking about; looking back; looking craft; looking individual; looking much; looking place; looking round; looking steadily; looking woman; obedient servant; whilst those; white heat